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this is a product I've been wanting to take a look at for a while this is the

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Zotac GeForce GTX 480 amp Edition so

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it's a GTX 480 But it includes an aftermarket cooler and Zotac was

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actually one of if not the first to Market with an aftermarket cool GTX 480

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something that it really benefits from because it'll run quite a bit cooler

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quite a bit quieter so it'll go around have a look at the back it's the same

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usual uh marketing stuff on the back of the box you know what this one's going

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to be all about having a look at the card itself so let's get this baby

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opened up and see what Zotac includes

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with the GTX 480 amp edition first of

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all this is quite an attractive looking card it has a dual turbine VGA cooler

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which basically looks like uh two 92 mm

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fans you can see part of the fan is actually covered by the Shroud a little

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bit there it's got kind of a neat graphic on the front of it the one thing

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you'll notice right away about about this cooler is that it is triple slot so

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you see the back plate is dual slot you've got one more slot worth of cooler

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here and that's something that you will have to sacrifice in order to use the

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amp Edition card other than that it is a

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stock reference GTX 480 so you can see right here they haven't changed the PCB

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to account for the different cooler uh here I'll show you a stock uh stock

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cooled Zotac gtx480 over here so you can

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see the back of the card will look identical

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okay but it's all about the changes that they've made to the cooler so I wouldn't

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expect any better overclocking results on The Amp Edition because of it being

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cherry-picked or anything like that but I would definitely expect better

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overclocking results due to the additional GPU cooling so you can see

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that we've got uh I'm actually just going to cheat a little bit and count

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them here 1 2 3 4 five heat pipes coming

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off of the GPU contact area so one of them comes up this way the next one goes

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up uh that way and runs all the way to the end so three of the heat pipes run

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down to the end over here and then two of them run down to these ends one here

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and one here one disadvantage of the amp series cooler is that it does not

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exhaust the heat out of the case like the stock cooler does so you can see

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here all of that heat is being exhausted by the fan out the back of the case but

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that is not the case with the amp so you will have to make sure you have a well

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ventilated case but I mean if you're buying a almost $600 graphics card you

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uh should probably get a decent case to go along with it one thing I really like

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about the amp is you can see they've got a custom p uh custom heat sink under the

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amp cooler for the GPU so that's going to take care of all of your RAM all of

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your vrms all of that good stuff and uh

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compared to the aftermarket solution that I'll be comparing the amp to uh

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it's quite a bit more elegant so I just wanted to show it very briefly next to

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the GED Solutions icy Vision so I'm just

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going to move the Box away uh in terms of accessories you got a couple Molex to

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PCIe a dual PCI a six pin to eight pin you got a mini HDMI to HDMI a DVI to VGA

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you got some documentation and let's get

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back to the card because that is what it's all about for this particular video

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so here's the IC Vision here's the amp

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and here is a stock cooled card

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okay so all of them look pretty similar

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both the amp and the IC Vision I'm going to look at them from the side but both

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of these are going to be three slot coolers so you're not going to be able

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to make use of the slot next to the card nor the next one but a lot of SLI

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compatible motherboards that's not going to be a problem as long as you don't

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intend to install uh any other cards besides your graphics cards they both

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include 92 mm fans dual ones uh the icy

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Vision you can see has a similar number of heat pipes it's got five heat pipes

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but they are arranged a little bit differently and it also has a not as

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elegant a solution for cooling all the other parts of the card so you can see

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you got to kind of Stack up a bunch of different heat sinks on the vrms you got

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these little wussy memory heat sinks down here now it's probably going to be

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perfectly adequate I wouldn't worry about the card being damaged in any way

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but I do like this solution better where you got one nice big unisync style thing

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and it's cooling all the different parts of the card it's nice and beefy there so

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just like the normal gtx480 it uses 18 pin and one 16 pin connector and other

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than that I guess there's not really a whole lot to say thank you for checking

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out my unboxing of the Zotac amp Edition GTX 480 and hopefully I'll have a

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temperature comparison up for you in the next little bit here actually one thing

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I forgot to include about the amp Edition card is a quick cost comparison

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so you can see that the regular Zotac GTX 480 is uh 519 after rebate so that's

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actually $549.99 before rebate and then

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the amp Edition card is actually only another uh $30 uh before rebate and then

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only another $60 after rebate whereas if

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you grab an IC oh shoot I lost my search result whereas if you buy a regular 480

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with an icy Vision you're actually looking at about the same price except

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that you have to do the work of installing the aftermarket cooler so if

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you are buying a gtx480 and you do intend to install uh a big uh three slot

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aftermarket cooler on it I see no reason not to go with an amp Edition cuz it

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does come with a lifetime warranty and it saves you the trouble of installing

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that cooler on it it also means that the warranty will cover you for the

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aftermarket Cooling