1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,759 this is a product I've been wanting to take a look at for a while this is the 2 00:00:03,639 --> 00:00:10,519 Zotac GeForce GTX 480 amp Edition so 3 00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:14,920 it's a GTX 480 But it includes an aftermarket cooler and Zotac was 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:20,600 actually one of if not the first to Market with an aftermarket cool GTX 480 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:24,640 something that it really benefits from because it'll run quite a bit cooler 6 00:00:22,359 --> 00:00:29,039 quite a bit quieter so it'll go around have a look at the back it's the same 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:32,719 usual uh marketing stuff on the back of the box you know what this one's going 8 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:38,480 to be all about having a look at the card itself so let's get this baby 9 00:00:34,559 --> 00:00:41,520 opened up and see what Zotac includes 10 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:43,760 with the GTX 480 amp edition first of 11 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:51,120 all this is quite an attractive looking card it has a dual turbine VGA cooler 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:52,920 which basically looks like uh two 92 mm 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,120 fans you can see part of the fan is actually covered by the Shroud a little 14 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:00,079 bit there it's got kind of a neat graphic on the front of it the one thing 15 00:00:58,399 --> 00:01:05,320 you'll notice right away about about this cooler is that it is triple slot so 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:10,400 you see the back plate is dual slot you've got one more slot worth of cooler 17 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:16,200 here and that's something that you will have to sacrifice in order to use the 18 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,880 amp Edition card other than that it is a 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:23,600 stock reference GTX 480 so you can see right here they haven't changed the PCB 20 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:29,479 to account for the different cooler uh here I'll show you a stock uh stock 21 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:31,640 cooled Zotac gtx480 over here so you can 22 00:01:29,479 --> 00:01:36,280 see the back of the card will look identical 23 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:41,000 okay but it's all about the changes that they've made to the cooler so I wouldn't 24 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:45,360 expect any better overclocking results on The Amp Edition because of it being 25 00:01:43,399 --> 00:01:49,000 cherry-picked or anything like that but I would definitely expect better 26 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:52,920 overclocking results due to the additional GPU cooling so you can see 27 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:58,479 that we've got uh I'm actually just going to cheat a little bit and count 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,880 them here 1 2 3 4 five heat pipes coming 29 00:01:58,479 --> 00:02:05,159 off of the GPU contact area so one of them comes up this way the next one goes 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,959 up uh that way and runs all the way to the end so three of the heat pipes run 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:13,640 down to the end over here and then two of them run down to these ends one here 32 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:18,040 and one here one disadvantage of the amp series cooler is that it does not 33 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,120 exhaust the heat out of the case like the stock cooler does so you can see 34 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:26,959 here all of that heat is being exhausted by the fan out the back of the case but 35 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:30,400 that is not the case with the amp so you will have to make sure you have a well 36 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:35,480 ventilated case but I mean if you're buying a almost $600 graphics card you 37 00:02:33,599 --> 00:02:39,280 uh should probably get a decent case to go along with it one thing I really like 38 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:45,640 about the amp is you can see they've got a custom p uh custom heat sink under the 39 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:50,640 amp cooler for the GPU so that's going to take care of all of your RAM all of 40 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,519 your vrms all of that good stuff and uh 41 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:57,319 compared to the aftermarket solution that I'll be comparing the amp to uh 42 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:03,280 it's quite a bit more elegant so I just wanted to show it very briefly next to 43 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:05,560 the GED Solutions icy Vision so I'm just 44 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:11,560 going to move the Box away uh in terms of accessories you got a couple Molex to 45 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:18,159 PCIe a dual PCI a six pin to eight pin you got a mini HDMI to HDMI a DVI to VGA 46 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:20,120 you got some documentation and let's get 47 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:26,879 back to the card because that is what it's all about for this particular video 48 00:03:23,799 --> 00:03:31,480 so here's the IC Vision here's the amp 49 00:03:26,879 --> 00:03:34,560 and here is a stock cooled card 50 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:36,519 okay so all of them look pretty similar 51 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:40,000 both the amp and the IC Vision I'm going to look at them from the side but both 52 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:44,519 of these are going to be three slot coolers so you're not going to be able 53 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:48,519 to make use of the slot next to the card nor the next one but a lot of SLI 54 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:52,439 compatible motherboards that's not going to be a problem as long as you don't 55 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:58,480 intend to install uh any other cards besides your graphics cards they both 56 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:00,920 include 92 mm fans dual ones uh the icy 57 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,959 Vision you can see has a similar number of heat pipes it's got five heat pipes 58 00:04:02,599 --> 00:04:10,280 but they are arranged a little bit differently and it also has a not as 59 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:13,799 elegant a solution for cooling all the other parts of the card so you can see 60 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:18,440 you got to kind of Stack up a bunch of different heat sinks on the vrms you got 61 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:22,360 these little wussy memory heat sinks down here now it's probably going to be 62 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:26,680 perfectly adequate I wouldn't worry about the card being damaged in any way 63 00:04:24,919 --> 00:04:31,440 but I do like this solution better where you got one nice big unisync style thing 64 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:37,479 and it's cooling all the different parts of the card it's nice and beefy there so 65 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:42,759 just like the normal gtx480 it uses 18 pin and one 16 pin connector and other 66 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:48,880 than that I guess there's not really a whole lot to say thank you for checking 67 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:53,600 out my unboxing of the Zotac amp Edition GTX 480 and hopefully I'll have a 68 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:57,000 temperature comparison up for you in the next little bit here actually one thing 69 00:04:55,479 --> 00:05:01,479 I forgot to include about the amp Edition card is a quick cost comparison 70 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:09,840 so you can see that the regular Zotac GTX 480 is uh 519 after rebate so that's 71 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,160 actually $549.99 before rebate and then 72 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:20,840 the amp Edition card is actually only another uh $30 uh before rebate and then 73 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:23,759 only another $60 after rebate whereas if 74 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:29,160 you grab an IC oh shoot I lost my search result whereas if you buy a regular 480 75 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,759 with an icy Vision you're actually looking at about the same price except 76 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:37,520 that you have to do the work of installing the aftermarket cooler so if 77 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:43,720 you are buying a gtx480 and you do intend to install uh a big uh three slot 78 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:47,680 aftermarket cooler on it I see no reason not to go with an amp Edition cuz it 79 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:51,479 does come with a lifetime warranty and it saves you the trouble of installing 80 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:57,120 that cooler on it it also means that the warranty will cover you for the 81 00:05:53,639 --> 00:05:57,120 aftermarket Cooling