this is truly a magnificent box this is
the box for the EVGA classified special
edition gForce GTX
590 and I know I already unboxed a 590
but I had I saw this box in the back and
actually actually it didn't come in this one just keep the camera pointed that way I'll bring it over I'll bring it
over I saw it in the warehouse and it was literally in this
box and I was like oh is that a is that
a m carton of video cards maybe there's
like four inside and the warehouse guy is like no that's one video card I was
like are you sure and he's like yeah and I'm like okay cuz I didn't believe him
so I opened it and sure enough it was one video card so let's unveil it
here so the first thing we find inside is an EVGA t-shirt made by Hanes so it's
not even like your cheap t-shirt that's a t egas haes t-shirt let's go ahead and
open that up there oh nice heavy cotton on that too and what's the size the size
is XL well that figures it's a little big on me but uh you know I guess they
figure your typical GTX 590 Gamers probably an XL ooh this is nice that's a
really nice mouse pad actually look at that limited edition it's a it's a hard
gaming surface got a little bit of flex to it got a nice rubber back so it's not
going to slip anywhere that's very nice actually nice touch next we
have one of those EVGA gaming posters
with the skull on
it okay and we got some more foam here oh
just foam look at that see just foam okay and we'll take out another piece of
foam pretty nice piece of foam for what it's worth nice uh you know gray foam oh
oh there's two cards oh no there's not two cards oh okay I guess you can buy a
kit with two cards well this is just the one card kit so we get a nice piece of
foam as well as a card okay so let's look at the accessories first we have
two six pins and one eight pin or rather two six pins to one eight
pin we've got two of those so if you have an SLI ready power supply that's
older and only has four six pin power uh six pin PCIe connectors and you will
still be able to connect the classified to eight pins we've got a mini display
port to fullsize DisplayPort
adapter we have a DVI to VGA uh to HDMI
adapter as well as a DVI to VGA adapter
and for crying out loud please don't use VGA on this on this uh card okay
attention please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2 minutes after
operation okay before removing it from your system and here we have it this is
the GTX 590 classified limited
edition graphics card you know what this
is actually a little bit different from the reference one I'll have to you know
what let me go get my reference card I'll be back in a minute and I'll show you guys so two things okay first of all
evga's back plate is clearly going to do a better job of cooling the memory than
the stock two-piece back plate because it is a single piece and so it just
plain has more surface area there's no rocket science to it here okay second of
all EVGA seems to be one of the only graphics card companies that has figured
out which way people install graphics cards in their computers so they install
them like this which means that all of this text is now right side up for you
to read when it's installed in your system very nice very nice touch EVGA so
let's go ahead and turn it over and compare the other side to our reference
card which I think is going to be quite
similar yeah okay so now it looks pretty much the same so now I'm going to take
my reference card away and we are going to focus on the evj classified
so this is a 3 gig graphics card it
features two GF 110 cores so that is two
full-fledged gpus that are the same as the one that is used in the NVIDIA GTX
580 okay now they are running on an
internal SLI configuration which means
that that you don't get quite the full performance of two of those chips but
you do get the excellent SLI scaling in many titles as well as support for all
of NVIDIA's key Technologies such as Cuda physx uh obviously SLI because it's
internal but also quad SLI you can actually run two of these bad boys in
the same system for even more graphics performance 3D Vision as well as 3D
Vision surround so uh let's let's go on
a quick tour of the card so here is our SLI finger up here at the top here is
some more text that is right side up when the card is actually installed in
your system here is that little lit GeForce
logo so that actually lights up with LEDs and it is functional if there's any
kind of problem with your card like if you don't have the right power
connectors uh connected then it'll actually flash so you can you can tell
that there's some kind of a problem instead of uh I remember the first time I fired up a GTX uh or rather an 8800
GTX uh it squealed at me like a pig and
I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on but it turned out one of my PCIe adapters wasn't plugged in right
and that was the issue so there's our 80 mm fan cooling the unisync that you can
clearly see down there and then inside the card you can see there's uh one
Vapor chamber and two I don't know if
you can see that one two Vapor Chambers with fins okay here on the bottom you
see our standard PCIe 16x interface here
at the back of the card you can see some ventilation so that's uh going to be
kicking air out towards the front of your C and then here on the front of the card
you see some more ventilation as well as one of the coolest features about this
card so the two GTX 580 well remember
they're not equivalent because it's the same GPU has all the same functional
units but it's clocked a little bit lower in order to get the power under
control for a dual GPU card but it has two gpus on it which means you can
actually drive four displays off of the single card you can run three displays
on DVI for NVIDIA 3D Vision surround off
of a single card Isn't that
cool I think that's pretty much it so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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