welcome to my unboxing and first look at the MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC so this is an
overclocked version of this already very
fast very well overclockable hence the
uh the factory overclocked editions of the card that are available at launch
GPU so this is using the GK 104 GPU from
NVIDIA which is the same one that is used in their Flagship single GPU card
the GTX 680 but the only difference is they've cut back some of the Cuda course
and they have that's about it they dialed back
the frequency a little bit but you look at guys like MSI going and releasing
1.04 5 GHz graphics cards and the
frequency isn't dialed back at all
so what what what am I going to say right because that's the only difference
the uh the memory is still clocked at 6 GHz and it is still using a 256-bit bus
which is the first time we've seen that in quite a while I mean GTX 570 had the
memory bus cut back from the 580 the 470
had the memory bus cut back from the 480
and then even going back to the 260 was cut back from the uh from the 280 so
yeah this is yeah this is like a totally totally new thing for us to see that
NVIDIA didn't do that moving right along
GPU boost is supported which means that it will dynamically adjust the clock
speed of your graphics card according to the power and heat attributes that it is
aiming for so whatever targets it'll just ramp things up according to how
much headro it has left this guy comes with a DVI VGA adapter two dual Molex to
single PCI E6 pin adapters a driver disc which you shouldn't use just download
the latest as well as
a whatever this is Quick Start guide and
then another quick start guide awesome this is a really old character I don't
think they've used that one since like G4 6,000 Series so this this guide must
be uh sort of recycled here but you know there's no point if it ain't broke don't
fix it right new graphics card doesn't necessarily mean the rules for plugging
in a PCI Express card change am I right
okay so let's get this baby opened up I
can already see some trademark MSI stuff going on over here there are little blue
covers for the uh connectors as well as
the uh display ports and the ports that
you connect to displays that are not called DisplayPort uh as well as their
also somewhat trademark almost black PCB which you'll see on like other MSI
products such as the GTX 560 TI Hawk see
not quite black but still looks really slick in your case just going to put
that aside for now um what am I missing
here right
two gigs right it has two gigs of memory which means that even if you're running a surround configuration you should
still be okay I mean yeah the Radeon
ht750 if you're especially if you're running three high resolution displays
might perform a little bit better in your given game but you're going to be
missing the 3D Vision surround support as well as fizx and all the other
exclusive NVIDIA Technologies including their txaa modes which give you better
image quality but with a lesser performance hit compared to traditional
multi sampling anti Elia sync as well as adaptive vsync which gives you
especially in those multi-display configurations this can be a big problem
because vsync if you go above the display above the refresh rate of your
monitor will cause tearing which means that instead of being aligned things
will look kind of like this in the middle of your screen and if you go below it has to use a multiple of or a
um a factor of your refresh rate so that
means if you are capable of running at 55 FPS it'll chalk you all the way down
to 30 because you're running vsync so
it'll turn it adaptive vsync turns it on when you're up there and off when you're
down here so you can get the most out of your graphics card three plus one
displays are supported so we've got HDMI
DisplayPort and then two DVI ports so you can run three of those in 3D Vision
surround and then one auxiliary display for you know system monitoring utilities
or whatever else that you need to show on that for display so that is right up
to four displays 4k monitor support as well as HDMI 1.4a gives you 3D over
HDMI as well as a very efficient PCB
design so you can see NVIDIA's reference design which is what this card is using
even though it is Factory overclock so it is slightly non-reference is a very
very short PCB and NVIDIA has relocated the power delivery to the other side of
the GPU which is something that we haven't really seen before except on you
know dual GPU cards where they don't really have a choice and they have to
kind of Reagle things uh pretty differently compared to a single GPU
card multiple SLI connectors means we are compatible with multi-way SLI
configurations and we are also using PCI Express 3.0 the card is also as you can
clearly see fully capable of supporting up to 4 gigs of memory without any
difficulty so that would be a great configuration two 4 gig cards with a
three monitor setup means you're going to have enough memory to store all the
textures that you need as well as the Uber horsepower that you need from the
gpus themselves in order to drive that kind of a resolution so for anyone
considering an SLI configuration for the GTX 670 I would definitely recommend
going with the 4 Gig cards if you're going to have multiple monitors or even
one high resolution monitor such as that one that's a 30-in monitor running at
2560 x600 I think that pretty much covers it
this card uses a blower design it's a reference card so almost all of the heat
that is is accumulated here and cooled
here is going to be exhausted out the back of the case much like the 680
NVIDIA has redesigned things somewhat in order to give you more dead space
between the io Shield as and the heat sink itself so that just gives you
slightly better air flow out the back of the card and just as like a quick length
comparison it's just a little shorter than a GTX 680 although if you had a
smaller heat sink on it your your water cool it or something I bet you could fit this in a very
very small case without any difficulty whatsoever which is really
cool I think that pretty much wraps it up so what is it it's a cheaper slightly
less powerful although overclockable to the point where you could get similar
performance to a 680 card it's starting to look like pretty darn good value
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