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yes another retro unboxing today we will

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be unboxing the EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS

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super super clocked Edition 256 megabyte

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PCIe direct X10 ready with a big circle

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direct X10 ready hdcp capable back when anyone cared about that video card it is

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SLI ready it is Graphics by NVIDIA and it has a free copy of enemy territory

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Quake Wars inside it also includes EVGA 90-day stepup program which probably

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isn't valid for this card anymore I'm thinking because it's pretty old okay

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SLI ready full direct X10 support blah blah blah this is all the same stuff we

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saw before high dynamic range lighting wow two dual link DVI output support two

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2560 x600 resolution displays wow uh

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what else do we got here okay lifetime warranty really comes with a lifetime

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warranty upon product registration well that's pretty cool pretty cool for like

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a relatively low-end card all right make sure these two stickers match up before

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you buy this card let's open this baby up there we

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are break that seal like nobody's

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business designed for extreme HD

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gaming not anymore it isn't but it

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was I hated this packaging from EVGA back when they used to package cards

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like this because it was impossible because of the the lips on the plastic

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to put it back in without catching the uh the tab here so then you could never

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put this stupid card back in the box if you wanted to um which is a problem when

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you're a professional unboxer like me okay the folder contains evj K stickers

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and installation CD with trial software and an installation guide so throw that

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CD away download the latest drivers off the NVIDIA website because I can pretty

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much guarantee you this is a really old driver at this point all right so let's

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go ahead and throw this back in there

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evga's packaging has really come a long way since then okay enemy territory

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Quake Wars um okay not a super relevant

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game anymore oo look at this we got one of those uh component out thingamajiggy

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Bobs that could be useful not all right

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we've got two Molex to single PCIe power

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adapter we've got an S video out cable

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that could be useful not okay then we've got two DVI to VGA adapters because back

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then most people were still running VGA monitors well not maybe not most but

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many gamers were still running VGA monitors even if they were buying new

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gaming graphics cards all right so here I'm just going to put this aside put

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this aside put this on a side and bring

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it over here and we'll have a look at the 8600 GTS now I don't remember

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exactly what the difference

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was between the 8600 GTS and the 8600 GT

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but um my understanding is it's something to do with lower memory on the GTS and a

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higher clock speed or something like that and the performance was fairly

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similar now there's a very good reason actually that I'm doing this particular

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retro unboxing but I'm going to get to that after I have a look at the overall

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layout of the card so this is from back when gaming cards could actually be

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single slot so you can see here we've got just a single fan here we've got a

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nice little cooler I don't know if it includes any heat pipes it looks like it

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doesn't just a typical thin cooler and it actually exhausts all of the air

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either out the back of the cooler here or um probably more of it comes out of

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the top of it here so that's going to be maybe a bit of an issue for the card

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the next one down because as I recall the 8600 did round a little on the

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toasty side but shouldn't be that big of a deal especially with the ventilation

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that you get in most decent gaming cases the SLI Bridge used to be located in a

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fairly different location compared to what we see now where the SLI bridge is

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usually right about here and there might be a secondary one here on many cards uh

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we've got a single PCIe six pin power connector we've got some capacitors and

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voltage regulation we've got a PCI Express 16x slot that the card runs off

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of and then up here where we would typically these days see DVI DVI and

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mini HDMI we now see that s video and

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component output thing as to go along with the

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two um dual link DVI ports on the back

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of the card we find nothing really of Interest and that's pretty much it so

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why did I do this unboxing the reason is

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that I wanted to compare a card from a few years ago to a card that cost the

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same today as this one did a few years

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ago and I want to do what I did with the GTX 560 TI launch with the 550 TI launch

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so I'm going to take that card from a few years ago in the similar price

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bracket and I'm going to say okay let's say you own one of these or you own an

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8600 GT or some other similar class of GPU what kind of an image quality

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improvement what kind of a gameplay Improvement are you going to see by

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upgrading to a current generation similar directx11 GPU such as the 550 TI

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so thank you for checking out this unboxing of the 8600 GTS super super

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clocked don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings

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reviews and other videos especially if you do want to see that image quality

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comparison I'll likely use crisis just because it's uh you know a pretty

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demanding game I might use Metro 2033 haven't really decided yet but

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definitely subscribe if you want to make sure that you catch that image quality

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comparison between the 550 TI or taii

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and the old 88 U 88 8600 GTS super super

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claw