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welcome to my unboxing and first look at pretty much the baller GTX 680 out there

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at this point in time this is the MSI lightning edition featuring unlocked

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digital power yes uh threeyear warranty as well but yes lightning edition cards

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have triple over voltage which means that unlike regular Kepler video cards

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that is to say everyone's Kepler video cards except MSI power edition cards

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lightning edition cards or any cards that feature their triple over voltage

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technology uh wait so the other ones cannot overvolt the GPU cannot so your

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overclocking will always be limited MSI has unlocked that capability allowing

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you to like break world records and more importantly than Breaking World Records

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just actually get all the performance that you can get out of your video card

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so you this one's got oh yeah GPU reactor as well which is more for

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subzero overclocking but I'll show you guys that after unlocked BIOS to remove

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all protections including active phase switching uh over current protection and

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thermal design power restrictions bam

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remove it all enhan power design giving you two times the power output 12 phase

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pwm design independent memory power and lightning power layer whatever that

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means but it's probably an additional layer to the PCB or something for cleaner signaling digital pwm controller

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for more precise voltage control etc etc most of the other cards don't even need

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this stuff because you can't overvolt them anyway 3x3 OC kit so with v

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checkpoints so you can manually check voltages with a multimeter triple over

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voltage and triple temp monitor so you can monitor the GPU the memory and the

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vrm with afterburner afterburner by the way is my favorite video card

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overclocking software Bar None it's just the best um okay all military class

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three components you got your copper Moss High SE caps golden solid state

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chokes and dark solid caps I mean I think that's a bit of a you know okay

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okay you don't need you know a gold layer on your solid state chok but looks

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baller so whatever dust removal Technologies included with the twin twin

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frozer 4 cooler it's got super pipes dual 10 cm pwm fans high density fins

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which are good and bad it depends uh dual form in one heat sinks you know

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what let's go ahead and get this baby opened up this is uh this is a card that

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I've been very excited to have a look at here so in terms of accessories you got

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waa a bunch of stuff um okay so you got a couple six pin to 8

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Pin PCIe power connectors you got your V checkpoint cables so you can adapt those

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out to something that's compatible with your multimeter got VGA or DVI to VGA

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adapter but get rid of that long flexible black SLI Bridge the very best

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kind as well as a certificate of working

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quality and stability uh quick users guide drivers that you should throw away

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and download the latest from the NVIDIA website

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and the beastly card itself so let's

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just uh put this back together no that okay I don't need

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that uh yeah yeah don't worry I'm going to do that for sure okay Slick's just

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gesturing to me mostly obscene gestures

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but it's okay I forgive him I give him a

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hard time about things so you he's got to get back at me every once in a while

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all right lightning card Oh I thought this one had three power connectors I in

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fact I even said it did in another video but don't mind me this has two PCIe 8

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Pin power connectors two 10 cm fans and

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these are actually deeper fans than I'm used to seeing on video cards as well

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they have a bit more well depth to them they're also using their propeller

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blades which are more efficient blades and they have these plastic tips at the

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end that are supposed to reduce noise increase efficiency and uh generally be

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better it will spin this way on Startup which will pull some of the air out

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that's you know lodged into the heat sink out of it before it turns on which

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should in theory keep the heat sink

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pretty much dust free as long as you power cycle your computer every once in a while and I've seen this work in

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action with actually not an MSI card but with one of their competitor's cards

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that features this counter rotating boot up technology so it'll be a little loud

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at the start but you know don't be phased by that it's all good it'll uh

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it'll it'll quiet down as soon as it starts spinning the right way huge

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cooling potential check this out so the radiator fins the aluminum fins go all

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the way from here all the way down to here all the way to the back of the card

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that isn't an enormous cooler for a

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single GPU I mean that amount of surface area could probably be handling a dual

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GPU graphics card at this point super pipes are also included see that's these

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thicker heat pipes here that are carrying the heat much further away from

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the GPU core itself right there there's a GK 104 Graphics core that's the Kepler

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GPU that's featured in all the high-end graphics cards 670s 680s 690s all that

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good stuff you've also got okay this is one of the most uh rigid cards I've

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encountered you can see it has almost no flex to it no matter what I do and

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that's for a couple of reasons number one they've got a unisyn covering the

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vrm and the memory components check that

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out thick metal all the way here all the

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way up here giving it an amazing amount of structural rigidity all the way here

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there's those golden uh golden guys right there Golden Girls Golden Years

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Wonder Years I don't know where I'm going with this and it also has a full

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back plate so there's a little bit of ventilation hole going on here around

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the pwm as well as just you know General

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back Pless more better so this is GP reactor you don't have to keep it on you

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can take it off if you want but what it does is it basically builds more com

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more components into the very back of the GPU then they would otherwise

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physically be able to fit just as a little addin daughter board so like I

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said you take it off if you want you can leave it on if you want it's more useful

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for subzero and extreme overclocking and no I want to put it back on I think he's

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G me a hard time about this you're failing well yeah I'm failing at it but

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I'll succeed see all right you can actually Orient this however you want as

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well so I'm going to do it this way cuz once it's installed I want everything to

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be right side up MSI lightning there's also blue LEDs behind it that look

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pretty cool as well be noted that the improper installation of GPU reactor

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card may cause damage to the graphics card yeah that stands to reason so PCI

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Express 3.0 um data connector two SLI

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connectors for up to four-way SLI functionality if you had four of these

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in one system even I would be jealous at that point to be perfectly honest uh

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supports up to three plus one displays so you got dual DVI HDMI and display

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port out on the back of the card little bit of ventilation coming out the back but this is by and large an internal uh

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exhaust card and that color scheme oh my

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goodness because we actually recently

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unboxed the MSI Big Bang M Power

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motherboard

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and if this doesn't get your geek juices

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flowing I don't know what can because as

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far as air cooled configs go that is about as Beast looking as it gets here

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you got to get you got to get this angle from like back there so you can like see

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that and oh here I'll just no I'll rearrange it so you can see like the

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yellow ACC I actually really like the yellow accents on the board as well as

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on the video card itself that just like that's like Hardware the only way that

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this could be more like porn is if I was pulling off all of the heat sinks

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because but then you wouldn't even have like the color coordination

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anyway so yeah I mean you know even if you get one of their slightly lower end

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cards featuring a twin frozer cooler with like a blue Accent on let's see

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what that looks like one way or another I think we can all agree that going with

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like an all MSI sort of look and feel here is probably a good thing they have

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like just so figured out the whole Aesthetics thing in the last little

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while here I love it so I think that pretty much covers it the important

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things to remember this GTX 680 will overclock better than other GTX 680s

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period because you can overvolt the GPU this is very important to remember

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especially if you're spending a lot of money on a GPU you want to get the most

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performance out of it this is pretty much the way to go so thank you for

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checking out my unboxing and first look at the MSI GTX 680 lightning edition

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