welcome to my unboxing of yes I have already done a Galaxy GeForce GTX 670
unboxing but I'm about to do another one because this is a non reference GTX 670
so this one uses the reference design PCB which is the short PCB with the long
cooler the uh the blower cooler that exhausts the air out the back and this
guy is slightly different so although the spec X are pretty similar this one
is slightly overclocked so it's at 1
GHz this one's overclocked right yeah it's overclocked factory overclocked to
just over 1 GHz still using 6 GHz memory
just like the GTX 670 and the GTX 680 before it includes all the usual
features such as the new txaa modes which give you the same look
as as older types of anti-aliasing with
a lesser performance hit also includes
um GPU boost which dynamically adjusts the clock speed of your GPU according to
how much thermal headro as well as power headro is available to it adaptive vsync
which gives you the best of both worlds in terms of whether your frame rate is
above your refresh rate it'll turn on vsync and then if it falls below then it
turns vsync off to optimize your performance also is very very power
efficient especially considering that it's a high-end GPU uh which is
something that you know in in in Generations past was not really a
priority for the you know the two big GPU makers out there and I'm sure you
guys know who I'm talking about and looks like I never brought my test bench
in here so I can't hold up my 8800 Ultra but that was uh definitely an example of
performance at any cost compared to what we're seeing these days with these power
efficient high performance graphics cards we've got a couple of dual Molex
to six pin PCIe connectors power connectors as well as a DVI to VGA
adapter a users manual and installation guide as well well as a graphics drivers
DVD is included with this card did I
miss any features probably it has 2 gigs of memory
1,344 Kuda cor a 256-bit memory
interface making it a very high-end card
compared to what we normally see in terms of how cut down the step down from
the flagship single GPU card is so for example on the GTX 570 we saw a clock
speed reduction and we've got a clock speed reduction here although a fairly
less significant one especially for these Factory overclocked cards so we've
got a clock speed reduction we've got a decrease in the number of cacor but
um okay I guess that's probably oh yeah right right right right right whereas
with previous generation products we also saw decreases in the memory
frequency for example uh and I think that pretty much covers it GPU
boost right right three plus1 displays are supported with NVIDIA 3D Vision
surround or just regular surround and then an auxiliary display we've got dual
DVI output HDMI as well as DisplayPort
we've also got support for 4K monitors and HDMI 1.4a which means you got your
3D and all that good stuff and this is
about as non reference as a cooler gets so we've got actually some really cool
branding elements going on here so GeForce GTX 670 Kepler that is the code
name you normally never see the code name on a final product like that so I
think that's kind of a nice touch this is also oh this is metal shroud so we've
got an aluminum shroud around 2 92 mm
cooling fans on a very very nice looking
heat sink r a radiator style heat sink so it's got four heat pipes you can see
the copper base of it right in there with the four heat pipes coming out this
is a 2 gig card so uh let me see y all
the memory is installed on the other side it looks like this is actually
using what PCB design is this
using huh cool so I did didn't know that
this wasn't going to be a reference PCB and you can see how different they are
I'm going to prop this one up right here okay so there's a reference PCB which is
this short galaxy has seriously beefed this
thing up compared to the reference design card so they've moved the power
delivery back over to this side whereas NV video on their reference card put it
over here they have just seriously amped
up the cooling involved I mean the uh
the aluminum cooling portion I I don't know if you're going to be able to see
it you know you guys aren't going to be able to see it but on the reference card it's you know about yay big whereas on
this card you can see that it is about yay big and then they have um they have
also added a six pin and 8 Pin PCIe
power connector compared to the Dual six pins that were on the reference card and
I don't remember oh right right because I was confused look at this they've
actually added like ventilation holes in
the PCB and I can show you why they've done that because you can see some of the power delivery components over here
have gaps very small gaps I'm going to try and get you guys a better angle here
very small gaps between these guys and this allows air flow to go over them
more naturally than if there if than if it was just a straight A straight dead
stop for the air and it didn't really have anywhere to go so that's really cool I haven't seen that
before very neat okay so let's move on uh does support multi-way SLI
configurations hence the two SLI connectors up at the top and it's got
just a very sort of neat look to it little Galaxy like line squiggly thing
going on over here I already mentioned we've got the uh six pin and 8 Pin PCIe
connectors this is a completely non-reference card I would expect this to run significantly cooler than the
reference design which isn't to say that the GTX 570 isn't a cool running card
already but when you've got two 92 mm fans as opposed to one what is that a 60
mil 70 mil fan then you can expect it to run quieter run cooler however the
caveat is that you need to make sure you have a case with decent air flow because
because this guy isn't going to exhaust all of the air out the back of your
computer whereas this one will so some of the exhausted air that cooled the GPU
is going to stay inside your case as long as you have lots of case fans you
should still be fine so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for
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