welcome to my unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 650 this is the power
Edition from MSI which is actually going to be quite a factor for this particular
GPU I believe although I haven't tested it yet this is my first time opening up
the box so I'm pretty excited about that this is an OC Edition as most power
edition cards are it uses their trans thermal design which I'll show you guys
once I open it up it's got 1 gig of gddr5 although the 650 will be available
with 2 gigs as well uses a 128bit bus and the GK 107 GPU so this is a slightly
lower end GPU than the GK 106 that's used in the GeForce GTX
660 although the 660ti uses the 104 GPU
so just sort of try and wrap your brain around all of that so this has most of
the Kepler features including direct X11 as well as 3D Vision support NVIDIA
surround their new anti-aliasing technologies adaptive vsync which turns
your vsync on if you are above your refresh rate of your monitor and off if
you're below this provides an optimal balance of performance and avoiding
screen tearing you've got full support for physx Cuda as well as their pure
video HD technology okay um and up to 3
plus one displays out so you can
use let's just open it up shall we let
get this going did I say 3+1 display is out because what I meant to say is three
displays so sorry my bad actually give me a
sec yeah three displays out sorry guys so that's uh with support for NVIDIA
surround technology that sort of stands for reason but not 3+ 1 so if you want
3+ one you're going to want to look at one of the higher end cards such as the
660 or 660 Ti I mean it's kind of stands
to reason because there's no way you're going to be playing a game in surround
on sort of a low lower end card like this plus be running an auxiliary
display it just doesn't necessarily make any sense so let's have a look at what
we've got in terms of accessories you got a dual Molex to PCIe power adapter
you've got bunch of stuff in here DVI to VGA adapter ah one of those right angle
mini HDMI to HDMI adapters these are handy because they keep it from
interfering with your case all right you've got some documentation that
doesn't really matter as well as a driver disc but you should download the latest off the NVIDIA website just go
ahead and close this bad boy up put that
in there okay now one conspicuous
absentee from the NVIDIA feature set even though this is a GTX class card is
SLI okay so if you guys want SLI compatibility you want the ability to
run a couple cards in tandem in the future you are going to want to go with
at least a GeForce GTX 660 okay at the
time of filming although who knows there might be some other GPU coming out later that goes between that might support S I
don't know anything about that though so let's have a look at the card itself right power Edition what's important
about that with these kind of mainstream mainstream gaming graphics cards it's
all about getting the best bang for your buck so you are definitely going to want
to get the most out of whatever overclocking you're going to do on a
card like this so what a power Edition card does is it gives you access to
MSI's additional overvolting options so
those overvolting options are going to allow you to really squeeze every last
megahertz until it megahertz out of this card to get as
much performance as you can full support for PCI Express 3.0 so that's a 16x slot
and don't worry about the missing pins it's fine we've seen this before on
NVIDIA lower-end gaming cards and it doesn't actually it doesn't actually
matter unless you need the extra bandwidth or well not extra bandwidth
it's still running at PCI e6x unless you need the extra pins you don't end up
needing the extra pins so the higher end cards have all of them the lower end
ones sometimes don't let's have a look at the cooler so this is sort of a
unique design check this out okay so you've got kind of these contact plates
down here which are split up a little bit okay then you've got thermal
interface material under them that is uh interacting with things like uh like the
memory things like vrm all that good stuff and then you've got a very
open I'm just going to slide this again I'll show you what that does later
you've got a very open design that allows a lot of air to pass right
through the card which is going to do a great job of cooling vrm components
as well as the any memory modules or whatever else the case may be speaking
of memory modules with the 128bit bus and with the density of memory chips
these days there are only four memory chips they're on the other side of the card and I suspect because this is a
custom PCB that they need to redesign the PCB in order to install actually
hold on those might be contact those might be contact pads for additional
ones here actually so they probably wouldn't need to a two gig card could be
done fairly easily with this PCB all right so let's show you guys MSI's
exclusive trans thermal design so you
want more silence you leave it in single fan mode this is using a propeller blade
fan that looks like an like a 92mm fan
so that's pretty cool uh let's see did they have anything to say for them ah
yes okay so we we'll use their diagram so there's single fan mode there's
higher static pressure double airflow mode and then there's actually dual fan
mode sweet so this provides more cooling for the pwm modules in memory this
enhances the heat dissipation capacity with pressure which remember you need
pressure to push air through fins and then you need better and this single fan
mode is just like quieter and better than reference still so the cooler
includes their propeller fins as well as their dust removal technology so their
dust removal technology spins the fan backwards to blow some dust out of the
heat sink before then turning around and spinning the correct way now this will
sound kind of loud when you first turn it on every time but bear in mind the
card is operating correctly correctly and everything is okay so I'm going to
show you guys how to transform from uh one mode to another one I'm guessing
they couldn't call it a Transformer because then Apple would claim that they invented Transformers and uh you know
tell them they can't sell their card in North America anymore or wait no
couldn't yeah must be apple that's that's the one that invented everything
so here is the double stack fan
configuration and uh you can see that they've actually got see these are this
is kind of a smart fan design actually I wouldn't have minded it if they were counter rotating that would be even
better but you can see they've got these blades in here that will help it
generate more pressure without generating as much interference between
the two fans then you plug this guy right in here and all of a sudden you
have a triple slot card but MSI is giving you the option to keep it dual
slot if you don't want to install the additional the additional fan module
however you have more options than that but wait there's more slide it like
this pop it in like
this and
oh whoops I did that wrong hold on hold on I got this i got
this there we go there you go dual fan
cooler so that increases the length of the card a little bit as well so you
still plug the power in there but you got a little bit more I mean there's going to be a lot of clearance in most
gaming cases for this kind of a card anyway but uh there you go that's
showing you both of the additional fan modes so in conclusion that is the 6 GTX
650 from MSI this is the power Edition with their their trans thermal cooling
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