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so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing that's not really relevant from

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a uh from a product standpoint but it's more interesting because it marks the

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reintroduction of the pallet brand back into North America now pallet was around

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uh in Europe and Asia for a long time they've been very successful there and

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they tried about a year ago in North America and eventually ended up pulling

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out and their cards kind of disappeared from the shelves but now they're back

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and bigger than ever and so I've got a pallet GTX 260 here it's a 216 stream

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processor 260 with 896 Megs of RAM 448

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bit interface with that RAM etc etc etc one cool thing that it does have is a h

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an a a HDMI an HDMI output now Pet's Big

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Value add is that they

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are this is a Sonic overclocking Edition

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their thing is Play It tweak it get more out of it they claim that their cards

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because they never use reference designs they always design their own pcbs they

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say that you can get more overclocking and more performance out of their cards

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versus with another manufacturer now my camera person just showed up so if I

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could get them to grab the camera and let's have a look at what we will find

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inside the box for the pallet 260 uh yeah awesome thank you so first

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we will find inside this huge box a piece of foam okay there you go there's

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your foam awesome next in terms of accessories we will find a DVI to HDMI

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adapter oh no this is not that thing

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this is an HDMI to DVI adapter slightly

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different so that you can take the HDMI port that is present on the card and you

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can make this into a dual DVI card very clever okay but I'm not done with the

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accessories yet so now we have a two Mo X to one PCI Express power adapter they

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only give you one I guess because uh this card only has one connector is my

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guess but we'll find out later when we actually look at the card we're not look

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yet and this is one this seems to be one of those little audio adapters or

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something yeah ground and something oh it doesn't tell me what the other one's

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for that's terrific it's not labeled but I think it's the little audio thing okay

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so then we'll take out this huge piece of foam which is like very well packed

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you can see this is really good quality foam here okay inside we will find a

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quick installation guide and a driver disc wow I don't think I've seen compact

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disc written out like that in years that is terrific okay quick install guide

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from NVIDIA install the driver okay that's

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all pretty straightforward bunch of wow it even has Romanian in here you can

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tell they're a global company when all the languages that are present in that

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quick installation guide so let's have a look at the card itself the first thing

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the very first thing you will notice about it is what I said before this is

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not a reference card folks so pallet takes a lot of pride in designing their

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own pcbs for NVIDIA GeForce graphic

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solution so you can see this one has a dual fan solution over what appears to

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be three heat pipes running along the core of this video card and then running

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up into can you see that can you see that okay and then running up into the

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fins that are cooled by these fans now this fan right here if you look down

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into it this way can you can you see in there very well y so you can see that

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this fan is not entirely dedicated to cooling the heat pipes and the fins and

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actually a lot of the air is shunted off this way so that it'll cool the voltage

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Regulators which are over here and have a very nice this is a nice looking card

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actually has has a nice heat sink on it over here all right so let's have a look

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let's see okay first of all uh red PCB on the back that is a bright red PCB

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very distinctive looking now you can tell one thing about pallet they do not

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allow you to remove your stock cooler to keep your warranty so that's a

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difference from some of the other manufacturers like EVGA and XFX who do

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allow you to remove it you've got your two fingers for SLI on the back all

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right you got your standard PCI Express 60x connector all right so let's move

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around to the top where we will find two six pin adapters so I guess they only

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give you or two adapters two six pin um PCI Express plugs so I guess they only

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give you one cuz they figure if you're actually using a power supply that

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doesn't have at least one PCI Express connector on it you probably ought not

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be running this card all right so the top here you can see that they've left

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an open open open slot here so that the fans will blow air out of the card this

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way so they're actually blowing air out this way blowing blowing air out this

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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

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that okay so you can see at the back we've got this is a dual slot card so

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you've got vents here and then you've also got HDMI VGA and DVI and they've

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given you that handy HDMI to DVI connector so if you don't have an hdii

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HDMI monitor you can just use dual DVI quite easily wow look at that so you got

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more ventilation coming out the bottom so this will actually blow air onto your

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motherboard components under the video card that is swell because so many video

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cards overlook this and do not provide any cooling to that area under there

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that gets almost no air flow whatsoever so I think that pretty much covers my um

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unboxing of the GeForce GTX 260 from

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pallet this is a Sonic Edition and this is a Sonic edition of tech tips or

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something thank you for checking out my video blog and I'll talk to you later

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