today I have an unboxing for you guys this is part of evga's DS series of
cards that is not to say that it is like the Nintendo DS in that it's neat but
underpowered that is to say that it is I
actually don't know what it stands for but all their DS cards have this really
cool uh heat sink design so maybe it has something to do with that I don't know
dual slot mind you all the heat sinks are dual slot these days pretty much uh
dual dual fan would be DF maybe someone
can post uh in the comments under this video what exactly the DS thing in the
name stands for so this is basically a GTX 560 TI with an aftermarket cooler
made by EVGA who is proud to Proclaim
themselves to be number one seller of us
of NVIDIA based products in the US the number one in reliability and service
the number one in performance and the number one folding at home team although
I don't think I should talk too much about the folding at home team because NC has its own folding at home team
which is pretty good as well so they've got 24/7 support as well as evga's
coveted warranty service all right key
features include direct X11 we've come to expect that at this point all the
usual NVIDIA stuff including two-way SLI
Cuda uh physx 3D Vision as well as 3D
Vision surround if you grab two of them and run them in SLI mode you can use
evga's utilities including precision as well as their OC Scanner and let's flip
it around this is a super clocked card which means it's not um the highest
priced highest performing it's not the second highest pric second highest
performing but it's the Step Up from the
stock clock cards that are also available so we've got one of those EVGA
uh skull dude posters which I often have a really hard time getting unfolded for
some reason let's see if this one's any easier hey there we go all right so I'm
just going to step back show you guys that so something about EVGA gaming
there you go uvj gaming and then a skull
dude okay so let's go ahead and put that
away for now uh if I can figure out how to do
it usually the putting away part is even
harder there we are and without ruining it excellent
okay next we have a graphics card user guide uh at this point you should
probably pretty much know how to use a graphics card you plug it into the slot
you install the drivers but not off the disc off the manufacturer website as
well as a quick start guide in case you want to get started quickly rather than
slowly highly recommended that getting started quickly rather than slowly
because then your new hardware is in your system and ready to go more quick
all right we have um don't touch your card for 2 minutes after it's been on we
have a mini HDMI to HDMI cable this is a
great inclusion because it allows you to not have to deal with any clearance
issues with those adapters if you have a DVI cable plugged into the next slot
over we have dual Molex to single six
pin PCIe adapter as well as another one
and finally a DVI to VGA adapter
finally we have the card itself coming
out of the wrapper this is an unwrapping video today not an unboxing I mean we
unboxed it too but we're also going to unwrapper it it's unboxing and
unwrapping video there it is if that's not a slick looking card I don't know
what it is I think my white balance is a little bit off cuz looking at the LCD in
my camera this uh Green Stripe looks pretty yellow but in real life it's
actually ah there we go if I sh there that's about what it looks like so it's
an NVIDIA Green Stripe that looks very sharp it's a nice little Accent on an
otherwise almost completely Black Card
okay we got white DVI ports too but I guess we'll we'll let it slide in a
couple stickers all right so let's start with uh let's start with the top today
so we've got EVGA GTX 560 TI the text is
in the correct orientation such that when you actually install it in your
case you will actually be able to read it on the top we also find a single SLI
connector so that means two-way SLI but not three-way or four-way SLI remember
those modes are not supported by the GTX
560ti GPU next on the back we have not a
whole lot to speak of although maybe what I'll do is I'll
find out for you guys whether this is a reference PCB or whether this is a
custom PCB why don't we go find another 560
TI H there's a HW
is that a 560 TI yes it is okay so I'm in the Tech's
room trying to find out if this is a reference card or a non-reference card
so far it looks like a reference card all right let's compare the PCB
layouts here guys that's looking pretty
darn reference to me at this point now remember too just because a manufacturer
is using a reference design
PCB that does not necessarily mean that
they are using all reference components on it so they could be using higher
quality capacitors or chokes or whatever the case may be uh EVGA is renowned for
their quality so who knows what's actually on here but it does use a
reference PCB next we have an open slot at the back so some air flow is going to
be kicked out into your case by the DS cooler here we've also got two PCI six
pin PCIe six pin power
connectors although it's not a particularly power hungry card at the
bottom we have a PCI Express 16x
connector and we see a couple of big old
fat heat pipes so there there are two heat pipes um no three three heat pipes
yes there you can see the third one in there now right so you got three heat
pipes covering the GPU which you can also see right down there see the GPU
itself and so those are going to be spreading the heat out to the aluminum
fins which you can see all under the Dual 80 mm F here
and that is what will do the cooling for
your system you can also see that the vrms are going to get direct air flow
from this fan right here so you don't have to worry about those overheating at
all as well that's one of the things that is superior about a downdraft uh
cooler design now one of the disadvantages is that although we do on
the back have an open PCI slot for exhaust most of the air is not going to
come out of that slot most of it is going to be exhausted here here here
not it here well yeah some here um and then some of it will go out the back but
you want to make sure you have decent Cooling in your case before you install
a card that does not uh exhaust everything externally on the back dual
DVI mini HDMI and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking
out my unboxing of the GeForce GTX 560
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