today's unboxing is an exciting one this is the MSI n560 GTX TI twin frozer 2 and
as you may or may have not have figured out by now this is based on the GeForce
GTX 560 TI GPU from NVIDIA this is a 1
gig graphics card and it is a very special one because at the time of
filming this video anyway it looks like the best price to Performance I mean
really high performance gaming graphics card on the market now now NVIDIA has
actually even brought out the ti designation we haven't seen that for a
very long time when we saw it on one of nidia's bestselling GeForce series ever
the GeForce uh 4,000 TI Series so the
4200 TI was the big one back in the day and that was wow direct X8 so we're up
to directx11 with this GPU we also have support for all of NVIDIA's Technologies
so let's have a look at them they're all listed up here we've got G Force Cuda
NVIDIA SLI this supports two-way SLI fizx by NVIDIA as well as NVIDIA 3D
Vision now there's a couple other things on here as well MSI afterburner is uh
has a little badge on the box it's a great little overclocking utility works
on not only MSI cards but other ones too as well as it being ready for 3D Mark 11
I guess that's one way of saying that it is direct X11 ready 3D Mark 11 is also
included with this card for with a value of 20 bucks so that's kind of cool it
has a three-year warranty in the US Canada and Mexico and let's see what
else they have to say for them oh right yeah this is a twin frozer 2 card so
what that means is that we have MSI's
famous twin frozer 2 cooler on this
instead of the stock cooler so I'll show you guys a little comparison against the
stock cooler in a bit so they're saying up to 20° cooler it also features
military Class 2 so you've got all of MSI's military class there we go it's
finally focused technology included on this board it is a custom PCB board okay
and it is an overclocked card so we've got voltage
adjustment and let's see what else MSI has to say for themselves so here
they're giving us some more details about their military class concept which
I think is just great because I found that on Military class cards I've
actually noticed less less squealing because of the higher quality components
that are being used and what MSI also has to say for themselves is that it's
more efficient delivers more current and is going to last longer here's a another
little plug for MSI afterburner which is my personal favorite and here's some
media comments about the twin frozer 2 ah here's some more information about
twin frozer 2 as well as a sneak peek of the card which you can't really see
because of the anti-static bag but direct contact design with the heat
pipes dual pwm fans okay nickel plated
copper base dual super pipes I'll show you the super pipes so there's actually
four total heat pipes and then two super pipes high density heat sink and here's
a little thermal comparison against the reference cooler although I don't I know
how relevant that is because I think this box has probably been reused from
the 460 twin frozer so um either way
suffice to say the twin frozer 2 is usually a much better performer than the
stock cooler on pretty much anything all right direct x 11 support okay most of
this we've covered already uh or we will cover once we get it opened up minimum
system requirements okay PCIe 16x yep two six pin PCIe power connectors and a
minimum 500 wat or greater power supply those are probably the most important
bits this is a 1 gig card so it has
1,24 Megs of video memory and let's
finally yes finally 3 minutes and 40
seconds in get the box opened up all right so first thing as usual for me is
accessories so Ms siiz boxes I'm used to them now down in the bottom is where we
find all the accessories so here is our quick users
guide here is a driver disc don't use this download the latest version ha
download the latest version uh we have a
DVI to VGA adapter in case you're still using a VGA Monitor and then we also
have a mini HDMI see if we can get it to focus to
regular HDMI out adapter here's 3D Mark
11 and just for one lucky viewer I am
going to give away my copy of 3D Mark 11
so I'm going to scratch this off and whoever gets this first you are now the
proud owner of 3D Mark 11 Advanced
Edition oh hold on that's somewhat obscured there we go all right
congratulations okay next we have the 560 TI series something about their live
update so you can use that to update your drivers and whatnot and finally we
have a few more accessories and then we're going to have a look at the sexy
GTX 560 TI graphics card so two dual
Molex two PCI six pin power adapters
although as I so frequently say if you
don't have a proper power supply to run this card with a couple PCI E uh with a
couple PCI E6 pin Powers then you should
probably be looking at a power supply upgrade as well a balanced system is a
happy system all right let's get this
anti-static bag out of here and I have a
feeling at this time that this card is
going to look very similar to our old friend the GTX 460 Hawk because a little
bird told me that it might actually be using the same overall PCB layout so
first thing I'm going to do is compare it to the GTX 460 Hawk side by side or
rather top to bottom okay so you can see they are both using the same addition of
the twin frozer 2 heat sink so I'll show you the super pipes here on the bottom
of the 560 TI you see how two of them the ones that go out further away from
the GPU core which is in the middle are actually thicker than the others so
those are the super pipes the reason they're thicker they carry heat more
efficiently that way and they have further to go so that's why MSI made the
design decision to make those ones the outermost heat pipes okay so let's have
a look at the top of the card here you can see some memory chips down there you
can also see some other components you can see the uh the termination ends of
those heat pipes so there are the fat ones on the on the outside and the
skinny ones on the inside there all right you can see some MSI twin frozer 2
branding on the top of that heat sink let's flip it over and see what the back
has to say for itself so here I'm going to get this out of my way so that it's
not uh not here anymore all right let's take off these protective covers which
I've never quite understood I mean it comes pretty well packed I don't think
that uh you know these are really necessary but they're there one way or
the other so no sense complet about it
so here we will find our SLI Bridge as I
mentioned before this card supports only two-way SLI otherwise you'd need two
bridges for three-way and four-way SLI you've also got on the back of the card
uh the location of the GPU you can see where all of the memory is soldered on
you can see where all of the connectors are soldered on you can see that does
use a standard PCI Express 16x
2.0 data connection and then also on the
back you can see where the power connectors are soldered so let's move around to the back of the card and that
is where we will find two PCI six pin
power connectors as mentioned before now the wiring of the fans is a little bit
custom because there's one Mount here or rather one plug here and then it's going
to go out here where it splits into two
and then Powers each fan
individually let's have a look at the connectors we've got on the back here so
we've got our mini HDMI as well as dual DVI you can see the back plate actually
has some ventilation slots so you can see by the design of the cooler here so
this has a bit of a there's a bit of a shroud thing going on here so some of
the exhaust from this fan is going to go out the back of the card but most of it
is going to go through and then be exhausted out here and down on the
bottom and what that means is that if you are running a twin frozer 2 card you
will get better GPU temps guaranteed
versus a stock cooled card but you should make sure you have adequate case
air flow to move that heat out of your case because it's not going to be exhausting it externally so two more
things before we wrap up here I want us to do the quick PCB comparison against
the GTX 460 Hawk and see if I can notice
any differences so actually we here you guys
can always pause and help me uh well here's one here's one the 460 Hawk has
the GPU V switches on it okay where whereas the GPU V switches
are actually not present okay because remember this is
not a hawk Edition card even though it appears to be using a hawk PCB oh
there's also there's also another change here this little component is here but
it's not here now the GTX 560 GPU while
it is a different GPU than the one powering the GTX 460 it has more pipes
it is more optimized however it is pin compatible so that's why MSI was able to
release an aftermarket PCB 560 ti so
quickly because they were able to pretty much drop it onto the PCB looks like
they were able to make a couple minor changes see here's another one here
there's one component here when there is not one on the GTX 460 Hawk and uh
that's pretty much all the changes that really pop out to me right now oh yeah
no here's one so this is on the hawk and this is not
here interesting I'm no electrical engineer so I can't tell you what all of
that means but here I'm going to bring my 560 TI back I'm going to put my 460
Hawk away and then I'm going to bring up a regular reference NVIDIA GTX 560 so
how do these guys compare well you can see the reference one has a single 80 mm
fan whereas the hawk has dual 92 mm fans
the reference one does have an external exhaust design although oh no it's not
external exhaust so it's about half and half so it's probably going to be exhausting a little bit more than the
twin frozer 2 so you can see there's ventilation here but it's not going to
be oh it's not going to be exhausting nearly everything not even half and half
cuz you can see there's more ventilation holes here and more in the top so it's
going to be kicking most of the heat out into the case as well twin frozer 2 I
would definitely expect to perform better although I haven't had a chance to test it yet but I will you can see
that the reference cooler hold on sorry I'm moving it so that I can see better
the reference cooler looks too three copper heat pipes as well as a flower
heat snc design kind of like Intel's reference LGA
1155 heat sink okay the PCB layout is
probably going to be very very different yes it looks very very different already
maybe not that different pretty different though um versus the hawk PCB
that the GTX 560 Ti overclocked from MSI
has borrowed you can see that this PCB is actually slightly longer than the
hawk PCB that MSI is using and other
than that I guess that's all the physical comparisons that I wanted to
make they're both dual slot coolers of course very few performance single Slot
Cards these days thank you for checking out my unboxing of the GTX 560 TI 1 gig
overclocked card from MSI one thing I
also should mention before I wrap up here is that this card is overclocked to
580 MHz on the core that is
versus or rather 880 MHz on the core
versus 822 on the reference card as well
as 4.2 GHz on the RAM versus about 4 GHz
on the NVIDIA reference card