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today we're going to be doing an unboxing for a pretty unique product

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this is the MSI n465 GTX twin frozer to

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golden edition so this is an all copper design for the cooler that's one of the

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big things about this card but there's a couple other things as well it's got a three-year warranty in Canada and the US

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it uses their military class concept of components including their tantalum

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capacitor solid state chokes meaning no buzzing underload for cards that do

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feature that uh that particular aspect of military

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class as well as solid capacitors which they claim a minimum of a 10-year

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lifetime for it does support all of your typical NVIDIA functionality such as

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Cuda SLI including three-way SLI physics

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as well as 3D Vision including 3D Vision surround it has 1 gig of gddr5 it has

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voltage adjustment uh via MSI afterburner software

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and I think I was going to say something else no I was not all right so here's

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another little um outline of the military class components so here's the

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no buzz thing I was talking about so with ring chokes you can get kind of a

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high-pitched uh vibration or it can sound like a squeal uh it's very very

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obnoxious if you've ever hadir a card that that uh that does this you'll know

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what I'm talking about whereas with a solid state choke you do not hear it and

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I've used a couple of MSI's military class cards already and I have observed

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that I do not get any whining noises from from them whatsoever so this is a

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direct contact okay here we're talking mostly about the cooler so why don't we

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take the card out first and then we'll talk about the cooler while we can

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actually look at it that would be better ooh it has a black box Black Box

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is always nice okay I have to say first of all I

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am quite disappointed um it did say golden edition and it turned out that it

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was made of copper so I was really hoping that this card would weigh like

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you know um 90 pounds but uh it's

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getting up there this probably weighs about as much as

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um as almost any other graphics card I've encountered i' I'd estimate that's

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at a good 4 lbs for that card let's have a look at the accessories that are

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included we've got two Molex to one PCIe six pin connector a mini HDMI to HDMI

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connector and another two Molex to six pin PCIe connector and then underneath

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we have some other stuff we have a quick users guide a D VI to HDMI adapter DVI

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to VGA adapter uh their afterburner software and it says Hey download the

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latest version right here that's what to do MSI's got that figured out all right

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and then what else do we have here this

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is how to use their live update uh

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software to update your drivers Okay cool so let's get the card out here man

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this thing weighs so much that's awesome

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uh it looks like it's

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using um either a reference PCB or a slightly

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modified one it's hard for me to say right now because it does have a twin

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frozer cooler on it but you can see on the back it has the hole for the uh for

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the stock fan so I'm not sure whether they've altered the PCB I don't have a

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GTX 465 with me here on the Park Bench to compare against I'm going to just

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take off this little cover on the PC Express uh MSI does these little covers

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on everything that's uh very unique to

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them okay so these are individually numbered I actually don't know how many

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they produced but let's uh let's take a okay let's look at the overall card

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layout and then we'll look at the cooler much closer near the end so first of all

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this is a PCI Express 2.0 16x card

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that's your typical thing as I mentioned before you've got support for two-way as

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well as three-way SLI with this particular card you've got your MSI

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branding up here on the top with your twin frozer 2 as well as your unique

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number and then we have two six pin PCIe

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power connectors this is quite a power hungry card because it is based on the

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fmy architecture let's move around to

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the bottom so this is a four pin pwm fan

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that uh is using a little adapter to run two fans off the one header here on the

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video card moving around to the back yeah here

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we go uh limited offer number 600 98 so

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this is card number 698 out of all of the golden edition cards they produced

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and on the back we find a custom um IO

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shield with MSI logo on it as well as some other vents for air to come out and

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then we've got a mini HDMI as well as two DVI ports now this cooler is not

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going to exhaust all of the air directly out of the back of the case but it will

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do some so you see the fins are actually

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okay here I don't know how to give you guys a good angle at this it looks

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really cool but it's hard to uh hard to really demonstrate it okay so you see

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the fins run this way right so what happens is when the fans blow down it

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means the air flow is either going to go that way or that way so basically uh a

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small portion of the air flow from this fan will be exhausted directly out of

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the case whereas from this fan it's all going to end up in your case as long as

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you have good a case air flow this isn't going to be a problem but if you don't

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have good case airflow then you can run into a little bit of trouble and I want

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to really look at the way the heat pipes are positioned on this cooler because I

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think this is really clever they've got five heat pipes directly over the GPU

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core so if you look down there you can see right where the GPU is right there

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and three of these are 6 mm heat pipes

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and two of them are MSI's 8 mm Super

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pipes so what the super pipes do is they're positioned at both of the

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outside edges and they carry the heat away the furthest from the GPU itself so

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what that means is that wherever it's sort of has

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to cover a much greater distance they're using super pipes so that you can still

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take advantage of the copper fins that are over here and over here at the very

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edges of the cooler actually oh yeah that's one of

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the things that they do have on here another thing that they're using is

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a oh what was I going to say okay I'll just say the next thing I was going to

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say okay so the middle heat pipe you can see here goes right to the middle of the

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cooler so that one is the one that goes directly over the GPU core and it's able

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to take advantage of the air flow air flow from both of these fans and I I

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guess I'll just let you kind of look at this for a little bit because it's really cool the way that they lay out

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the heat pipes with all five of them carrying heat to completely different

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parts of this cooler so that you can really take advantage of this huge

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copper block I mean it's basically a brick of copper on top of this card uh

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let me see if there's anything else that uh we should talk about briefly here

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High heat sink okay that makes a lot of sense oh yeah I should mention that even

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though this is an extremely heavy extremely high-end cooler it's still

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only a dual slot design so you don't have to worry about uh taking up an

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additional slot next to your graphics card another thing that should be noted

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and this is kind of okay this is a bit of an odd design choice but you see the

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Shroud that they've put over top with your serial number as well as the MSI

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branding it actually goes back a little bit further than the video card itself

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so make sure you've got enough room in your case to install this card because

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it is a touch longer than a regular GTX

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465 now MSI claims that this cooler is

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up to 16° cooler and up to 21° or 21 DB

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quieter than the stock GTX 465 cooler and we will take a look at what kind of

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tempts we can get out of it but I think that pretty much covers everything I

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wanted to say that is the MSI uh GTX 465

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twin frozer 2 golden edition graphics

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card