so it may seem like cameraman has pointed the camera in the wrong
direction it may seem that way but in
actuality he's looking for Hawks so you know scanning the sky all
that good stuff but he would be more likely to
find a hawk if he had a look at the box that I'm opening up right here this is
the MSI GTX 560 TI
Hawk yes so this has a few things going
for it over the GTS GTX 560 twin frozer
2 so if you remember on the 460 the hawk
version of the card featured a twin frozer 2 cooler well the hawk version of
the GTX 560 one-ups that and features a twin frozer 3 cooler with propeller
blades so MSI claims up to 20% more air flow with a propeller blade versus a
standard bladed fan we also get a copy of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
which presumably is a Tomb Raider game I don't know I haven't even heard of this
game before okay ready for 3D Mark 11 so that means it is direct X11 it has 1 gig
of gddr5 it has oh nice it has Mimi HDMI
woo mini HDMI I'm sure is what they meant to say as well as dual dual dvii
GeForce Cuda NVIDIA SLI fizx by NVIDIA
NVIDIA 3D Vision as well as NVIDIA surround if you install two of these bad
boys threeyear warranty in US Canada and Mexico and opening up the box we've got
all of those exclusive MSI features such as military Class 2 using tantalum core
capacitors solid capacitors as well as super farite chokes all of which are
designed to uh stabilize the GPU more make it last longer and make it run
cooler we've also got triple over voltage by afterburner this is a hawk
exclusive feature so you can now adjust the auxiliary voltage as well as the
core and memory voltages in After Burner 8+ one phase pwm design which
delivers more Peak current than the GTX 560 TI uh oh okay and definitely more
than the reference one so I'm assuming they're talking about the uh uh 560 TI
twin frozer 2 PS switch okay so you can switch between performance and silence
this is kind of like the cooler that was on the uh Intel extreme Edition uh
latest generation cooler that came out with their six cores V check points
which we're used to seeing on Hawk edition cards so you can measure your voltages directly all right so the twin
frozer 3 cooler is a highdensity heat sink with propeller blades uses multiple
heat pipes a nickel plated copper base as well as a direct contact design here
we go so they're saying it absolutely smokes the reference cooler which it
probably does because the Twin frozer
series of coolers has an excellent reputation for utterly demolishing any
reference cooler that you will find on pretty much any graphics card all right
in terms of accessories we have a couple dual Molex to six pin PCIe adapters just
in case you need them we've got our V checkpoint cables so you can plug those
into the board and then you can plug your multimeter in here find out what
your voltages are running at going to lift this out have a look at what we've
got included in terms of games you know what I actually don't have this game so
I'm not going to give this away I'm going to try it it's a uh hopefully a
steam download cuz if it's not it's probably too much work for me to bother
all right next we have a quick users
guide driver's disc which you shouldn't use uh we've got I don't know some other
piece of paper mini H Mimi HDMI to HDMI
adapter as well as a DVI to VGA adapter
I'm just teasing the boys over at MSI and girls at MSI I'm sure that was a a
very innocent typo and they don't actually think that it's spelled Mimi so
let's go ahead open up this package here there we go there we
go
there's a truck going by so we're not even going to try and
talk all right let's get this plastic off here got to love the outdoor
unboxings I know a lot of you don't love the outdoor unboxings but frankly I
don't really care cuz I like them chance to get out of the office for a little
while not to mention the excellent natural light that lends itself well to
uh video augra videography all right just going to
finish taking off this plastic having a little little bit of trouble there
plastic all right there we go so this is the
twin frozer 3 so as you can see we've got the Dual 80 mm propeller blade fans
we've got a high density heat sink fin
Arrangement okay we've talked about that plenty before that's interesting they
did not call out the super pipes on this card so normally they call out their
super pipes so we got one and two um
incredibly thick heat pipes that are designed you can see those are the ones
that carry the heat furthest away from the GPU so they are more efficient than
the thinner heat pipes because they have to carry the heat out away further you
can see the PCB is stamped MSI Hawk
version 1.2 the reason it's stamped MSI Hawk and not NVIDIA reference is that it
is a completely custom PCB that is how MSI builds in the functionality of the
their auxiliary over voltage their V check points as well as uh uh more P
phases of pwm to deliver cleaner power to your GPU for better overclo
in back here we've got our V check
points so we've got one for the GPU one
for the memory and one for the PLL okay
here we've got our dual six pin PCIe power connectors and then this is
another feature that they did not talk about at all on the packaging but this
brace right here this prevents the GPU from flexing when you have a heavy
cooler installed such as a twin frozer 3 cooler so what that means is that when
you okay basically when you install your graphics card in your system it's
supported only by these screws and the slot itself so what happens is a lot of
the time if you put a heavy cooler on it the board will Flex down from the weight
will this add some extra rigidity to the board because you can see it's bolted in
right here to the screws that go into your case and gives it some more some
more a more solid overall Mount into your chassis Okay so we've covered that
let's have a look at the back of the PCB itself self where we are using
spring-loaded screws to mount the twin frozer 3 cooler we've also got a
standard PCI Express 16x interface which we're pretty much used to seeing at this
point on graphics cards one SLI finger
so that is two-way SLI ready but not three-way or four-way SLI ready that is
a limitation of the GTX 560
gf14 um whatever it's called
thing uh gf14 GPU here we've got a bio
switch that's kind of cool so you can switch between bioses and then I
actually don't know what that is if you guys know what this is let me know it looks like a fan header to me but I
could be wrong in fact I'm pretty sure I'm wrong cuz that would be only three
pins okay hold on let me see if the PCB is labeled and I just can't see it so
there's performance oh here we go oh no this is not a bio switch it's for
performance silent and and one other
mode that's not very well labeled you can see the labels are actually down
here under the switch performance side and reserved oh okay and
then this is something to do with the BIOS it's it's label J BIOS so guys feel
free to leave a comment and let me know what you guys think it is here we go at
the back you can see that there's going to be a little bit of external exhaust
from the Twin frozer 3 but I would not I would definitely not rely on that to do
the bulk of your cooling so you're going to be uh kicking out a fair bit of heat
into your case that's just the reality of these high performance cool coolers
you better have a high performance case that's prepared to move the heat out
here's our dual dvis as well as our Mimi HDMI and I think that's pretty much
everything I have to say about the twin frozer 3 Hawk GTX 560 TI don't forget to
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videos and thanks to MSI for providing us with the GTX 560 TI to check out
looks pretty sweet especially in the sun it's all shiny and
and now we're looking for Hawks up there again we to go C