so today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the MSI GTX
560 that's it no ti so this is a 560 non
TI It features their twin frozer 2 cooler it is an OC Edition card so it
has the uh well it has some justification for the twin frozer cooler
cuz they have turned up the clock speeds it features their military Class 2
concept which means using higher quality components in order to increase
longevity increase overclocking all that good stuff it's only 30 DB Under full
load uh MSI says and I believe that the twin frozer 2 is an excellent cooler I
just think it's awesome all right we've got a threeyear warranty in the US and
Canada and Mexico don't know where else
uh the warranties apply or don't apply okay it is 3D Vision ready features fizx
Cuda NVIDIA SLI up to two-way SLI on
this particular GPU and it has full support for MSI After Burner you also
get a copy of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light this is a steam copy
so it's quite easy to activate all right
opening this up you can see a little bit more information about exactly the stuff
that I just said and I'm pretty familiar with the twin frozer 2 cooler so I think
I can go in blind on that one without uh
seeing what MSI has to say for themselves so the gtx560 non-ti so this
is just a slightly cut down uh card with
a same basic GPU so the performance is close but not quite what you're going to
get out of a GTX 560 TI full-fledged
card but it's cheaper so there you go
features uh not features comes with a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter a DVI to VGA
adapter a quick user guide some useless
disc there's your lar coft game as well
as your driver update guide all right so
go ahead and put this back in and then
put this back in and let's have a look at the product itself here oh no no more
accessories so dual Molex two single six pin PCIe connectors two of them and
finally the card
itself comes in an anti-static
bag twin frozer 2 cooler hasn't changed
much you know what give me two seconds I'm going to grab a 560
TI yeah I forgot my 560 uh twin frozer 2
560 TI twin frozer 2 I got to be careful with that from now on my 560 TI twin
frozer 2 is part of the prize system I'm giving away so it's upstairs I'm not
going to go get it but this is a GTX 460 Hawk and it uses the same PCB as the 560
TI twin frozer 2 so you can see that it also uses the same PCB you can see the
hawk is actually covered up right here as the GTX 560 twin frozer 2 so there's
no real changes in terms of the physical layout of this board but I'm going to
walk you through it anyway we've got a couple of 92 mm low profile fans so this
allows MSI to maintain a two slot profile while putting in a dual fan
custom cooled cooler solution all right we've
got two super pipes so here's your two regular heat pipes in the middle of the
GPU and the two super pipes are going out further away from the GPU because
they do need to carry heat a little bit more efficiently because they are going
over a greater distance you've got your standard PCIe 16x interface down
here as well as what the heck is this this looks like uh it's got a couple of
purposes okay so oh that's something new all right so you can see on the GTX 460
here there's uh nothing here and on the GTX 560 twin frozer too
there is a heat sink here so that would be for the uh the voltage Regulators so
I guess MSI has just uh beefed up the design a little bit here and it looks
like it's also going to provide some additional yeah here if you look at it from this side you can see it actually
wraps around the end of the PCB and it that should provide some stiffness to
the card as well and that won't be the only thing that provides stiffness to
the card so you can see up here they're using their uh PCB stiffener actually
they have a name for this that I've just
forgotten and it looks like they haven't included it on the on the box either
which makes my life more difficult but um basically what it is is it's a piece
of metal that allows the card to be more rigid overall so you can't you can't
really Flex the PCB you know what why don't we compare it against the 460 so
here you can see how much Flex there is in it right okay so let's compare that
to the 460 I'll hold that the same way and I'm just going to pinch it the same
way so you can see how that PCB can Flex quite a bit more now especially if
you're moving your system around or shipping it remember it's only secured
by the PCIe slot and by the two screws up here so if the card is not very stiff
over here there can be a lot of a lot of movement which can cause it to I mean
I've even heard of cards in shipping mind you uh before they used spring
mounted screws on the backs of video cards this is why everyone started doing
it where the coolers actually coming off from vibration and from movement it can
also cause undue strain uh on the PCIe
slot and on the screws if you don't have that stiffening piece there so that's uh
that's one thing that they have added to this card versus the 460 we've got dual
six pin PCIe connectors on the back of the card so it should have support for
almost any power supply any modern power supply should be able to run this card
just fine here's your four pin pwm fan
control uh at the top of the board you do find your SLI Bridge connector so
there is just one which means two-way SLI not three-way SLI the back of the
card looks pretty much like we've come to expect from anything using this
particular PCB you guys are welcome to uh look for the if you want but I
suspect you will not find any differences between the appearance of
the 460 Hawk and the GTX twin frozer 2
560 GTX twin frozer 2 these these names are getting very confusing I have to
confess all right on the back of the card you find dual DVI if I can ever get
this connector plug cover thing off as well as mini HDMI so that's why you have
that adapter now about the twin frozer 2 cooler you can see here there are some
vent holes so you're going to have a little bit of heat being expelled outside of the cas but most of it is
going to be expelled inside the case so there's always compromises to be made
and the compromise MSI has made is they have opted for lower overall G GPU
temperatures which should result in better overclocking at the by
sacrificing the overall case temperatures a little bit so you want to
make sure you got a decently ventilated case with good cooling fans and you
shouldn't run into any problems thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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