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hey what's going on everybody welcome back once again to techyv tomorrow for my American viewers hey happy fourth of July that's right it's Independence Day here in America and we've got a nice explosive review for you guys to check out so what are we looking at today well today we're going to be checking out the new Asus GeForce GTX 760 this is their direct cu2 version and it has a lot to offer that's different than the reference card now the reference cards that come out and all the cards are going to share some features they're all based in the 28 nanometer process they're all based off GK 104 they're all going to have 1152 stream processors they're all going to have 96 Tex Units 32 ROPS they're all going to have the two gigabytes of gddr5 memory these are things that are going to be the same across the board some of the differences in the cards though are going to be in the type of cooling used in the type of power requirements and basically how the card looks so with that said let's jump in now and let's check out the a Zeus car which is a totally non reference design of course it does share all those same features that I said before but it has a lot of stuff that makes it unique so let's jump in do the unboxing and let's see what's different about this a Zeus card alright folks so check it out here is the box this is the a Zeus direct Cu 2 overclocked edition now here's basically the front of the box I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that you guys know what that is I'm going to flip the card around in the back of the box though and here are some of the features that actually do matter about the card they're cooling the direct cu2 20% cooler vastly quieter now the CU is the reference mark for copper the heatsink is directly connected to the GPU so that all the heat is dissipated out to the card and kept cool through its open-air design these guys also use direct power plus super alloy power so direct power means all the power is going directly into the card it's being conditioned and the super alloy power is all the components and everything that keep the card running cool and constant at a constant rate making the card last 2.5 times longer and then last but not least GPU tweak this is their overclocking software it works very very well in the Windows environment a few clicks of a button and your up and going so with that said let's check out what comes in the box top cap right here and we'll see there's not a lot of content in the box got the six pin to eight pin power connector that's one of the difference in the car as well we'll get to that most of the cards that you see out of the market require two six pins or a six pin and an eight pin this card actually only requires a single eight pin power connector something different there so let's go ahead here's everything that comes in the box there's really not a lot of content you get the driver GPU the speed setup you guys get the cables and now we'll get to the card itself so I'm going to bring this up you guys can see right off the bat it's got the ROG color scheme we've got the black and red going we have two fans hence the direct see you to the two means there are two fans underneath that you guys can see all the beginning of the cooling apparatus all the aluminum fins are underneath there as we flip to the side you guys can see all the heat pipes now this is an open-air design which means that this card actually does rely on your case having good air flow to keep cool all the heat will be dissipated away from your GPU but it'll be into your system your systems air flow will blow all that out and keep the system running cool as well here at the bottom we see the PCI interface flip it around you guys can see it's a dual slot design so it's going to take up two slots in your computer once again we see more of the aluminum heat fins here in the back I'm going to flip the card around we see the direct see you too and here's something different right here in the card we see the power requirements of this card are only a single 8 pin unlike most other cards which like I said previously required two six pins or a six and eight pin that's pretty interesting in itself I'm going to flip it around the card to the back first first we'll take a look at the two sli fingers here on top you can only do 3-way SLI with these cards not four-way just want to mention that as well then right here we see the 1 2 3 4 screws these are used to remove the cooling apparatus so you just remove these screws right here and you can pull the entire cooling apparatus off now here in the back we the direct power this is specific to only a Zeus cards and it's one of the things that actually helps the card run a lot better last but not least I'm going to flip it around the back let you guys see the rear i/o to DV is standard HDMI standard DisplayPort now before we actually get into it and do our testing and stuff like that I want to talk to you guys about a couple of things that we did with the card before we get into the testing we actually ran the card at standard and then we also increased the clock speed and the memory bandwidth by a hundred megahertz as far as our temps went we had a minimum temperature of 29 Celsius and a maximum temperature of 60 Celsius and the overclocked max was 67 Celsius because of the cooling the maximum GPU boost though was actually 1228 megahertz even though we said it at 1170 megahertz due to the superior cooling and with that said let's jump in and rock out with our spock out all right folks so there you guys have it everything to do with the new Asus GeForce GTX 760 now a lot of people are going to say oh you know why do I really still want to get this card well you guys understand the cooling of the card is what really matters now on NVIDIA cards the way the GPU boost works it works up how cool the card runs so the cooler the card runs and obviously the better the boost we were able to increase the card by a hundred megahertz on both the memory and the clock speed and we got very good results maximum temps that we got were 69 Celsius that's really awesome when compared to the reference card which actually ran about 18 to 20 Celsius hotter in some instances which is actually really quite crazy so that's pretty much it folks you guys seen the card you guys see what it is it's coming to market at about 260 dollars so that's a really good price about ten dollars more than your standard reference Edition card so I think at the end of the day this is definitely an editor's choice product I'm Miller we'll see you guys back around techo tomorrow for more tech goodness