so today we'll be unboxing the EVGA GTX 580 DS now that is not to say dual
screen because all GTX 580s support two
monitors that is their custom version
which includes a dual fan cooler that looks pretty sweet it's actually very
similar to the dual fan cooler that is on the GTX 46 T win or twin uh that dual
460 card so this is a super clocked card which is good super super clocked is
better and for the win is best for the win is usually quite expensive so a
super clocked or super super clocked card often presents a very good value
actually you know what I'm going to go ahead and uh here stay there yeah thank
you crazy Russian is helping me today he doesn't have quite the uh camera
expertise that the cameraman does so I have to I have to help him you know
position himself correctly okay let's see what else they have to say for
themselves about this particular product so EVGA
warranty for more terms of this so this is an AR product which means it
qualifies for lifetime warranty if you registered on the EVGA website EVGA
Precision is obviously compatible with this card that's an overclocking utility
they also have an OC Scanner utility that you can use with this card uh what
else do we have and EVGA 24/7 tech support so whether it's night or day you
can call up EVGA at any time time and get help with your card and let's see
what else they have to say for themselves on the side of the Box they are another number one seller of NVIDIA
based products in the US number one in reliability and service of graphics
cards Asterix something something something okay number one performance
leader in 3D Mark 11 Aster something something something and folding at home
team number one folding at home team in the world something something something
asteris Aster asteris so they are qualifying their statements you will or
rather they are backing up their statements you can give them that that
is for sure all right so the the first thing we find in the box is a pretty win
poster that has a big old skull guy on
it there we are oh hold
on if I can actually get the poster to
come on unfold there we are so we have a skull guy
here okay the next thing we find inside
is a graphics card user guide which will show you how to plug the power into your
graphics card how to plug in your graphics card all that good stuff a
quick start guide similar all right GTX
580 so shows you how to plug in the 8 Pin and six pin power connector it also
tells you please allow your graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2 minutes
after turning off your PC before touching it powered by EVGA sticker EVGA
disc which you shouldn't use you should download all the latest uh tools and
utilities off the EVGA website and the latest drivers off the NVIDIA website
next we have a mini HDMI to HDMI C C
this is better than an adapter because it means that the HDMI like if you have
an adapter it means that the HDMI cable can get in the way of the next over DVI
slot so this is a very nice addition we
also have a DVI to VGA adapter please
please don't use that get a better Monitor and two or rather one dual Molex
to six pin PCIe and one dual six pin
PCIe to 8 Pin
PCIe finally the card itself so let's
flip that over and make ourselves a little
uh spot to put it caution only open at a static free
workstation all right so there is the
GTX 580 DS so it has dual 80 mm fans and
I can't tell if these are pwm controlled fans although I would assume that they
are yes they are pwm controlled fans they have a huge gap in the Shroud you
can see that there's almost no restriction to the airflow that is
available to these fans so you don't have to worry about even if you install
a card in the next over slot you can see that the uh curvature of the cover makes
sure that even if something is right up against it you're going to have a lot of
room for those fans to draw an air that's a very smart design choice that
EVGA has made the top of the card looks really slick and it looks like this
actually lights up would be my guess uh
let me just see if I can see any power going to it anywhere okay I can't so
that's still a guess yes I can there there's power so that lights up Blue by
the look of things which is going to look just sweet in your case like that
all right it's got your standard six pin and 8pin PCIe connectors up here in the
top as well as support for up to four-way SLI with dual s connectors at
the top of the card moving around to the back of the card you see absolutely
nothing interesting on the bottom of the card you see exhaust vents so what that
means is that this is not an external exhaust card it's going to kick a little
bit of heat out the back of the card you can see there's a nice open back plate
there but most of the heat is going to be on the inside so what that means is
that well suck it up princess make sure
you have a case that has decent cooling on the inside um because if you have a
really stuffy case it's not going to kick all the heat out what they're doing
is they're compromising the overall internal case temperatures and they're
counting on anyone who buys a GTX 580 to have a good gaming case with decent fans
and they are sa in order to get better performance on cooling the GPU itself
which will give you better overclocking and a more stable longer lasting card
okay so the top as well actually has those vents I didn't really mention that
before uh the design of the cooler is very interesting so it has five heat
pipes you can actually see the heat pipes down here so those heat pipes
actually run across the GPU core so the GPU core is right here all right so they
run across the GPU core carrying heat out to a separate heat sink that blows
air directly down onto the pwm which doesn't have dedicated heat sinks on it
although it is hold on is connected or isn't connected I
can't quite tell and I can't get uh I can't get in there to see hold on give
me a sec so it looks like it's making contact with this part of the heat sink
but really this the the biggest use of this is to cool the pwm uh all any other
components over here as well as driving heat away from the GPU with those heat
pipes so that's awesome on the back we find the usual dual DVI and One Mini
HDMI that we find on all GTX 580s and as usual this is a PCIe 2.0 16x card so
well PCI 2.1 or something like that I think but that doesn't really make much
difference one way or the other so one thing I want to do really quickly is I want to find out if this is a custom PCB
and it would appear that it is not it looks like a standard PCB so what EVGA
has customized about this card is they have customized the cooler so they're
giving you their DS sweet looking cooler
looks great actually all right they are
customizing the clock speed so they have turned the clock speeds up a little bit
versus a standard card and they are obviously providing their service and
their warranty which you don't get if you don't buy an eeve G card here's
something funny though look at this there's a few more components right here
versus some missing ones here
interesting sometimes you see slight changes um over the life cycle of a
product this is actually a very old GTX um 580 the one right here this is a
launch 580 from EVGA so this is how the product has evolved since it originally
was released so thank you for checking
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