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oh I got it okay today we're going to be doing a length comparison between the

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GTX 570 and the GTX 580 so I have two

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MSI cards here and I'm going to show you how they compare in terms of length well

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audience first of all why don't we have a look at the allnew GTX 570 and we will

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discover that it is 10 and5 in long and

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then we will look at the GTX 580 to discover that it is 10 and 1/2 in long

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so this reveals something very interesting about the GTX 570 and that

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is that it actually uses exactly the same cooler almost I I I noticed one

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small difference between the coolers check this out guys okay so this is the

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570 see how the aluminum fin comes up a little bit closer to the vent compared

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to the GTX 580 I don't even know if you guys can see that here I'll give you

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sort of a better perspective on it can you can you tell in the camera okay it's

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hard to tell in the camera but they do both use a vapor chamber cooler however

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it looks like the positioning of the fins or maybe the number of fins is

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slightly different so there there's a

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bit of intrigue for you all right other than that we have a two six pin versus a

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six pin and an 8 Pin PCIe power connector and then you're going to find

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more differences on the back because even though they use here look at it

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this way even though they use the same PCB there's actually fewer things

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soldered to the GTX 5 70 PCB so you can

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see where the RAM chips are installed there's all kinds of little components

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soldered onto the back of the RAM chip so the GTX 570 which is here has that

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but not here so there's actually blank spots where they could have potentially

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installed more RAM chips used a higher bin GPU one that has more active

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functional units and that would be a 580 pretty much as long as they put an 8 Pin

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power connector on it so they're very very similar cards basic basically

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you've just got lower memory bandwidth on the 570 less overall memory and then

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you've got a slightly cut down or lower Bend GPU and if you're not sure what I

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mean by Bend or binning you should check out the NC Tech tips episode where we

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explained the process of binning and how that works in the electronics Industry