so today we're going to be doing an unboxing this is the MSI
their take on the gtx 570 from NVIDIA so
the first thing you're going to notice about the front of their box is well i
don't know i don't know what the first thing you're going to notice is but the first thing i notice is this afterburner
logo attached to like a spaceship thing going on here so afterburners MSI's
overclocking and tweaking software that is awesome it's really good it's great
you can adjust voltages you can adjust clock speeds you can set different
overclocking profiles you can make it so that it sets everything up when you boot
into Windows it's really really good anyway other things
on the front of the box we have a three year warranty and emma in MSI in the usa
and canada and bear in mind that in canada so this is applicable to our
canadian viewers the warranty is actually covered within canada so you
don't have to ship to a us depot that's a pretty good advantage because you
don't have to pay shipping across the border deal with customs etc we have
full support for NVIDIA cuda sli phys x
as well as 3d vision including 3d vision surround although you will need two
cards to run 3d vision surround and the specs are
pretty much the same as any other gtx 570 in that you've got
1.28 megabytes of video card memory
we're actually using the same GPU core
as the gtx 580 but it is slightly cut down so we have fewer processing cores
and a lower memory bandwidth to go along with
the lower memory capacity so let's take the card out for a second and then we're
going to have a look at what MSI's included in terms of accessories because
that's sort of part of their package as an NVIDIA add-in board partner as well
so the first thing we have is a quick user guide next we have a driver disk throw it away
download the latest from NVIDIA's website we have a mini dvi or rather
mini dvi mini HDMI to HDMI adapter
we have a dvi to vga adapter although please do yourself a favor and get a dvi
monitor if you're running a video card of this caliber next we have two molex
to PCIe six pin adapters just in case
you do not have an up-to-date power supply with PCIe connectors in which
case please get a new power supply and next we have a little guide on how to
use their live update feature all right let's get down to the graphics card
itself at the time of recording this video MSI's gtx 570 also comes with one
additional free game that the other gtx 570s do not so it comes with with all
the usual stuff and then it comes with a copy of metro 2033 it's not included in
the box but you get a coupon if you buy it from ncix that that includes a
download steam version of metro 2033 so
that's a pretty cool game directx 11 to run on your brand new directx 11 video
card so here at the back you can see there's not a whole lot to speak of here
at the top of the card you will find an MSI logo you will also find a GeForce
logo as well as two PCIe six pin power
connectors so that is two six pin rather than a six pin and an eight pin like on
the gtx 580. here at the top of the card
covered by MSI's little trademark
blue cover things are two sli connectors so
that means we have full support for two-way sli as well as three-way sli
using a three-way sli bridge and a compatible motherboard all right here we
have a pci express 16x interface
down here at the bottom moving on to the back we have what i
would now consider to be standard for an
NVIDIA 500 series card we have two dvi
ports one mini HDMI port so remember
that you can only use two of these at a time that means you can either use both
dvi's you can use a dvi and HDMI and then a dvi and HDMI you can't use all
three at the same time to get NVIDIA surround that is 3d vision surround or
just regular surround gaming going on you actually have to have two cards
running in sli mode and then you hook up
two monitors to one card and one monitor to the second card and given how much
horsepower is required for 3-monitor gaming i don't really feel that's an
unfair requirement on NVIDIA's part especially because you don't have to
have a displayport monitor you can run three
HDMI or dvi monitors okay here at the
back of the card there's not really a whole lot and i think that pretty much
covers everything there is to say about the MSI gtx 570 so i know i haven't had
a performance review up yet but i will have my usual slew of video content
around the gtx 570 coming for you guys shortly