so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing that's not really relevant from
a uh from a product standpoint but it's more interesting because it marks the
reintroduction of the pallet brand back into North America now pallet was around
uh in Europe and Asia for a long time they've been very successful there and
they tried about a year ago in North America and eventually ended up pulling
out and their cards kind of disappeared from the shelves but now they're back
and bigger than ever and so I've got a pallet GTX 260 here it's a 216 stream
processor 260 with 896 Megs of RAM 448
bit interface with that RAM etc etc etc one cool thing that it does have is a h
an a a HDMI an HDMI output now Pet's Big
Value add is that they
are this is a Sonic overclocking Edition
their thing is Play It tweak it get more out of it they claim that their cards
because they never use reference designs they always design their own pcbs they
say that you can get more overclocking and more performance out of their cards
versus with another manufacturer now my camera person just showed up so if I
could get them to grab the camera and let's have a look at what we will find
inside the box for the pallet 260 uh yeah awesome thank you so first
we will find inside this huge box a piece of foam okay there you go there's
your foam awesome next in terms of accessories we will find a DVI to HDMI
adapter oh no this is not that thing
this is an HDMI to DVI adapter slightly
different so that you can take the HDMI port that is present on the card and you
can make this into a dual DVI card very clever okay but I'm not done with the
accessories yet so now we have a two Mo X to one PCI Express power adapter they
only give you one I guess because uh this card only has one connector is my
guess but we'll find out later when we actually look at the card we're not look
yet and this is one this seems to be one of those little audio adapters or
something yeah ground and something oh it doesn't tell me what the other one's
for that's terrific it's not labeled but I think it's the little audio thing okay
so then we'll take out this huge piece of foam which is like very well packed
you can see this is really good quality foam here okay inside we will find a
quick installation guide and a driver disc wow I don't think I've seen compact
disc written out like that in years that is terrific okay quick install guide
from NVIDIA install the driver okay that's
all pretty straightforward bunch of wow it even has Romanian in here you can
tell they're a global company when all the languages that are present in that
quick installation guide so let's have a look at the card itself the first thing
the very first thing you will notice about it is what I said before this is
not a reference card folks so pallet takes a lot of pride in designing their
own pcbs for NVIDIA GeForce graphic
solution so you can see this one has a dual fan solution over what appears to
be three heat pipes running along the core of this video card and then running
up into can you see that can you see that okay and then running up into the
fins that are cooled by these fans now this fan right here if you look down
into it this way can you can you see in there very well y so you can see that
this fan is not entirely dedicated to cooling the heat pipes and the fins and
actually a lot of the air is shunted off this way so that it'll cool the voltage
Regulators which are over here and have a very nice this is a nice looking card
actually has has a nice heat sink on it over here all right so let's have a look
let's see okay first of all uh red PCB on the back that is a bright red PCB
very distinctive looking now you can tell one thing about pallet they do not
allow you to remove your stock cooler to keep your warranty so that's a
difference from some of the other manufacturers like EVGA and XFX who do
allow you to remove it you've got your two fingers for SLI on the back all
right you got your standard PCI Express 60x connector all right so let's move
around to the top where we will find two six pin adapters so I guess they only
give you or two adapters two six pin um PCI Express plugs so I guess they only
give you one cuz they figure if you're actually using a power supply that
doesn't have at least one PCI Express connector on it you probably ought not
be running this card all right so the top here you can see that they've left
an open open open slot here so that the fans will blow air out of the card this
way so they're actually blowing air out this way blowing blowing air out this
way and blowing air out this way so there's not going to be a lot of air restriction in this cooler I really like
that okay so you can see at the back we've got this is a dual slot card so
you've got vents here and then you've also got HDMI VGA and DVI and they've
given you that handy HDMI to DVI connector so if you don't have an hdii
HDMI monitor you can just use dual DVI quite easily wow look at that so you got
more ventilation coming out the bottom so this will actually blow air onto your
motherboard components under the video card that is swell because so many video
cards overlook this and do not provide any cooling to that area under there
that gets almost no air flow whatsoever so I think that pretty much covers my um
unboxing of the GeForce GTX 260 from
pallet this is a Sonic Edition and this is a Sonic edition of tech tips or
something thank you for checking out my video blog and I'll talk to you later
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