so guys I've been informed I should keep it down on account of Esther shooting
some kind of Fail video in the room next to me you should subscribe to her
Channel if you want to see her videos it's NC Esther so today I'm going to be
unboxing the palette gForce GTX 580 now
this isn't like your your dad's or your grandpa's GTX 580 this is a somewhat
different GTX 580 first of all it has a dual fan
cooler second of all it has a DisplayPort output and third of all it has
three gigs yes three gigs of memory on a
single single GPU card so it supports
directx11 3D Vision surround fiz X Cuda SLI supports NVIDIA surround without 3D
Vision as well but you'll need two cards for that and this is actually one of the
few situations where I would really recommend a card like this with 3 gigs
of memory and I'll get into that a little bit more why uh later so here are
some logos for all of that stuff that I mentioned before it's compatible with
Windows 7 it bloody well better be if it's a direct X11 ready supposedly okay
there's some kind of sticker there there's the pallette Frog okay there's more branding some more branding no more
frogs yeah we got another frog on the back there's their frog guy yeah yeah
okay what else we got so technical specifications NVIDIA GeForce chipset
open G DirectX okay built for DirectX 11
surround gaming yeah more on that later play in 3D 3D is good it is a PCI
Express 2.0 16x card which we will see when we
open it up and it requires a minimum 600 watt or greater power supply with at
least 12 um rather at least 42 amps on
the 12vt rail remember that's a combined 42 amps
if you have dual 12vt rails and you have one that's like you know 30 and another
that's 30 that's still good enough to be 42
amps all right inside the Box we will
find some stuff mostly we will find foam
no video cards sorry not today I'm just kidding there's a video card in here
okay so there's the GTX 580 uh but I'm just kidding I'm going to
show you guys the accessories first so there is a dual six pin to8 pin PCIe
adapter how exciting that's it in there next we have
a DVI to VGA adapter you're seriously still running a VGA Monitor and a like
this and yes I stand by what I said a lot of people are complaining about that
particular comment but I think it's true I think if you're buying a $500 graphics
card you ought to upgrade your monitor if you're still actually running a VGA
monitor here's a quick installation guide here's a driver disc don't use it
download the latest from the NVIDIA website and finally here is the card
itself so we're going to pull this guy
out
ever say ever so carefully and I think I'm I think I'm
already going to like this card yes yes I am already going to like
this card because it has a matte black
PCB awesome I'm a big fan of the matte
black PCB see Zero reflection nothing
just matte black awesomeness everything looks good when it's in silver and matte
black see here's a standard GTX 580 PCB
for contrast see how shiny that is see
how shiny this is not at all all right
so here is our standard PCI Express 16x
connector here's our dual SLI fingers so
this car does support up to two-way and
three-way and even four-way SLI on supported motherboards although four-way
SLI isn't a great value I mean neither is three-way but four-way really isn't a
Great Value three-way is probably about as high as I would go even for an
extreme gaming rig here on the back of the card we find that non-standard
output setup that I talked about so we've got dual DVI fulls sizee HDMI and
DisplayPort so we'll contrast that with the standard GTX 580 where we find dual
DVI and mini HDMI so that's a little bit
different we also do not have a full PCI
bracket width for for exhaust and the reason for that is we are using a
non-reference cooler so right here we're using kind of a uh a dual fan these look
like oh it's hard to say I think they're probably 80 Ms but they might be 70 Ms I
can't quite tell they're lowprofile fans this is still a dual slot card so you
don't need three slots for the card itself although I would still recommend
leaving the next slot over vacant so that these fans do have some room to
breathe most of the exhaust it looks like due to the shape of the cooler is
being down out the back of the card here where you can see it's just full of
dense dense fins that's a very dense aluminum fin cooler there's your two
fans plugged in so this is a fully custom PCB not just the color but the
entire PCB design CU it has actual fan inputs for both of these fans rather
than just one and then obviously here on the other
side so you can see the the fins through there but that one's not going to be
able to exhaust as much should be okay it's only a single GPU card so it's not
like we have to about two gpus getting equal cooling or anything like that so I
would expect it to perform at least as well as the stock cooler if not it
should actually be better I mean look at this you got how many fat heat pipes is
that on there looks like you got about four heat pipes in there uh carrying
heat over here to the other side as well as uh over to the front of the card up
here on the top looks fairly standard so
like I said you got your SLI fingers you've also got a four pin and a three
pin connector so just because it has more memory doesn't mean that it needs
more power it uses the same amount of power as a standard GTX 580 so that's
pretty much everything I wanted to say about this card except why you would buy
one so a 3 gig GTX 580 what is it for
well it's for SLI running triple monitor
HD Plus resolution configurations or if
you play with like ridiculous High texture highres texture packs in your
favorite games because the reality of it is 1.5 gigs is plenty of RAM for a GTX
580 unless you're running an extreme usage scenario so remember in SLI doing
like let's say you're doing NVIDIA surround with 3 2560 x600 monitors each
card has to store all of the textures has to use its own frame buffer to store
all of the information necessary for that entire like six times HD resolution
that you're talking about with a setup like that I think it what is it
something like 12 megapixels so when
you're in SLI you don't actually get to double your frame when you put two cards
together so you run two of these you don't have three gigs of memory
effectively you actually only have 1.5 still so if you run two of these or
three of these you only have three gigs of effective memory no matter how many
cards you're running together so that is why if you are running a great big
resolution or if you're running
um yeah mostly just big resolutions
something like this could be really handy because it could be the difference like you don't just get a linear
performance increase from more memory it would be the difference between it's
playable at you know like 40 FPS or it runs at
like 6 FPS because it's completely out of memory and it has to swap so it has
to swap to the drive so there you go thank you for checking out my unboxing
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