Part 1 - KFA2 GTX 980Ti HOF unboxing
The Setup and Benchmarks of the BCI Express 3 Nvidia Graphics Card
As we began to set up the BCI Express 3 Nvidia graphics card, it became clear that this was going to be an exciting test. With SLI support and a range of other features such as OpenCL and OpenGL 4.4, this card had the potential to deliver exceptional performance.
We started by checking if the card is SLI ready and running GPU-Z on these cards. The results showed that the ASIC quality on this card was 76.1% and 76.2%, which is a good indication of its overclockability. This is comparable to other high-end graphics cards that we have tested in the past, with scores ranging from 60-80%. In our tests, these two cards scored right in the middle of that range.
One of the unique features of this card is the BIOS settings. The base boost clock tables present in the BIOS on these cards are more extensive than what we've seen on other cards. However, it's worth noting that taking advantage of some of the higher settings may require pushing past 1.3 volts, which is not recommended unless you're using liquid cooling or liquid nitrogen cooling.
Before moving on to the benchmarks, let's take a look at the factory overclock of this card. The boost clock was set at 1291 MHz, and we were able to push it up to 1506 MHz on air cooling. This is impressive, especially considering that our test rig doesn't have any extra cooling beyond the fans on the graphics cards.
For those who want a car that's basically overclocked from the factory without having to fiddle with it, this card seems like a good choice. With its out-of-the-box 1291 MHz boost clock and stable performance at 1506 MHz, it's hard to argue against buying it straight away. However, if you're looking for ultimate flexibility and customization, you may want to consider pushing the limits of overclocking.
As we began running our benchmarks, it became clear that this card is capable of delivering exceptional performance even with a single card. We used the full PowerPoints from the website at TechSyndicate.com for a more in-depth look at these results, and also ran some additional tests to see how this card performs in SLI mode.
One of the most impressive aspects of this card's performance is its ability to deliver buttery smooth 4K goodness. With our Korean Monitor and this card working together seamlessly, we were able to achieve frame rates that were truly exceptional. We'll be publishing a follow-up video where we dive deeper into these benchmarks and explore the setup and build for this system.
Throughout this process, we've been impressed with Nvidia's commitment to providing high-quality graphics cards that deliver exceptional performance out of the box. As always, we're grateful for the opportunity to work with them and share our findings with you. If you have any questions or feedback about this card or any other topics, please don't hesitate to reach out in the forums at TechSyndicate.com.
The BCI Express 3 Nvidia Graphics Card is a solid choice for those looking for a high-end graphics solution that delivers exceptional performance without requiring extensive tweaking. With its impressive factory overclock and stable performance, it's hard to argue against buying this card straight away. We'll continue to monitor the market and provide updates on any new developments with this product.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enon the menu today we've got the 980 tii Hall of Fame Edition from KFA 2 or glax depending on what part of the world you're in but KFA 2 because that's what my boxes say let's not hassle the Hof H and we've got two for one for you today um we've got the unboxing and the overview but in this video we're going to you know do that the unboxing the overview but also linked in the description uh below is a build video with not one but two of these and that's what you see on the desk there in front of me so this build that we have here if you want to learn more about that in the the gaming and The Buttery smooth 4K goodness of this amazing Korean 4k monitor that is really Dirt Cheap so 40 in it's insane 4K and 40 in why do you want that the reason is that you don't have to use display scaling in Windows at 4K at 40 in or 39 in in this case is approximately the same pixel density as 27 in with a resolution of 2560 x40 what that means is that the physical size of stuff on the screen with no display scaling on this monitor is about the same as a 27in monitor with a resolution of 2560 X 1440 that means you can run this without display scaling and really enjoy all of the real estate that you get from 4K of course gaming at 4K it's going to be a little bit of a challenge you can game at 1080p that upscales perfectly and it's very sharp but I'm a crazy person and I want to game at 4K and I want to game at 4K with buttery smooth frame rates and these are going to do it so you guys know that I've been rocking out with this mon Monitor and I saw that KFA 2 was readying these you know Hall of Fame edition cards for release and so I sent an email asking um for two loners to see if I could finally have a satisfying 4K gaming experience I don't want to spoil it for you but I may have to buy these cards for my home system because it was that good you guys may have seen some of the gaming Insanity from the beer games beer channel uh if you're not a subscriber there you should go subscribe but I'd never yet seen 4K games in such buttery smooth goodness until this set up so this was really a treat to work on but without further Ado let's unbox and take a look and see what we're going to deal with in the Box you get two power adapters a VGA adapter and some other knickknacks like the installation CD the graphics card itself is a massive three slot card so if you're going to run this in SLI like we do then you're going to want to make sure that the motherboard that you have will support that and you're also going to want want to make sure that your case especially for using like an ITX case will support a three slot wide card even though it's only got a two slot back plane I think that's actually a nice feature instead of having a three slot back plate it's a two slot back plate really it's about a 2 and 1/2 wide card but you could never sandwich this thing in and have it be able to breathe so it needs the extra room to breathe and you can kind of see that on our setup test motherboard here so you want to make sure that the PCI Express layout on your motherboard is sufficient to handle basically a triple a triple slot wide card or triple slot setup if you're going to use two of these in SLI of course if you're only going to use one it doesn't really matter you can use this with ITX micro ATX or whatever you'll be fine at the back we've got HDMI 2.0 three display port 1.2 connections and one DVID plus analog Port that's good news if you're running VGA and that's also good news if you're running one of the cheap Korean monitors that we've advertised in the past the 27 in 2560 X 1440 monitors that have the dual link DVI connection this has got one dual link DVI connection if you get two of those you'll have to pick up a display port to dual link DVI adapter they make those they're about 35 bucks on eBay it's a good deal and that'll let you drive two 27in monitors at 2560 X 1440 if that's what you're running and your your monitors don't have that actually the the only thing that's not really on the market right now is a really good HDMI 2.0 to display port 1.2 adapter and that's really down to the crazy Draconian DRM or copy protection that's on HDMI 2.0 and that's also one of the problems that HDMI 2.0 has problems at 4K with 444 chroma on HDMI 2.0 if you want to run 4K 60 HZ chroma 444 even HDMI 2.0 struggles with that a little bit and I think that's one of the reasons AMD left out HDMI 2.0 on their cards but let's stick to the matter at hand so Nidia blesses support for up to four monitors on these cards so that's a nice touch you could run all three display ports and then either the HDMI or the DVID or some combination thereof the clear winner with the way that this card is set up though are people that want to run 4K and people that want to run surround gaming so if you're going to run three monitors especially three 1080p monitors a single card has got the horsepower to push 1080p on three monitors in most games in a surround gaming setup and if that's something you guys want to see especially with these cards let us know in the comments and on the Forum because maybe a surround gaming thing would be be the thing to do for the design aesthetic we've got a solid back plate with a metallic aluminum finish a white PCB and a silver and white heat sink some have found the heat sink to be a little too blingy and garish and I'll confess that I myself am wishing for a more minimalist fan assembly but this assembly gets the job done now the three fan setup is 2 80 mm fans and one 90 mm fan there are four 8 mm heat pipes and three 6mm heat pipes and that's a total of seven nickel plated heat pipes that are that are on this it has a copper base and it has an integrated mosfet heat sink that is attached to the same you know sort of cooler assembly with the heat pipes at the back is also a turbo button that by default throws the fans into overdrive when I was overclocking I used it to toggle between 100% fan mode and then the thermal Target power mode when I was really pushing these cards hard and then I would sort of start to see if I was getting artifacting and things like that then I could tap the button before the graphics card actually crashed or before anything bad happened and if the artifacting cleared up then I knew that I was probably looking at a heat problem as opposed to a stability problem or some type of wall with the hardware where even though I'm keeping the card cool it's just not going to overclock at that frequency and I could see in gaming if you especially if you got an overclock that you're just you know doing a particular game or you're playing online and something weird happens or you start to get an artifact especially after a really long gaming session you wouldn't have to alt Tab out of the game or do anything assuming that you could reach the back of your computer really easy the button does make it a little problematic to install in a case I would recommend that you push the button in when you're installing it into the case depending on U especially smaller cases like an ITX case where you kind of have to maneuver the card in a little bit uh it's a neat feature if you're into that as far as buttons go but this is the only card that I know of it has a mechanical button like this for this kind of thing on the back of the graphics card so if you're looking for that this card got it so now this is an interesting piece of Kit the 980 tii in general is one of the most overclockable cards that we've seen in a long time people are regularly hitting 1400 MHz with non-reference 980 ties and this card was no exception for us in fact we hit a stable boost clock of 1506 out of the box basically was just turning the fans up we didn't even have to fiddle with the voltage all that much although to get it stable at 15.06 we did have to take it up just a little bit but you wouldn't want to run more than 1.3 volts on this card with just air cooling anyway so keep that in mind the nice thing about this card is that out of the box the Boost clock is 12291 and the memory clock is 1753 so if you don't want to fool with anything you don't want to fiddle with anything and you basically want it to be reliable at those speeds you're going to get almost 1,300 MHz out of the box when you know I'd say the typical overclock on one of these is maybe 1,400 MHz with uh you know good after market Cooling and is pretty stable although 1400 MHz can be a little unstable I mean you can get through fire strike but you know if you've got an hour and a half 2 hour long gaming session the aftermarket cooler has got to be really good but we hit 1506 and we played GTA 5 for like 2 and 1 half 3 hours it was basically okay now the customizable top HF LED uh has a controllable blinking frequency and brightness within the GeForce experience software which is the you know the same that we've experienced on on other cards in the the previous non tie edition of the 980 so that works out pretty well this is an 8-phase GPU plus two-phase memory power design it's an IR 3555 UH 60 amp output power delivery now if you've been living under a rock and you're not really sure what the features of the 980 tie chipset platform thing are that Nvidia is pushing what Nvidia is saying or the main features of the 980 tie is that you get the dynamic super resolution meaning that if you have a 1080p monitor or a 2560 monitor instead of using msaa and all this other an anti-a leasing stuff they'll actually render the game at a higher resolution and then down sample it for your monitor and that actually has a much better look to it than anti-aliasing so if you're somebody who really likes the look of anti-aliasing you really should take a look at Dynamic super resolution because it works a lot better and it looks a lot better um I'm not really somebody that really likes anti-aliasing I I've tended to run games at Native resolution as much as possible like I'd almost rather have medium settings at Native resolution as opposed to high settings at a lower resolution than my monitor can really handle but when I have used anti- aing it's just been in a very small setting but I've been sort of delightfully surprised by Dynamic super resolution that's sort of the first time that I've used it I know that it's it's been on prior cards but these cards have the horsepower to really push it and you know on this 4k monitor I'm I was really kind of split because we did this SLI setup because I really wanted to push the pixels of 4K and when we were having some problems with the SLI setup in the beginning I was just messing around with one card and one card at uh doing the 4K Dynamic super resolution with mediumish settings scaled down to 1080P and then rendered on this actually worked out pretty good it it actually was not terrible so I was actually kind of surprised by that I think if I was still running a 2560 X 1440 monitor that would probably look better than any any of the anti-aliasing or any of the other features like that uh it also has Nvidia Global illumination it has the Nvidia Gameworks stuff uh the game stream technology for you know the shield and that kind of thing the GPU Boost 2.0 which is this sort of dynamic overclocking physx of course adaptive vertical syn and vide surround support for directx12 although we're running Windows 10 on this and directx12 uh did not come up in the benchmarks for some reason so I'm not sure if the benchmarks are not fully updated or what exactly the deal was it did seem like that there was some uh direct some of direct X12 was there in the sense that we were able to do some benchmark with like the API overhead tests but I'm not really sure that I saw a directx12 an actual Graphics Benchmark in the setup so not really sure I'm going to get into that more and you might see more about that in the second video so this video is really more about the unboxing the hardware and by the time we get done with the second video which is linked in the description so you're going to get both of these at the same time I'll probably know more about what's going on with that so check that video if you want to learn more about that and of course it's it's SLI ready and we've got the SLI set up this is BCI Express 3 open GL 4.4 support open CL support Nvidia Shield support and of course Nvidia g-sync is supported so that's all the Nvidia stuff now running GPU Z on these the Asic report on these was that the Asic quality on this was 76.1 and 76.2% quality which is good I think we've been seeing anywhere from 60 to 80% on the 980 ties that we've been testing and this is sort of a test in GPU that's I think supposed to be a rough indicator of exactly how overclockable the cards are and so ours scored basically 76.1 and 76.2% pretty good should be pretty overclockable and they basically were they were stable around 1506 they worked out pretty well Factory overclock of 1291 works out so let's take a quick look at the BIOS on these this is the base boost clock tables that are present in the BIOS on these cards and these cards have more entries than we've seen though it seems like to take advantage of some of the higher things in the table you'd want to put push past 1.3 volts but I would really recommend not pushing past 1.3 volts unless you're on liquid cooling or liquid nitrogen cooling I just thought it was interesting and that I would share that you can download the information from the BIOS on the actual card and the number of entries on this particular card there are quite a few more than the other cards that we've looked at so far so I don't really know what to make of that I just thought I'd mentioned it maybe somebody who knows more can educate me in the comments I don't know or head on over to the Forum something let me know what that's about so let's take a look at some of the benchmarks real quick I'm just going to run through these really quick the full PowerPoints over on the website at Tech syndicate.com and I'd suggest that you go look at them there because video format for benchmarks is sort of crazy if this is your thing though you'll definitely want to check out the other video in the description it's the SLI setup with two cards so this card really impresses with its out of the box 1291 overclock 1291 boost clock overclock it impresses even more that we're able to push to 1506 on air cooling on our test rig which doesn't have a lot of extra cooling other than the fans on the graphics cards so overall it's pretty stable it worked really well now the cards do come at a premium price I think but if you don't want to fiddle around with overclocking and you want a car that's basically overclocked from the factory that's that's good to go I mean it's within 100 MHz of the magical you know 1,400 that everybody's shooting for on a 980 tie if you want to buy it and be done with it and have something that's stable good from now till the end of time this seems like a good choice you don't have to fiddle with it and you can sink hours and hours and hours into fiddling with the overclock to get something that's stable and is actually overclocked but this out of the box it's basically 90% as good as you're going to get on a 980 tie so and you still got some head room to fiddle around if you want so overall seems like a win-win now even though the performance was really good with a single card we wanted to push it more and you know I called them and they were kind enough to send us too cuz I was like have got this idea I've got this Korean Monitor and I really want to push it to 4K and I want buttery smooth 4K goodness and so they're like all right we'll loan you to it'll be fine and so that's what we have for our setup so if you want to see the second part of this video where we do the benchmarks and the setup and the build for this click the link in the description below and you can watch part two it's actually online at the same time as this one hopefully at least within 5 minutes so um probably by the time you've made it to this part of the video the other one's already live and the link is in the description so you should go watch that and if you have any questions or you're going to do this or something crazy happened or you know you've got feedback good or bad let us know in the forums at Tech syndicate.com I'm wendle and I'll see you thereon the menu today we've got the 980 tii Hall of Fame Edition from KFA 2 or glax depending on what part of the world you're in but KFA 2 because that's what my boxes say let's not hassle the Hof H and we've got two for one for you today um we've got the unboxing and the overview but in this video we're going to you know do that the unboxing the overview but also linked in the description uh below is a build video with not one but two of these and that's what you see on the desk there in front of me so this build that we have here if you want to learn more about that in the the gaming and The Buttery smooth 4K goodness of this amazing Korean 4k monitor that is really Dirt Cheap so 40 in it's insane 4K and 40 in why do you want that the reason is that you don't have to use display scaling in Windows at 4K at 40 in or 39 in in this case is approximately the same pixel density as 27 in with a resolution of 2560 x40 what that means is that the physical size of stuff on the screen with no display scaling on this monitor is about the same as a 27in monitor with a resolution of 2560 X 1440 that means you can run this without display scaling and really enjoy all of the real estate that you get from 4K of course gaming at 4K it's going to be a little bit of a challenge you can game at 1080p that upscales perfectly and it's very sharp but I'm a crazy person and I want to game at 4K and I want to game at 4K with buttery smooth frame rates and these are going to do it so you guys know that I've been rocking out with this mon Monitor and I saw that KFA 2 was readying these you know Hall of Fame edition cards for release and so I sent an email asking um for two loners to see if I could finally have a satisfying 4K gaming experience I don't want to spoil it for you but I may have to buy these cards for my home system because it was that good you guys may have seen some of the gaming Insanity from the beer games beer channel uh if you're not a subscriber there you should go subscribe but I'd never yet seen 4K games in such buttery smooth goodness until this set up so this was really a treat to work on but without further Ado let's unbox and take a look and see what we're going to deal with in the Box you get two power adapters a VGA adapter and some other knickknacks like the installation CD the graphics card itself is a massive three slot card so if you're going to run this in SLI like we do then you're going to want to make sure that the motherboard that you have will support that and you're also going to want want to make sure that your case especially for using like an ITX case will support a three slot wide card even though it's only got a two slot back plane I think that's actually a nice feature instead of having a three slot back plate it's a two slot back plate really it's about a 2 and 1/2 wide card but you could never sandwich this thing in and have it be able to breathe so it needs the extra room to breathe and you can kind of see that on our setup test motherboard here so you want to make sure that the PCI Express layout on your motherboard is sufficient to handle basically a triple a triple slot wide card or triple slot setup if you're going to use two of these in SLI of course if you're only going to use one it doesn't really matter you can use this with ITX micro ATX or whatever you'll be fine at the back we've got HDMI 2.0 three display port 1.2 connections and one DVID plus analog Port that's good news if you're running VGA and that's also good news if you're running one of the cheap Korean monitors that we've advertised in the past the 27 in 2560 X 1440 monitors that have the dual link DVI connection this has got one dual link DVI connection if you get two of those you'll have to pick up a display port to dual link DVI adapter they make those they're about 35 bucks on eBay it's a good deal and that'll let you drive two 27in monitors at 2560 X 1440 if that's what you're running and your your monitors don't have that actually the the only thing that's not really on the market right now is a really good HDMI 2.0 to display port 1.2 adapter and that's really down to the crazy Draconian DRM or copy protection that's on HDMI 2.0 and that's also one of the problems that HDMI 2.0 has problems at 4K with 444 chroma on HDMI 2.0 if you want to run 4K 60 HZ chroma 444 even HDMI 2.0 struggles with that a little bit and I think that's one of the reasons AMD left out HDMI 2.0 on their cards but let's stick to the matter at hand so Nidia blesses support for up to four monitors on these cards so that's a nice touch you could run all three display ports and then either the HDMI or the DVID or some combination thereof the clear winner with the way that this card is set up though are people that want to run 4K and people that want to run surround gaming so if you're going to run three monitors especially three 1080p monitors a single card has got the horsepower to push 1080p on three monitors in most games in a surround gaming setup and if that's something you guys want to see especially with these cards let us know in the comments and on the Forum because maybe a surround gaming thing would be be the thing to do for the design aesthetic we've got a solid back plate with a metallic aluminum finish a white PCB and a silver and white heat sink some have found the heat sink to be a little too blingy and garish and I'll confess that I myself am wishing for a more minimalist fan assembly but this assembly gets the job done now the three fan setup is 2 80 mm fans and one 90 mm fan there are four 8 mm heat pipes and three 6mm heat pipes and that's a total of seven nickel plated heat pipes that are that are on this it has a copper base and it has an integrated mosfet heat sink that is attached to the same you know sort of cooler assembly with the heat pipes at the back is also a turbo button that by default throws the fans into overdrive when I was overclocking I used it to toggle between 100% fan mode and then the thermal Target power mode when I was really pushing these cards hard and then I would sort of start to see if I was getting artifacting and things like that then I could tap the button before the graphics card actually crashed or before anything bad happened and if the artifacting cleared up then I knew that I was probably looking at a heat problem as opposed to a stability problem or some type of wall with the hardware where even though I'm keeping the card cool it's just not going to overclock at that frequency and I could see in gaming if you especially if you got an overclock that you're just you know doing a particular game or you're playing online and something weird happens or you start to get an artifact especially after a really long gaming session you wouldn't have to alt Tab out of the game or do anything assuming that you could reach the back of your computer really easy the button does make it a little problematic to install in a case I would recommend that you push the button in when you're installing it into the case depending on U especially smaller cases like an ITX case where you kind of have to maneuver the card in a little bit uh it's a neat feature if you're into that as far as buttons go but this is the only card that I know of it has a mechanical button like this for this kind of thing on the back of the graphics card so if you're looking for that this card got it so now this is an interesting piece of Kit the 980 tii in general is one of the most overclockable cards that we've seen in a long time people are regularly hitting 1400 MHz with non-reference 980 ties and this card was no exception for us in fact we hit a stable boost clock of 1506 out of the box basically was just turning the fans up we didn't even have to fiddle with the voltage all that much although to get it stable at 15.06 we did have to take it up just a little bit but you wouldn't want to run more than 1.3 volts on this card with just air cooling anyway so keep that in mind the nice thing about this card is that out of the box the Boost clock is 12291 and the memory clock is 1753 so if you don't want to fool with anything you don't want to fiddle with anything and you basically want it to be reliable at those speeds you're going to get almost 1,300 MHz out of the box when you know I'd say the typical overclock on one of these is maybe 1,400 MHz with uh you know good after market Cooling and is pretty stable although 1400 MHz can be a little unstable I mean you can get through fire strike but you know if you've got an hour and a half 2 hour long gaming session the aftermarket cooler has got to be really good but we hit 1506 and we played GTA 5 for like 2 and 1 half 3 hours it was basically okay now the customizable top HF LED uh has a controllable blinking frequency and brightness within the GeForce experience software which is the you know the same that we've experienced on on other cards in the the previous non tie edition of the 980 so that works out pretty well this is an 8-phase GPU plus two-phase memory power design it's an IR 3555 UH 60 amp output power delivery now if you've been living under a rock and you're not really sure what the features of the 980 tie chipset platform thing are that Nvidia is pushing what Nvidia is saying or the main features of the 980 tie is that you get the dynamic super resolution meaning that if you have a 1080p monitor or a 2560 monitor instead of using msaa and all this other an anti-a leasing stuff they'll actually render the game at a higher resolution and then down sample it for your monitor and that actually has a much better look to it than anti-aliasing so if you're somebody who really likes the look of anti-aliasing you really should take a look at Dynamic super resolution because it works a lot better and it looks a lot better um I'm not really somebody that really likes anti-aliasing I I've tended to run games at Native resolution as much as possible like I'd almost rather have medium settings at Native resolution as opposed to high settings at a lower resolution than my monitor can really handle but when I have used anti- aing it's just been in a very small setting but I've been sort of delightfully surprised by Dynamic super resolution that's sort of the first time that I've used it I know that it's it's been on prior cards but these cards have the horsepower to really push it and you know on this 4k monitor I'm I was really kind of split because we did this SLI setup because I really wanted to push the pixels of 4K and when we were having some problems with the SLI setup in the beginning I was just messing around with one card and one card at uh doing the 4K Dynamic super resolution with mediumish settings scaled down to 1080P and then rendered on this actually worked out pretty good it it actually was not terrible so I was actually kind of surprised by that I think if I was still running a 2560 X 1440 monitor that would probably look better than any any of the anti-aliasing or any of the other features like that uh it also has Nvidia Global illumination it has the Nvidia Gameworks stuff uh the game stream technology for you know the shield and that kind of thing the GPU Boost 2.0 which is this sort of dynamic overclocking physx of course adaptive vertical syn and vide surround support for directx12 although we're running Windows 10 on this and directx12 uh did not come up in the benchmarks for some reason so I'm not sure if the benchmarks are not fully updated or what exactly the deal was it did seem like that there was some uh direct some of direct X12 was there in the sense that we were able to do some benchmark with like the API overhead tests but I'm not really sure that I saw a directx12 an actual Graphics Benchmark in the setup so not really sure I'm going to get into that more and you might see more about that in the second video so this video is really more about the unboxing the hardware and by the time we get done with the second video which is linked in the description so you're going to get both of these at the same time I'll probably know more about what's going on with that so check that video if you want to learn more about that and of course it's it's SLI ready and we've got the SLI set up this is BCI Express 3 open GL 4.4 support open CL support Nvidia Shield support and of course Nvidia g-sync is supported so that's all the Nvidia stuff now running GPU Z on these the Asic report on these was that the Asic quality on this was 76.1 and 76.2% quality which is good I think we've been seeing anywhere from 60 to 80% on the 980 ties that we've been testing and this is sort of a test in GPU that's I think supposed to be a rough indicator of exactly how overclockable the cards are and so ours scored basically 76.1 and 76.2% pretty good should be pretty overclockable and they basically were they were stable around 1506 they worked out pretty well Factory overclock of 1291 works out so let's take a quick look at the BIOS on these this is the base boost clock tables that are present in the BIOS on these cards and these cards have more entries than we've seen though it seems like to take advantage of some of the higher things in the table you'd want to put push past 1.3 volts but I would really recommend not pushing past 1.3 volts unless you're on liquid cooling or liquid nitrogen cooling I just thought it was interesting and that I would share that you can download the information from the BIOS on the actual card and the number of entries on this particular card there are quite a few more than the other cards that we've looked at so far so I don't really know what to make of that I just thought I'd mentioned it maybe somebody who knows more can educate me in the comments I don't know or head on over to the Forum something let me know what that's about so let's take a look at some of the benchmarks real quick I'm just going to run through these really quick the full PowerPoints over on the website at Tech syndicate.com and I'd suggest that you go look at them there because video format for benchmarks is sort of crazy if this is your thing though you'll definitely want to check out the other video in the description it's the SLI setup with two cards so this card really impresses with its out of the box 1291 overclock 1291 boost clock overclock it impresses even more that we're able to push to 1506 on air cooling on our test rig which doesn't have a lot of extra cooling other than the fans on the graphics cards so overall it's pretty stable it worked really well now the cards do come at a premium price I think but if you don't want to fiddle around with overclocking and you want a car that's basically overclocked from the factory that's that's good to go I mean it's within 100 MHz of the magical you know 1,400 that everybody's shooting for on a 980 tie if you want to buy it and be done with it and have something that's stable good from now till the end of time this seems like a good choice you don't have to fiddle with it and you can sink hours and hours and hours into fiddling with the overclock to get something that's stable and is actually overclocked but this out of the box it's basically 90% as good as you're going to get on a 980 tie so and you still got some head room to fiddle around if you want so overall seems like a win-win now even though the performance was really good with a single card we wanted to push it more and you know I called them and they were kind enough to send us too cuz I was like have got this idea I've got this Korean Monitor and I really want to push it to 4K and I want buttery smooth 4K goodness and so they're like all right we'll loan you to it'll be fine and so that's what we have for our setup so if you want to see the second part of this video where we do the benchmarks and the setup and the build for this click the link in the description below and you can watch part two it's actually online at the same time as this one hopefully at least within 5 minutes so um probably by the time you've made it to this part of the video the other one's already live and the link is in the description so you should go watch that and if you have any questions or you're going to do this or something crazy happened or you know you've got feedback good or bad let us know in the forums at Tech syndicate.com I'm wendle and I'll see you there\n"