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now this is something I've been wanting to unbox for a little while this is the

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GTX 560 TI direct cu2 so basically this

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is an aftermarket cooled GTX 560 and

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once we open this up I'm actually going to find out if it is also a

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non-reference PCB GTX 560 so the only

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way to find that out is to open the box which I'm a big fan of doing so the dual

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fan design is evidently up to 20° cooler

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it uses direct GPU contact in order to ensure that it gets get well direct

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contact with the GPU for the heat pipes for better cooling performance it also

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has super alloy power which blends select elements under a Seuss exclusive

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formula resulting in a 15% performance increase 2.5 times longer product

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lifespan and 35° 35° cooler operation

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that's quite a bold claim voltage tweak technology allows you to boost the GPU

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voltages via ASUS smart doctor to achieve up to 50% faster clock speed

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over clocking capability may be varied by different cards and platforms extreme cooling is required to achieve 50%

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faster okay uh something about the card

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General Technologies yes this is a GeForce card so it does support Cuda SLI

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3D Vision it supports even 3D Vision

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surround when you are in SLI mode it is a 1 gig card so it has a standard

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configuration as far as memory is concerned and we're going to go ahead

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and get this opened up o nice box look at that matte black box with nice gold

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font on on it I like it I've come to

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appreciate fine boxes ooh it gets even nicer when we get

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inside look at that you know how expensive it is to have to make a box

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that's black on both sides you guys have no idea compared to just like a white

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box or just a plain cardboard box it's much more expensive so uh yeah ASUS

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really put everything into the packaging of this product just nice to see them

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care you know you can see the card self is well protected by nice closed cell

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foam here okay what do we got here we

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got uh video drivers okay gamer OSD smart doctor okay so some ASUS software

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download the latest from the ASUS website instead okay here we've also got

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a quick setup guide o look at that in color I'm

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impressed again very impressed color setup guide here we've got our

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accessories compartment So that's its own little box

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these guys are going after razor at this point well not quite Razer razer's

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pretty got pretty good packaging so here's kind of a neat thing this is a

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mini HDMI to HDMI adapter and you can see it's actually Twisted at a right

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angle so that plugging an HDMI cable in won't interfere with plugging something

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into the next over DVI port here we've

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got a DVI to VGA adapter and two dual

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dual MOX to single PCI E6 pin power

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adapters finally we have the card itself which does not come in an anti-static

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bag so I'm going to go ahead and assume that this is anti-static foam this is a

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very nice looking card I'll tell you guys that right off the bat here cuz it

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has my favorite thing in the world well not my favorite thing in the

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world but I really like it matte black PCB Bravo ASUS matte black PCB love it

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especially with some of the new motherboards out there on the p67

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platform featuring matte black pcbs this

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would go with with it just nicely you can also see they've got Tastefully

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accented colors to go with their matte black so there's a little bit of oh okay

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please don't do that cat's trying to steal the foam he loves foam he's such a

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brat no no there okay so they've got

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Tastefully accented colors to go along with the matte black so you can see the

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aluminum heat sink here that is part of the direct CU cooler right there you can

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see where the heat pipe goes and uh if I can get exactly the right angle here you

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might be able to see where the GPU is

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down there there that's the GPU that you can see through the crack there okay and

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then they've got a couple of Seuss logos which are also nice like silver one of

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them is a little bit a skew but we can fix that quite easily there we go we've

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got dual six pin PCIe power connectors required to run this board and we've

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also got a single SLI connector up here at the top of the PCB so what that means

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is that you have support for two-way SLI but not three-way and not four-way okay

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dual fans these both look like 80 mm fans and this is kind of a unique layout

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okay so you can see this is this is kind of neat it's like kind of a hybrid

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design so this is a heat sink okay this is a heat sink with a fan and then what

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ASUS has also done so that directly cools the GPU there's actually slots in

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the heat sink here here and here where it looks like I'm just going to look for

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them yeah it looks like that's to give direct ventilation here I'm going to try

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and get a little bit more light for you guys here to the memory chip see the

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memory chips in there so that gives you direct air flow over the memory chips

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instead of relying on heat sinks to cool them which can often just insulate them

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more than anything else see more memory chips here which are also have direct

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exposure to air flow very clever little

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design choice to make and then what you can see they've done is they've actually

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put those direct touch heat pipes down there right over the GPU and then made

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little fin Arrangement so this is It's a

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heat sink but it's also a heat pipe cooler so that means that both of these

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fans are able to be effective at cooling that GPU over there without isus

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actually having to use so many heat pipes to spread out the heat load

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because they're using a direct heat sink and a heat pipe cooler so that's pretty

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neat so this is the direct cu2 cooler we've got some little red accents to

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look quite nice we've got a PCI Express

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16x interface down here at the bottom with a standard lock so I did answer my

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own question when I saw that it was a matte black PCB because NVIDIA reference

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cards do not use a matte black PCB uh let's see what else we got here

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there's a little dedicated heat sink here you can see it right there for the

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mosfets that is for the voltage delivery so that's on that side and you can kind

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of see it from the top there as well it's that one right there and let's see

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what else we got this is a nice metal shroud too they're using a metal shroud

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for the cooler so what that means is that it's not cheap it's not plastic

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very very nice and uh what's this this

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seems to be just a plate for making the card more rigid which is smart so you

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can see that this plate is bolted into the PCB here and here and it's also

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bolted into the io Shield here so that's going to give your card instead of just

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being held in by the PCI Express lot and

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the two screws here it's going to give it a little bit more rigidity so it'll

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actually sit flat I've had many a card installed in my system that kind of

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looks like this when it's installed because of the weight of the

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cooler okay let's have a look at the back of the card you can see that the

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direct cu2 even though it has a slot here is not going to be doing hold on

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focus focus focus you stupid thing is not going to be doing a whole lot of

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exhaust out of this vent cuz the fan is actually like way over here and there's

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no direct airflow path from the fan to the vent so this is mostly going to

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exhaust the air inside your case so you do have to make a trade-off you got to

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decide what's more important to me do I want lower GPU temps overall so more

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overclocking on my GPU or do I want lower case temps now remember you can

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combat the internal exhaust just by having a well ventilated case versus

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having an external exhaust designed for your card like say for example the GTX

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580 reference card that's over there where it exhausts all of the air outside

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of the case and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about

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the GTX 560 direct cu too there's our

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DVI ports there's our mini HDMI port

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thank you for checking out my unboxing of this card and I will do a follow-up

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comparing it in terms of temperatures

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against the reference design GTX 560ti

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that I also have oh I didn't even mention yes this is a factory

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overclocked card so it comes clocked at 830 MHz on the core don't forget to

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