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Check it out, GTX 285, from EVGA, my
favorite. Awesome-awesome card. |
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first of all, in case you guys don't know
this video has been a little late coming. |
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I think we did it once before but I might
have lost it, or producer Dan lost it, |
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or somebody, I'm sorry, I don't blame
you. Someone might have lost it. Anyway, |
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this is the 285. This is the fastest
single GPU card on the market, |
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and this is the reference design. This is
the one from EVGA, so it's the factory clocks |
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and references and all that good stuff.
A lot of good things to say about this card. |
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First of all, it overclocks like
crazy because it is 55 nm, |
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that's one of the things they
changed from the GTX 280, |
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so it has higher frequencies from
factory, it's faster than factory. |
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There's two-way and three-way SLI,
and if you want to do three of these |
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and three-way SLI it's actually
faster than two GTX 295s, |
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if you're curious at all. Granted,
you have to have three PCI Express slots, |
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you're gonna waste
a little bit more power, but |
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you will get higher benchmarks and
you will get better frame rates as well. |
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And you'll always get that advantage of,
you'll always get better drivers |
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in the future, which your performance
will constantly increase, |
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which is going to happen regardless.
Whenever NVIDIA releases new drivers |
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for these games and for these cards,
you always get a big increase. |
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And one of the reasons I like EVGA
is because they actually release SLI patches |
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so that when new cards come out,
SLI works right off the bat |
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instead of having to wait, you know, three
months for SLI to become available |
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when you have this incredible card,
you have two of them and you can't play |
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this new game that just
came out with SLI. |
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So, very, very good stuff. Let's talk a
little bit about the core clocks on this now. |
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This is the
GT 200B Core on here. |
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It's the same that's in the GTX 280,
it's just shrunken. |
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It's the same that's in the 295s.
It's also the same that's in the 275s, |
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which are a new card.
These are the factory frequency cards. |
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They're 648 MHz core clock. There's 240
shaders that are clocked at 1476, |
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and there's 1 GB of GDDR3, that's at 2484. |
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So, very nice frequencies. This card is
going to require about 550 watts to run. |
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It is more efficient than GTX 280. In turn,
it only has two 6-pin power adapters |
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instead of needing an eight and a six.
That's changed up a little bit. |
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Also, while we're here I'll note,
right there next to it, |
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that is your audio loop cable
for your S/PDIF header. |
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Pretty much, you're going to connect this
from here to your S/PDIF |
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on your motherboard. That's going
to give you 7.1 channels of HD audio |
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over your HDMI cable, which you will use
with the provided dongle. |
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That's great if you want to game,
or if you have a surround sound system, |
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you're gonna do movies, Blu-rays,
this has HDCP support, |
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which is High-bandwidth Digital Content
Protection, to let you do all your Blu-rays, |
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your HDDVDs, if you still have those,
or any HD content you might get off the web. |
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So that's important to know. Now,
besides that, dual link DVIs right there. |
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Those are dual link, so you can do
up to 2560 x 1600. |
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Up to 240 Hz refresh rate on a single plug,
or up to 85 Hz on one of these. |
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At 2048 x 1536. If you're going to do
2560 x 1600, they're going to do |
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60 Hz max refresh rate,
if you have both of them hooked up. |
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7-pin digital S-Video cables, right there. |
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You will probably never use that
but it's there in case you need it. |
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This is where your SLI adapter
will go, right there. |
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So your SLI bridge comes
with your motherboard. |
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If you have an SLI certified motherboard,
don't be looking for it in the box, |
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because it is not there. |
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Also in the box, I will have you note that
you do get two of these 6-pin |
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PCI Express two molex connectors. |
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So, if you want, this is going to transfer
two molexes into one PCI Express. |
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So these are pretty useful.
These do about 100 watts each. |
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Actually, you know,
I think they do 150 watts each. |
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So it's 300 in total they can do.
This is a 206 watt TDP card. |
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There's a little bit more if you overclock
it, and it does about the same. |
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It just adds up double
if you're going to put them in SLI. |
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So, don't worry about that.
Now also included in the case, |
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you're going to get your drivers.
I highly recomment you don't use these. |
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Go to the website and get the latest ones,
because that's what's going to give you |
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the best performance. Now, besides that,
you're pretty used to seeing |
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the rest of the stuff. Obviously physics
is always included on here. |
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CUDA is always included on here. It's part
of the whole NVIDIA parallel processing |
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revolution that they're all about.
You know, GPU or GPGPU, |
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which is General Purpose Graphics
Processing Units, I don't know. |
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So, very popular, you're going
to see that a lot. |
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This will do 3D vision,
the G-Force 3D Vision, |
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which, if you haven't checked
it out is absolutely incredible. |
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It's really fun to use.
And it changes your gaming. |
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It's actually really, non-gimmicky 3D.
It's the first 3D, that's not like, |
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"Oh God, I feel stupid with these glasses on,
and this is retarded." |
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This is like, fun, awesome 3D,
zombies coming at your face in Left 4 Dead. |
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Like, it's really fun
and this is certified for it. |
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This card can do just about
any game in 3D. |
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Also, DirectX 10, obviously ShaderModel 4.0,
OpenGL 2.1, |
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HDCP support, HDMI support, that's all
tied together by the PureVideo HD, |
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which is to give you that great quality
Blu-rays, great quality HDDVDs, |
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or anything that's Hi-Def over the web.
Or you just have a file from camera, |
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it's going to give you extremely
crystal clear playback. |
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Plus the audio is an added bonus. |
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So, really nice card.
It's the EVGA GTX 285. |
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And, don't forget,
GTX, I'm sorry, EVGA, is very nice |
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because a couple things, they give you
24/7 support, so you can call whenever |
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if you have a problem. They give you
a double warranty, which is lifetime. |
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And, they also give you a couple tools,
like the precision overclocking utility, |
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which lets you overclock
very easily. |
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Control the fan speeds manually
and do stuff like that. |
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So a lot of good stuff.
If you have any questions on this card, |
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Email me, I'll see you guys next time. |
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For more information on the EVGA GTX 285,
type in E145-285 |
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into the search engine of
any of these major retailers. |
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For Computer TV, I'm Albert. |
