So today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 570 so
this is NVIDIA's latest edition to their
GTX 500 series family so the first card
with the GTX 500 series name was the GTX 580 so that was
uh if you've followed NVIDIA's naming schemes over the last well I guess the
last few Generations the 80 would be the highest end single GPU typically
although we had seen a an 85 which was a
refresh and then the 70 would be the next one down so this is basically a
slightly a slightly cut down GTX 580 so
here as we get this open I'll tell you some of the key differences between the
570 and the 580 so first of all the 570 has fewer functional units that is uh
fewer shaders uh fewer Cuda Cor
all of that kind of stuff okay it also
has less RAM so I'm going to show you guys the box now we're going to sort of
talk about that for a bit it has less video memory so that's only
1.28 GB versus the 1.5 gigs on the GTX
580 so even though this has less video
memory than the GTX 480 right now it
looks like performance is quite similar power consumption is much lower and uh
yeah it looks like obviously the price is is quite a bit lower as well we've
got full support for NVIDIA's latest Technologies including 3D Vision
surround physx direct X11 and SLI and
that includes three-way SLI on this particular card let's go ahead and have
a look at the back I think there's not much here that we don't already know
very very similar specs overall to the GTX 580 the key differences are like I
said before it is a little bit more cut down it's a little bit slower but it
also comes in at a very attractive price so it comes with a poster which I'm
going to go ahead and sort of carefully unfold here for you guys an EVGA gaming
poster no less which is a skull with
some like Wicked like guns or
something okay very nice very nice touch
to you VGA then we have a user guide
which shows you presumably how to install it how to install your drivers
we have a driver disc don't use this download the latest off the NVIDIA
website as well as a powered by EVGA sticker for the front of your case next
we have the accessories I like evga's uh
environmentally friendly and recyclable
packaging which you can clearly see here let's have a look at what we've got in
terms of accessories so the first thing we have is a mini HDMI to HDMI cable in
evga's classic shiny wrapper with EVGA
logo on the back I haven't actually seen that with a graphics card before I've
only really seen that in their motherboard packages so then we've got a
dual MOX to PCIe six pin adapter another
of the same and finally a DVI to VGA adapter
although if you're really upgrading to a $350 graphics card today please please
upgrade your monitor if you're still using VGA please all right next we have
a little warning please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2
minutes after operation before removing it from your system interesting you
don't want to burn yourself after all all right and let's go
ahead and take off the caution
electrostatic sensitive devices do not open or handle except at a static free
workstation all right and let's get this card out I've
actually got a GTX 580 here with me for comparison so we'll be able to uh hold
them up next to each other all right so the first thing we
see is that the GTX 570 looks very
similar to the 580 the overall shrouded cooler design is uh something that we've
seen on NVIDIA cards since gee pretty much the 8800 Series where we've got a
uh a fan at the back here so this is a pwm controlled fan and we better hold on
pause for a minute and we've also got a little EVGA
sticker here so I'm just going to go ahead and remove the if I can remove the
cover on it then I'll go ahead and remove that
there we are okay cool okay and then
we've got a rear exhaust sort of setup so you can see there's actually no
access to the fan whatsoever through here we can just see the uh the Shroud
itself and then if we move around to the other side you can see that all of the
air is being exhausted out of the case now there's a couple different design
philosophies for video card coolers so one of them is that the video card
because it produces a lot of heat inside the case should be cooled sort of
adequately but we should remove as much of the heat as possible from the case
through an exhaust vent whereas the other philosophy is that we should design sort of a more open air cooler
that does a better job of cooling the VGA core frankly but exhausts heat
inside the case so the air we're using to cool the video card isn't actually as
cool so there's uh obviously evga's uh
taken the NVIDIA reference design approach to this one using the rear
exhaust cooler so we've got two six pin PCIe power connect up here at the top
couple EVGA stickers then we've also got
uh SLI headers that are compatible with both two-way so you just use a single
header as well as three-way SLI U moving
around to the back which we actually sort of looked at already but I'll show
you again we have two DVI connectors One Mini HDMI please do note you can only
use two at a time so either this one and
this one or this one so you can't use all three at the same time to get NVIDIA
surround going you do have to have two matching GTX 570 cards the back of the
PCB actually looks pretty much identical to the 580 from what uh from what I can
recall so um what we'd probably find if we took the cooler off is that even
though there's solder points for all of this memory actually here you can
clearly see there's components on the back here but these ones don't have
memory chips installed on them so that's where we get the difference in RAM
capacity between the 570 and the 580
we've got a standard PCI Express 16x interface down here at the bottom that
is PCI Express 2 so it's double the bandwidth of the old PCI Express 1 and I
think that's pretty much everything there is to say about it uh
evga's I guess their value ad their brand value is a few different things
first of all they have their stepup program which allows you within a
certain window of time to take your GTX 570 let's say NVIDIA you know kind of uh
had the 570 on the market only for like a month and then they go and release
like a 575 or something EVGA stepup program allows you to trade in your old
570 and then pay like the difference to
get the new 575 so it's a pretty cool program they also have their lifetime
warranty as well as 24/7 tech support so
those are some of the EVGA differences and I'll actually um show you guys also
what they have to say for themselves so besides their EVGA Precision Tool which
is uh an overclocking utility they've also got some of their selling points
here so that the number one seller they're the number one in reliability
and service according to uh some survey somewhere and they're the performance
leader in 3D Mark vage although 3D Mark 11 was released today so it's going to
be Off to the Races all over again for all the crazy overclocking guys and then
number one folding at home team in the world so thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 570
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