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So today we're going to be having a look at the GeForce GTX 461 gig but there's

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something here that you need to make a note of this is the

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SE which uh in computer terms it usually

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stands for uh slightly reduced Edition

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so the GTX 461 gig SE actually performs at low

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resolutions similarly to the GTX 460 768

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mix but performs a little bit better at

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higher resolutions so it's a bit of a it's a bit of an oddball part and not

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all of the NVIDIA board Partners even came out with one this is a Gigabyte

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card by the way and so all of the board Partners were given free rign there's no

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reference design so they were given free reign to design it however they wanted

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so this is the Gigabyte version that's what we're going to be having a look at today let's start with the packaging it

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is like all GeForce GTX 460s 3D Vision

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ready Cuda ready SL ready physx ready

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all that good NVIDIA stuff this particular one comes Factory overclock

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so in terms of that performance you may find it performs a little bit better

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than a normal GTX 460 SE okay mind you

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you could do that overclocking yourself it has a three-year warranty in the US

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and Canada it comes with their wind Force air anti- turbulence cooling

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cooler which we're going to have a look at once we get this opened up as well as

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Ultra durable VGA which has all of these

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things going for it

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Ultra durable is a bit of a carryover from gigabytes motherboard technology so

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here we see it has one gig of gddr5 2 56

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bit memory interface that other stuff we already

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pretty much talked about and what else do we have here oh okay they're going to

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give us some more explanation of the anti- turbulence cooling wind Force so

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2x anti- turbulence inclined fins okay the latest cooling Gigabyte

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understands the fan is crucial to the graphics cards so only the fan with the

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most efficiency select for windforce ultra quiet pwm fans anti- turbulence

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inclined fins okay pure copper heat

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pipes okay so they're saying it's h silent

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and helps Heats can spread effectively

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from hot areas all right let's get this card opened up and have a look I'm tired

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of looking at the box I think I'm zoomed in right now there we

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go all right GTX 460

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SE the first thing we will find inside

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is a user manual and multilingual

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installation guide as well as a driver disc throw the driver disc away keep the

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installation guide just in case you need it next we have two Molex so dual Molex

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two single six pin PCIe adapters

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although I'll go with my usual recommendation that if you're buying a

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graphics card that requires 2 PCI E6 pins you should probably have a power

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supply that already has them we have a mini HDMI two HDMI adapter so I guess uh

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we can assume that the card is going to have mini HDMI we also have a DVI to VGA

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adapter if you are still using a VGA monitor it looks like the packaging has

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been uh repurposed a little bit from a longer graphics card since you can see

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there's quite a bit of space at the end of the

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460s okay just a regular piece of tape holding the anti-static bag on there we

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are open that

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up okay so we find a characteristic

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although I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to say that because

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some of their new motherboards feature matte black pcbs I can't really talk

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about those yet but they look so nice

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anyway we see a characteristic blue Gigabyte PCB uh on the other side

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actually well here let's flip it around this way first so we've got those two six pin PCIe connectors for power here's

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the inclined th uh what's it called wind

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Force yes wind Force cooler which

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actually looks pretty sweet it's got like a nice shiny uh Darth Vader esque

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sort of black going on here very very glossy I really like it and then we've

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got a couple of what appear to be 60 mm

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oh those could even no I think those are 80 mm fans you know what funny Gigabyte

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actually doesn't specify on the outside of their

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box that's a very strange thing you'd think they would You' think they'd

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mention something like that but yeah those look like 80 mm fans and then we

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have two nice big heat pipes going from

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the actual GPU core which hopefully you can see down there out to the very ends

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of the wind Force ex now what they mean by anti- turbulence I'm just going to

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try to figure out a little bit I think what they mean is the way that the fins

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are inclined they're not actually quite flat so they're inclined this way and

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then you can see the fans compared to the card I hope you can see that are

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actually inclined a little bit too so I think the idea is that it's uh rather

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than the air like kind of slamming into a surface right away it's more like a

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gradual approach to it and it lets it kind of cut through it uh rather than

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just uh creating more noise and more well there

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turbulence that's my theory anyway I could be wrong it's happened before all

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right so here we are on the top of the card where we find an SLI finger i' I

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see so many people commenting on my channel well what if you run GTX 460 in

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three-way SLI well you can't because there's only a single SLI figure that a

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finger that goes for uh ATI cards or AMD

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cards as well if there's only a single connector you can only run two-way

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multi-GPU configurations if you have two of those connectors you can run three or

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even four-way and that's driver dependent but yeah if there's only one

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you can only run two way so here we have our mini

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HDMI which they haven't included adapter for then we have two DVI

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ports we also have a vented whoa drop

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the card uh vented PCI back plates so you're not going to get a whole lot of

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exhaust out of there based on the design of this cooler so you can see there's

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air is going to come out this way and it's going to kind of hit that it's not

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really going to go out there so I would consider this to be a largely internal

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exhaust cooling design although you will get a little bit of incidental air flow

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coming out the case you're going to be spitting most of the hot air back into your case it's not a big deal it is a

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nice efficient cooler and as long as you have good case fans and a well

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ventilated uh computer you're not going to be running into too many problems PCI

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e6x standard slot I don't know if I mention that yet but I think that pretty

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much covers it so the GTX 460 SE like I mentioned is a 1 gig card but it is

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slightly cut down from the actual regular 1 gig card putting it in the

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performance range of a 768 megga card so

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why would you want this well I guess the answer is if you're running at high

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resolution okay and you don't want to buy the the fully-fledged one gig card

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or if you're running kind of like older games that don't require quite as fast

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GPU but you want to run like uh third party texture pack stuff like that you

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need the extra video memory this is the card for you so don't forget to

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