now you might think that it's a little late to be unboxing a GTX 570 but this
one has a bit of a Twist that um you
guys might find interesting who knows so this is the Galaxy MDT GTX 570 it's got
1280 Megs of RAM just like most GTX 570s
it's got a test form inside which is not actually for you guys but rather for my
use uh it has some foam it has winds
spit settings so this is interesting but we'll get into more about that a little
bit later it also has the MDT series
exclusive software settings guide which is also interesting but we'll get into
that a little bit more later graphics card driver and then winds spit Revolution software installation disc
this you might actually need although you should download the latest if
available from Galaxy website okay so let's go ahead
and see what we got for adapters we got a DVI to VGA we've got a mini HDMI to
HDMI these are goldplated this uh well the HDMI one is this one's not the HDMI
one is a goldplated adapter though that's kind of nice little extras go a
long way so we've got dual Molex to PCI E8 pin and then we've got dual MOX to
PCI E6 pin just in case you don't have the appropriate PCI Express slots on
your or slots connectors on your power supply although if you're still using a
power Supply that's only got Molex connectors to plug into your graphics
card it's probably time to think about upgrading
anywho so let's go
ahead and get this opened up and I will get into what is very interesting about
this particular video card so the 570 is still by All rights a high performance
graphics card but it's always had a bit of a disadvantage in the market compared
to its competition from AMD and that is
that the GTX 570 has never supported
more than two displays out at a time for
surround gaming unless you buy two of them so how did Galaxy see fit to
address this we'll check this out they put four DVI connectors One Mini HDMI as
well although that's less relevant and I'll talk about that in a little bit four DVI connectors on this card making
it capable of driving up to
three displays in surround plus an additional monitor which is very very
cool I mean I I I suppose you could run four displays at a time but that
wouldn't be very beneficial cuz you'd have a bezel like right in the middle so
this is a gaming card it's intended for gaming so I'm going to go ahead and say
that I think the intended use is probably for three displays at 1080p in
a surround gaming mode so how have they achieved this well one they have a
custom designed card so you can see this is a complete complely non- reference
card with four DVI connectors on it as
well as an aftermarket cooler so here
there you go you guys can have a look at the cooler so it's got an 80 mm fan and
a very beefy and very heavy heat sink going on here so check this out we've
got one two heat pipes three heat pipes
it's hard to kind of see those in there uh how many heat pipes do we have total
can you see in there four heat pipes total I think it's four heat pipes total
yeah yeah so four heat pipes total including uh so two coming out to the
left here or to the right and then two coming out to the left very dense
aluminum thin array on both sides as
well as a downward draft fan that is actually very cleverly positioned
because it's almost directly over the pwm so while we can use these heat pipes
that are positioned directly above the GPU to distribute that heat to the rest
of the fins we use the Fan's direct Cooling in order to keep the voltage
Regulators cool enough so that's pretty
much it for that part of the card so let's get back to the display so you
have a couple different options you can run them normally so you can see there's
dvii DVID D1 dvi2 and DVID D3 you can
either run two dvis three
dvis two dvis and an HDMI or you can run
four dvis or three dvis and an HDMI and I'll be back in a sec so
there's a fair bit of Hocus Pocus that is going on with this particular
graphics card so in order to achieve the whole triple monitor gaming thing
because really that's how many monitors you can span a single virtual display
much like the way ifinity works we've got these numbered ones so we've got
DVID 1 2 and 3 and these guys are only good up to 1920 x 1080 if you're running
three at a time so bear that in mind 1080p monitors are the most you're going
to be able to do triple displays on however it should be noted that with a
GTX 570 level graphics card unless you're running more than one card you're
probably only going to want 3 1080p monitors anyway you're not going to run
33 in off something like this okay so you either run two displays plus one
which runs off either of these or you run three displays plus one that runs
off either of these so this is great for I used to play a fair bit of Supreme
Commander so if I wanted to run triple Monitor and then have my mini map
displayed on an additional one that is how I would do it because Supreme
Commander was multi-display capable whereas if you have a game like race
driver grid you would only be able to run it off one Monitor and then you
might be able to have like task manager or whatever displayed it depends on whether the game is multi-display
compatible or not so these guys create one virtual display these guys are a
secondary monitor so I hope that that's clear now Galaxy does provide a couple
pieces of software the both the wind split as well as the easy easy y easyy
display software settings so you can use that in in order to configure everything
properly because it's not built into the GeForce driver this is a Galaxy
exclusive technology which is one of the reasons I don't know if you guys have noticed but this is the first time I've
ever looked at a Galaxy card but this is one of the reasons why I think this one
is so neat because unlike any other gForce card other than the GTX 590 which
is kind of cheating because it has two gpus on it to achieve its surround
gaming Glory this one supports surround
so it is a direct competitor and it is completely feature competitive against
any AMD card because not only does it have 3D Vision and all that good stuff
it also has ifinity which I don't know
what to call it I mean we'll call it NVIDIA surround I guess cuz that's what it's called when you have two cards but
it's got it on a single card so since I've never talked about Galaxy before I
should probably mention a couple other things so they've got 247 365 tech
support for us and Canada only I don't know about other territories guys
extreme tuner HD so they've got some overclocking software they also have a
oneclick easy y buttons Ultra simple multi display window management so
that's that software that they included and then they've also got a couple of
other cool things so they've got a dual BIOS we're used to seeing these on motherboards now but it's not that often
we see it on graphics cards AMD has started doing it on some of their cards
on the very high end but here we go there's galaxy adding it to uh NVIDIA
cards when no one else has it power meter allows you to monitor the entire
card's status and power consumption and voltage settings so for full control for
extreme overclockers I don't know how many extreme overclockers are going to
need a card like this because they aren't typically running four displays at a time but there you go I guess the
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