want to see something funny I bet if I go like this you can see crazy Russian
so he wanted me to say that this is085
gigz which it is this is the EVGA GTX
580 FTW Hydro copper 2 so it is for the win
which means that it is an evga's highest tier of
overclocked Highly bined chips okay so
it's a For the Win It Is hydro which means that it uses liquid cooling it is
copper which should be fairly self-explanatory and it is
two so it must be the second one so the first thing we see on the front of the
box is that EVGA is the number one seller of NVIDIA based products in the
US they're very proud of that and so they should be we have 3D Vision
surround support fys X direct 11 SLI Cuda a bunch of stuff that's not on here
um even three-way and four-way SLI is
supported by this particular card let's see what evj has to say for themselves
on the back it does support their Precision Tool for overclocking as well
as their free OC Scanner so this Precision in particular is a very very
useful little uh little feature we have full support for 3D Vision including 3D
Vision surround okay so I did mention that before I didn't think I did but
actually I had already all right let's open this up and oh we've got some seals
to break here that is something that I
do like to do oh hold on just got that running in the
background there okay let's break the seal and have a look at this very fast
very expensive graphics card so it comes
in a sleeve this is more of a traditional older style video card
box all right then it comes in a box
which will contain nothing there maybe this was
here maybe this was also here maybe these are supposed to be here see let's
try it like this and see if that works better see what what if I opened it like
that okay that doesn't really maybe that's why they didn't put them in there
all right hose clamps and Barbs are provided to properly position the barbs
and stop fittings follow the diagram below okay I'll explain that in a
minute all right we got one of those posters I've shown you guys this a
number of times but I guess uh I'll show
you again oh no wait oh no it's the same old one never mind the skull there you
go okay so let's just close Mr skull
back up here and uh there we are okay
the next thing we find inside is a bunch of useless stuff basically that's how to
install a graphics card in a PCIe slot and a driver disc which you shouldn't
use you should download the latest off NVIDIA.com next we have ouri mini HDMI
to HDMI cable this is great because it means that if you plug in a fullsize
HDMI cable you will not um interfere
with the DVI slot that is next over we have a dual six pin PCIe to 8 Pin PCIe
adapter and a dual Molex to six pin PCIe
adapter just in case your power supply does not have native support for this
card we've got a DVI to VGA adapter seriously you should not be using that
VGA out on a card of this caliber just
buy yourself a new monitor already okay next we have
barbs all right so for those of you who aren't familiar with water cooling we
got a few different things here we have two 1/2 in stubby fittings Barb fittings
okay so what makes them stubby is that they're shorter than a traditional
longer Barb okay what makes them/ inch is the uh outer diameter of the flange
here on the Barb and they got over rings in here to make sure that they don't
leak these are G1 quarter threaded so they will be compatible with this and
most other blocks on the market you've also got 38 barbs so these are for if
you are running 38 tubing inside your water cooling loop I actually use 38
tubing so these are the ones that I would use in theory but I would probably
upgrade them to compressions instead of barbs these are stop fittings so stop
fittings go everywhere where you don't put a Barb so let's explain that diagram
real quick here okay so you can either put them in
this way so you see the stop fittings there so the water flows in around the
loop blah blah blah blah blah and then comes out here or you can go this way so
it's in from the top and then go comes out this way so basically the stop
fittings have to always go opposite wherever you put a Barb so that it
doesn't just flow straight through without passing through the block to
cool the GPU and the RAM and everything because this is a full cover
block ways about oh wow that's heavy
they weren't kidding when they said it was made of copper so full cover blocks cool not
only the GPU itself which used to be how we did video card water cooling but also
the memory power delivery all of that
good stuff full cover blocks are pretty much the
shizel I'm a big fan of full cover blocks and I do run one in my own system
at home I actually did a video where I showed you guys how to install a full
cover block it's a bit of a process so there is definitely something to be said
for buying a card like this from EVGA
which is bin higher than most GTX 580s
and also comes equipped with a water
block right out of the box which means you don't have to install it you don't
have to worry about any complications with your warranty from installing it
not to say EVGA won't warranty you if you install a different card but you
know if you break it and it's your own fault they certainly won't be able to help you right so uh here we go we've
got a nickel plated copper base with more plastic on it there we
are this is made by swifttech you can see here powered by swifttech it has a
delin top now delin has the advantage of being more durable than acrylic so
acrylic and delin are the two main materials that you see used for the tops
of blocks it is less liable to crack
where you insert the Barb so here I'm going to throw a 38 inch Barb in there
okay um oh one of other things I've note
about this card is it is single slot check that out so there's your mini HDMI
there's your DVI there's your DVI and there's your custom single slot uh PCI
bracket so that is a pretty awesome thing which means you could in theory I
mean if you were doing like a folding rig install as many as what like what's
the highest number six would be like a classified sr2 6 PCIe 16x slots seven
seven ASUS WS Evolution okay you can install a whole lot of these in one
system at time should you so desire although you'd have to get some custom
fittings these ones wouldn't quite work if you were putting cards right next to
each other uh let's have a look at the back so it does include evga's back
plate for the GTX 580 this is not a custom PCB 580 it's just a very highly
bended one that has a custom cooler and a custom back plate on it so you can see
we've got little holes for ventilation here and it's also making contact
probably with some of the key components on the back that do need to be cooled or
maybe it's just for looks even making cont with
anything maybe it this just for looks I actually don't know interesting okay
we've got two SLI fingers with support for two-way three-way and four-way
SLI on the bottom we find our standard PCIe 16x slot interface and moving over
back to the front we can just kind of look at the card some more cuz it's a
very very slick slim sexy looking card
looks great
that's pretty much all there is to it it's like awesome oh yeah 8 Pin and six
pin PCIe power connectors are needed for this particular board and uh just so you
guys know you will need water cooling you will need a water cooling setup in
order to run this card you can't just buy this if you don't already have
liquid cooling so you're going to want a pump a radiator a reservoir and some
fans in order to make this
function I think that's pretty much it thank you for check out my unboxing of
the GTX 580 FTW hydrocopper 2 don't
forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other
computer videos and also when you are fastening your barbs don't overdo it
they should be kind of once it starts to get snug turn it maybe another quarter
to half of a turn and that is pretty much it you don't want to rip the threads out just my little water cooling
tip for you guys for the day 85 gz