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two things first of all I'm going to be unboxing and having a quick look at a pallet GeForce GTS 250 512 Meg video

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card and then the second thing is I'm going to talk a little bit about NC's

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Easter Extravaganza which is going to be

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um running for the month of March and is the reason for my ridiculous outfit

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containing some ridiculous colors not that I don't normally wear the hat in

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particular anyway first of all why don't we get going on the unboxing this is a

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pallet video card Pet's big thing is that they always have custom pcbs so

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that means that they use high quality components for all their power delivery

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and they say you get better performance out of a pallet card because you get

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better overclocking play it tweak it get more out of it that's their slogan okay

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this is an HDMI card it has dual link DVI vgi VGA and HDMI let's have a look

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at the back it's in about 12 different languages

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and um these are all pretty much standard features so why don't we get

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this thing open and have a look

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okay here we go so we got the video card

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first but why don't we have a look at the accessories before we really get

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into the video card itself so the first thing we find is one of those little

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audio cables that I'm pretty sure nobody uses but it's included just in case then

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we have a two Molex to one PCI Express

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power adapter so I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that this card needs

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an external PCI Express power connector then we have a quick installation guide

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which I'm just going to look at myself here shows you how to install the

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drivers it does not include any installation instructions for the

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hardware aspects of things and I mean really these instructions are mostly

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irrelevant anyway because you shouldn't be using the included driver CD you

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should be downloading the latest drivers off NVIDIA.com so why don't I put this

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back inside here and let's get this video card out

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of the box just finished watching the uh men's

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hockey game where they totally won so

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I'm just still here in front of the TV that's why I'm kind of in a weird

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location today anyway here's the pallet video card so on the top you find a

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custom fan and heat sink combination which is very very standard even though

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it's a non-standard heat sink for a pallet video card because they do all

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use custom pcbs and coolers on the back we're going to find HDMI VGA and DVI as

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advertised then we have an Arrow slot uh

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we have a slotted cooler here so that means that although this isn't a blower

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style heat sink you can see that the air can be exhausted in all directions we

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are going to lose a little bit of the heat out the back of the case via these

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vents this is a standard PCI Express oh

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this is weird this is a GTS 250 but it

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doesn't have an SLI an SLI connector look at that there's no SLI I was about

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to say it's got your standard SLI connector and PCI Express 16x interface

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but it only has one of them that's funny I mean GTS 250 can run in SLI mode

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without a connector and performance probably isn't going to be impacted much

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but that's still a very strange thing to see on a on a card of this caliber

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anyway okay why don't we come around to the back and we see some of the power

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delivery there you can see it's covered in a giant heat sink that covers most of

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the video card I'll try and get you a better view of that in a minute and then we have our PCI Express 6X power

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connector right here you have the power for the fan all right and then I'm going

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to try and give you a better angle on the heat sink camera person think you

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can tell me if you've got a good good angle there can you kind of see okay so

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the heat sink covers this much of the video card right here and it's just

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aluminum fins being blown down on by this fan all right if you have a look

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here you can see that the memory is arranged kind of strangely like it's um

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kind of all bunched in together here and then it kind of it goes it it's in this

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sort of a pattern like the old 6800 and 7800 series cards and it's 512 Megs

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overall on this particular video card I wish I could show you more of it but I

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mean that's all I can really do so thank you for checking out my unboxing and

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first look at the pallette GTS 250 512

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Meg and then the code word is

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eggplant and if you check out the NC Easter Extravaganza on nc.com then you

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will know why you need the code word eggplant