this is the GeForce GTX 580 Matrix
Platinum Republic of Gamers graphics card it comes in a huge box and it is a
very special video card so it uses the GTX 580 GPU it has 1.5 gigs of memory it
is clocked pretty high and stuff it's got a memory interface it's got maximum
digital resolution of 2560 x600 okay it has display ported out
which is kind of cool and a minimum of 700 wat system power supply is
recommended for the use of this card and
you will see why once I get it opened up
because it's all big and impressive and consumes lots of power but it consumes
lots of power because it's powerful so it is designed for overclocking
enthusiasts following the success of the extreme tweet tweaker features a Seuss
has created the new tweit to give users flexible overclocking control even when
running Benchmark program so yes you can adjust the frequency of this card with
onboard buttons pretty crazy am I right
real time Hardware loading monitoring with the LEDs over here so blue is light
loading green is safe mode pink is heavy loading blue is medium loading and red
is Extreme loading so that actually doesn't seem to be here maybe that's
somewhere else I guess we'll we'll check that out we'll check that out okay GPU
tweak is their utility for overclocking it uses direct cu2 technology for the
cooler and it has 19 phase super 19
phases okay it has 19 phase super alloy
power for the pwm on this card let's go
ahead and get it opened up wow we've actually got an accessory box as well as
a box for the card itself so because this is a GTX 580 card what that means
is we do have support for all of NVIDIA's Technologies including 3D
Vision 3D Vision surround if you run an SLI we do obviously have support for SLI
up to three-way or even four-way if you have a motherboard that supports it
you've got support for Cuda fizx all of that good stuff this is a great sticker
check out this sticker it's all shiny and red and black looks outstanding GTX
580 driver and manual get rid of it download the latest off the NVIDIA
website you can just download a regular GTX 580 driver there's no need for
special driver here's a quick setup guide we've also got a couple of dual
six pin to 8 Pin PCI power adapters and
we've got an SL Bridge included hey that's thoughtful okay it's a longer s
Bridge uh we've got a DVI to VGA adapter
although honestly guys if you're using a VGA monitor with a graphics card of this
caliber then I would recommend a monitor
upgrade instead of buying a graphics card of this caliber oh man this thing's
redonkulous look at this oh so that's where your realtime loading indicator is
O that's that's a cool feature so it actually glows a different color
depending on how much load the graphics card is under very cool uh yeah sure
let's start with the power connector so we have dual 8 Pin
PCIe power connectors that are required to power this board we've also got a
full cover back plate on the back of the board actually here yeah check that out
that looks really sharp so you can see that it's um actually I can't tell if
it's making contact with anything over there looks like it's not okay so this
is mostly for looks in all likelihood but it's got ventilation holes here and
it looks really sharp so this text is going to be right side up when it is
installed in your case so you'll be able to read Aus Matrix GTX 580 just
fine okay here we've got our two SLI
connectors so that means that we do have support for multi-way SLI configurations
not just two graphics cards this is a standard PCI E2 16x interface so this is
not an SLI on a card it doesn't require any kind of special connector the only
thing you really have to worry about is the power so like I said two eight pins
all right on the back oh this is interesting it's got a safe mode button
I guess that's for safe mode okay we have DisplayPort HDMI and dual DVI
outputs that are covered by little blue covers by default and they're capable of
VGA as well everything is very helpfully labeled not only on the card itself but
also on the plastic piece here I don't know if you can read that but it says
DVI okay and it's going to be hard for
us to take a good look at the custom PCB that went into this but um why don't we
look at the custom cooler first so we have dual 90 mm pwm fans here so these
are full thickness fans these are not your slim fans that you typically see on
these dual card uh or dual dual fan
coolers so they're going to have some real static pressure behind them those
are big fat heat pipes in there too I want you to kind of try and see down
there can you see the uh the heat pipes yeah there we go so those are really fat
heat pipes let me see how many are going to each side of the cooler so it looks
like we've got a total of one
2 3 4 five yeah it looks like correct me
if I'm wrong here guys but it looks like we got five heat pipes uh two of which
are going to this side yeah you can see the heat pipes running through here one
wait are there ones going out the other side no yeah okay yeah you can see the termination so there's two coming out
here remember this side also has direct heat transfer as well cuz the GPU itself
is right down there okay and then this one has three heat pipes going through
it so that's carrying heat away from the GPU and then out to this side where it
will be taken away by this fan now this fan also blows down directly onto this
heat sink that is going to be cooling the pwm it looks like the RAM chips do
not have heat sinks on them but they are going to be actively cooled by this fan
which can actually be better for RAM chips in some scenarios now this is a
fully custom PCB as I mentioned before so let's start showing you some of those
features obviously this B pwm heat sink
is covering up B pwm which is completely
custom for this card you don't have to worry about it blowing up pretty much no
matter how much voltage or How much cooling and then how Much More Voltage
you throw at it so hopefully you can see down there reasonably well okay next we
have these buttons here so you can turn your fan to 100% with the push of a
button that's kind of a cool feature because if you're like okay I'm gonna
you know benchmark boom just turn your fan on all the way then you don't have to worry about it ramping up hotter and
then catching itself to bring itself back down so you can keep it as cool as
possible you can turn the speeds up and down you've got uh this little indicator
set of LEDs here and then finally you've
got ha voltage checkpoints so for GPU M
PLL 3vt 3 3v3 12vt and ground you have
all of those on there so let's see how these fans are hooked up I okay so this
must be to do with this and then it looks like the fans are hooked up
through this custom connector right here
yeah that would be my that would be my guess so thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the GTX 580 Matrix don't
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computer videos and oh yeah last thing this is a triple slot card so if you are
going to try to run two of these in SLI make sure you have a card that has very
very wide spacing for the PCIe 16x slots
although really one of these cards should be providing most of the power
you would need for a lot of the games out there these days oh look at this
I've never seen anything this crazy before okay they've actually got labeled
solder points for you to do volt mod on
this thing you got to be kidding me so you can disable the ocp that is the over
current protection uh I'm not sure what these
other markings being power pwm you can change the pwm frequency so you can put
a variable resistor on there and change that so no way you can't build that into
a video card that's crazy so this thing is designed from the ground up for
subzero that is amazing actually cool okay