WEBVTT 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:08.480 So today we're going to be having a look at the GeForce GTX 461 gig but there's 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:14.160 something here that you need to make a note of this is the 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:18.199 SE which uh in computer terms it usually 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:20.560 stands for uh slightly reduced Edition 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:29.640 so the GTX 461 gig SE actually performs at low 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:32.640 resolutions similarly to the GTX 460 768 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:35.120 mix but performs a little bit better at 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:39.239 higher resolutions so it's a bit of a it's a bit of an oddball part and not 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:43.960 all of the NVIDIA board Partners even came out with one this is a Gigabyte 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:47.079 card by the way and so all of the board Partners were given free rign there's no 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:50.800 reference design so they were given free reign to design it however they wanted 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:58.000 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 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:01.519 is like all GeForce GTX 460s 3D Vision 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:03.480 ready Cuda ready SL ready physx ready 00:01:01.519 --> 00:01:07.759 all that good NVIDIA stuff this particular one comes Factory overclock 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:14.000 so in terms of that performance you may find it performs a little bit better 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:15.560 than a normal GTX 460 SE okay mind you 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:19.360 you could do that overclocking yourself it has a three-year warranty in the US 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.079 and Canada it comes with their wind Force air anti- turbulence cooling 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:28.360 cooler which we're going to have a look at once we get this opened up as well as 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:31.439 Ultra durable VGA which has all of these 00:01:28.360 --> 00:01:33.680 things going for it 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:40.640 Ultra durable is a bit of a carryover from gigabytes motherboard technology so 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:42.200 here we see it has one gig of gddr5 2 56 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:46.799 bit memory interface that other stuff we already 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:50.200 pretty much talked about and what else do we have here oh okay they're going to 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:55.520 give us some more explanation of the anti- turbulence cooling wind Force so 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:59.079 2x anti- turbulence inclined fins okay the latest cooling Gigabyte 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.759 understands the fan is crucial to the graphics cards so only the fan with the 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:11.280 most efficiency select for windforce ultra quiet pwm fans anti- turbulence 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:13.720 inclined fins okay pure copper heat 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:18.800 pipes okay so they're saying it's h silent 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.840 and helps Heats can spread effectively 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:24.480 from hot areas all right let's get this card opened up and have a look I'm tired 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:27.200 of looking at the box I think I'm zoomed in right now there we 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:36.800 go all right GTX 460 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:40.120 SE the first thing we will find inside 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:43.000 is a user manual and multilingual 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:47.000 installation guide as well as a driver disc throw the driver disc away keep the 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:55.360 installation guide just in case you need it next we have two Molex so dual Molex 00:02:52.239 --> 00:02:56.800 two single six pin PCIe adapters 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:00.720 although I'll go with my usual recommendation that if you're buying a 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:04.280 graphics card that requires 2 PCI E6 pins you should probably have a power 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:09.400 supply that already has them we have a mini HDMI two HDMI adapter so I guess uh 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.599 we can assume that the card is going to have mini HDMI we also have a DVI to VGA 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.720 adapter if you are still using a VGA monitor it looks like the packaging has 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:22.640 been uh repurposed a little bit from a longer graphics card since you can see 00:03:20.519 --> 00:03:26.840 there's quite a bit of space at the end of the 00:03:24.200 --> 00:03:33.280 460s okay just a regular piece of tape holding the anti-static bag on there we 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.280 are open that 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:39.200 up okay so we find a characteristic 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.799 although I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to say that because 00:03:41.239 --> 00:03:48.200 some of their new motherboards feature matte black pcbs I can't really talk 00:03:44.920 --> 00:03:50.319 about those yet but they look so nice 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:55.400 anyway we see a characteristic blue Gigabyte PCB uh on the other side 00:03:54.120 --> 00:04:04.040 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 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:07.280 the inclined th uh what's it called wind 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:09.159 Force yes wind Force cooler which 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:15.480 actually looks pretty sweet it's got like a nice shiny uh Darth Vader esque 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:21.840 sort of black going on here very very glossy I really like it and then we've 00:04:17.799 --> 00:04:23.080 got a couple of what appear to be 60 mm 00:04:21.840 --> 00:04:27.840 oh those could even no I think those are 80 mm fans you know what funny Gigabyte 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:34.400 actually doesn't specify on the outside of their 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:36.840 box that's a very strange thing you'd think they would You' think they'd 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:42.360 mention something like that but yeah those look like 80 mm fans and then we 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:44.320 have two nice big heat pipes going from 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:49.560 the actual GPU core which hopefully you can see down there out to the very ends 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:54.000 of the wind Force ex now what they mean by anti- turbulence I'm just going to 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:58.320 try to figure out a little bit I think what they mean is the way that the fins 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:03.039 are inclined they're not actually quite flat so they're inclined this way and 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:06.560 then you can see the fans compared to the card I hope you can see that are 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:11.360 actually inclined a little bit too so I think the idea is that it's uh rather 00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:16.560 than the air like kind of slamming into a surface right away it's more like a 00:05:14.280 --> 00:05:22.039 gradual approach to it and it lets it kind of cut through it uh rather than 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:25.360 just uh creating more noise and more well there 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:28.960 turbulence that's my theory anyway I could be wrong it's happened before all 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.199 right so here we are on the top of the card where we find an SLI finger i' I 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:37.520 see so many people commenting on my channel well what if you run GTX 460 in 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:42.840 three-way SLI well you can't because there's only a single SLI figure that a 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:44.720 finger that goes for uh ATI cards or AMD 00:05:42.840 --> 00:05:48.440 cards as well if there's only a single connector you can only run two-way 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:51.759 multi-GPU configurations if you have two of those connectors you can run three or 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:56.000 even four-way and that's driver dependent but yeah if there's only one 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:00.080 you can only run two way so here we have our mini 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:07.720 HDMI which they haven't included adapter for then we have two DVI 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:10.520 ports we also have a vented whoa drop 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:14.080 the card uh vented PCI back plates so you're not going to get a whole lot of 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:17.520 exhaust out of there based on the design of this cooler so you can see there's 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:22.240 air is going to come out this way and it's going to kind of hit that it's not 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:27.599 really going to go out there so I would consider this to be a largely internal 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.479 exhaust cooling design although you will get a little bit of incidental air flow 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:35.800 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 00:06:34.280 --> 00:06:39.960 nice efficient cooler and as long as you have good case fans and a well 00:06:37.960 --> 00:06:45.400 ventilated uh computer you're not going to be running into too many problems PCI 00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:50.479 e6x standard slot I don't know if I mention that yet but I think that pretty 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:55.520 much covers it so the GTX 460 SE like I mentioned is a 1 gig card but it is 00:06:53.280 --> 00:07:01.520 slightly cut down from the actual regular 1 gig card putting it in the 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:03.680 performance range of a 768 megga card so 00:07:01.520 --> 00:07:07.199 why would you want this well I guess the answer is if you're running at high 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:11.080 resolution okay and you don't want to buy the the fully-fledged one gig card 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:15.440 or if you're running kind of like older games that don't require quite as fast 00:07:13.039 --> 00:07:19.240 GPU but you want to run like uh third party texture pack stuff like that you 00:07:17.199 --> 00:07:21.840 need the extra video memory this is the card for you so don't forget to 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:27.160 subscribe to lineus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer 00:07:24.160 --> 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