1 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,840 so today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the MSI GTX 2 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:19,960 560 that's it no ti so this is a 560 non 3 00:00:18,119 --> 00:00:24,400 TI It features their twin frozer 2 cooler it is an OC Edition card so it 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,920 has the uh well it has some justification for the twin frozer cooler 5 00:00:26,119 --> 00:00:31,960 cuz they have turned up the clock speeds it features their military Class 2 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:35,640 concept which means using higher quality components in order to increase 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:41,280 longevity increase overclocking all that good stuff it's only 30 DB Under full 8 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:45,440 load uh MSI says and I believe that the twin frozer 2 is an excellent cooler I 9 00:00:43,559 --> 00:00:50,039 just think it's awesome all right we've got a threeyear warranty in the US and 10 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:52,719 Canada and Mexico don't know where else 11 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:58,160 uh the warranties apply or don't apply okay it is 3D Vision ready features fizx 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Cuda NVIDIA SLI up to two-way SLI on 13 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,879 this particular GPU and it has full support for MSI After Burner you also 14 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:09,159 get a copy of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light this is a steam copy 15 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,880 so it's quite easy to activate all right 16 00:01:09,159 --> 00:01:14,920 opening this up you can see a little bit more information about exactly the stuff 17 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:20,360 that I just said and I'm pretty familiar with the twin frozer 2 cooler so I think 18 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:22,439 I can go in blind on that one without uh 19 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:29,439 seeing what MSI has to say for themselves so the gtx560 non-ti so this 20 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:32,280 is just a slightly cut down uh card with 21 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:37,920 a same basic GPU so the performance is close but not quite what you're going to 22 00:01:34,399 --> 00:01:42,439 get out of a GTX 560 TI full-fledged 23 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:44,560 card but it's cheaper so there you go 24 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:53,439 features uh not features comes with a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter a DVI to VGA 25 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:56,799 adapter a quick user guide some useless 26 00:01:53,439 --> 00:02:00,759 disc there's your lar coft game as well 27 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:04,399 as your driver update guide all right so 28 00:02:00,759 --> 00:02:06,079 go ahead and put this back in and then 29 00:02:04,399 --> 00:02:10,920 put this back in and let's have a look at the product itself here oh no no more 30 00:02:08,239 --> 00:02:16,800 accessories so dual Molex two single six pin PCIe connectors two of them and 31 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:16,800 finally the card 32 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:31,480 itself comes in an anti-static 33 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,800 bag twin frozer 2 cooler hasn't changed 34 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:38,560 much you know what give me two seconds I'm going to grab a 560 35 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:40,840 TI yeah I forgot my 560 uh twin frozer 2 36 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,480 560 TI twin frozer 2 I got to be careful with that from now on my 560 TI twin 37 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:48,280 frozer 2 is part of the prize system I'm giving away so it's upstairs I'm not 38 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:53,400 going to go get it but this is a GTX 460 Hawk and it uses the same PCB as the 560 39 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:57,680 TI twin frozer 2 so you can see that it also uses the same PCB you can see the 40 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:04,080 hawk is actually covered up right here as the GTX 560 twin frozer 2 so there's 41 00:03:01,239 --> 00:03:07,000 no real changes in terms of the physical layout of this board but I'm going to 42 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:13,120 walk you through it anyway we've got a couple of 92 mm low profile fans so this 43 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:17,239 allows MSI to maintain a two slot profile while putting in a dual fan 44 00:03:15,519 --> 00:03:22,200 custom cooled cooler solution all right we've 45 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,879 got two super pipes so here's your two regular heat pipes in the middle of the 46 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:29,319 GPU and the two super pipes are going out further away from the GPU because 47 00:03:27,959 --> 00:03:33,959 they do need to carry heat a little bit more efficiently because they are going 48 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:40,319 over a greater distance you've got your standard PCIe 16x interface down 49 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:45,280 here as well as what the heck is this this looks like uh it's got a couple of 50 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:50,159 purposes okay so oh that's something new all right so you can see on the GTX 460 51 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:56,079 here there's uh nothing here and on the GTX 560 twin frozer too 52 00:03:54,360 --> 00:04:01,280 there is a heat sink here so that would be for the uh the voltage Regulators so 53 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,879 I guess MSI has just uh beefed up the design a little bit here and it looks 54 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:09,920 like it's also going to provide some additional yeah here if you look at it from this side you can see it actually 55 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,200 wraps around the end of the PCB and it that should provide some stiffness to 56 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:16,400 the card as well and that won't be the only thing that provides stiffness to 57 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:22,560 the card so you can see up here they're using their uh PCB stiffener actually 58 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,360 they have a name for this that I've just 59 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:30,440 forgotten and it looks like they haven't included it on the on the box either 60 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:34,919 which makes my life more difficult but um basically what it is is it's a piece 61 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:38,120 of metal that allows the card to be more rigid overall so you can't you can't 62 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,680 really Flex the PCB you know what why don't we compare it against the 460 so 63 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:46,880 here you can see how much Flex there is in it right okay so let's compare that 64 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:51,000 to the 460 I'll hold that the same way and I'm just going to pinch it the same 65 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:54,639 way so you can see how that PCB can Flex quite a bit more now especially if 66 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:59,600 you're moving your system around or shipping it remember it's only secured 67 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:04,000 by the PCIe slot and by the two screws up here so if the card is not very stiff 68 00:05:02,039 --> 00:05:08,520 over here there can be a lot of a lot of movement which can cause it to I mean 69 00:05:06,479 --> 00:05:12,360 I've even heard of cards in shipping mind you uh before they used spring 70 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:16,039 mounted screws on the backs of video cards this is why everyone started doing 71 00:05:14,039 --> 00:05:21,400 it where the coolers actually coming off from vibration and from movement it can 72 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:23,120 also cause undue strain uh on the PCIe 73 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,400 slot and on the screws if you don't have that stiffening piece there so that's uh 74 00:05:25,039 --> 00:05:31,919 that's one thing that they have added to this card versus the 460 we've got dual 75 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:35,800 six pin PCIe connectors on the back of the card so it should have support for 76 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:40,759 almost any power supply any modern power supply should be able to run this card 77 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:42,880 just fine here's your four pin pwm fan 78 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:48,319 control uh at the top of the board you do find your SLI Bridge connector so 79 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:53,039 there is just one which means two-way SLI not three-way SLI the back of the 80 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:58,039 card looks pretty much like we've come to expect from anything using this 81 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:01,960 particular PCB you guys are welcome to uh look for the if you want but I 82 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:08,680 suspect you will not find any differences between the appearance of 83 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:11,240 the 460 Hawk and the GTX twin frozer 2 84 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:14,160 560 GTX twin frozer 2 these these names are getting very confusing I have to 85 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:20,280 confess all right on the back of the card you find dual DVI if I can ever get 86 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:24,400 this connector plug cover thing off as well as mini HDMI so that's why you have 87 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,479 that adapter now about the twin frozer 2 cooler you can see here there are some 88 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:33,240 vent holes so you're going to have a little bit of heat being expelled outside of the cas but most of it is 89 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:37,560 going to be expelled inside the case so there's always compromises to be made 90 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:41,400 and the compromise MSI has made is they have opted for lower overall G GPU 91 00:06:39,919 --> 00:06:46,360 temperatures which should result in better overclocking at the by 92 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,560 sacrificing the overall case temperatures a little bit so you want to 93 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:52,840 make sure you got a decently ventilated case with good cooling fans and you 94 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:58,080 shouldn't run into any problems thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 95 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:59,599 GTX 560 non-ti don't forget to subscribe 96 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:04,280 to Linus Tech tips from more unboxing reviews and other computer 97 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,280 videos