so today I'm going to be having a look at a very unique product from EVGA this
is the EVGA GTX 275 Co-op but stay tuned there's more
physics okay so normally EVGA uses their Co-op branding to mean that there are
two gpus but unlike the last time with
the GTX 295 Co-op they are not the same
GPU this card besides including Batman
Arkham Asylum which is a very cool value ad because it's a pretty sweet game game
that I really enjoyed it has two completely different gpus on it it has
one GTX 275 okay and then it has one GTS
250 for physics so I'm not sure if you
can read that right there so it has a dedicated GTS 260 for physics support
that means the card in total has 1280
Megs of RAM on it which is a very strange amount but that's the 896
for the um for the GTX 275 and then the
rest of it is actually dedicated to the GTS 250 so let's see what we have inside
here in terms of accessories and whatnot so I'm just going to aim the camera down
kind of like so so you can sort of see what's going on here okay first thing
we've got is a oh wow I'm not going to show you guys that is a graphics card
installation guide so that should be a guide on how to install your graphics
card it explains PCI Express versus AGP
how to install your driver d
okay thank you oh oh actually no I saw something in there that was relevant
where is it ah right nope no not
relevant never mind okay then we have the quick start guide for the GeForce
GTX 275 Co-op physics I'm guessing they
are going to explain to you insert the
graphics card in a PCI if you're only installing one
GeForce no no there's not really a whole lot going on there either okay next is
the driver installation CD don't use that throw it away download the latest
off NVIDIA.com okay this is the Batman
Arkham Asylum coupon code do not try and read the code I covered it up this time
that's right someone got my code for uh Everquest 2 off one of my other
unboxings the killer Zeno Pro but not this time okay so in terms of
accessories in here we got their little spiff pass through cable ground and
spiff those are the two connectors that are on it you can't really read that
that's okay then we have a PCI Express
ah we have two PCI Express six pin to one PCI Express 8 Pin
adapter then we have a two MOX to one
PCI Express six pin adapter we've got a
DVI to VGA adapter we have a sticker to
uh case adapter a sticker okay then we
have a DVI to HDMI adapter that pretty
much does it in terms of accessories then we have a cool little EVGA cutout
thing it's like the shape of a card I really like this I don't know why and
then we have the card itself this is a big card actually I was not really
expecting this and I can't explain why because I should have expected it
because this card has two gpus on it so
it's not exactly Ro rocket science that it would be a little bit on the big side
okay so wow that is a heck of a fan so
why don't we start with the wow where do
you start on a card like this okay why don't we start on the front that is The
Joker okay and that is a padded wall
that the Joker presumably resides inside this is about an 80 mil looking fan that
has a very aggressive shape to the blades here so you can see that it's
designed for static pressure they're really going to work hard to push air
through those fins inside there I'm not really sure if you're going to be able to see that but H that's okay yeah there
you go you can kind of see through the fins there and then there is also a fin
structure on the other side for the other V GPU which you are not going to
be able to see through for sure because it lines up with these slots and it's just one more obstruction okay so up at
the top we have two SLI connectors so that means you can run it with another
275 in SLI and then use your dedicated GTS 250 for physics presumably if
someone corrects me then I will be wrong and they will be right okay up at the
top it's got our little branding sticker here with your GTX 275 Coop physics you
got one8 pin and one six pin power connector so that is more than a normal
275 would have on the back you can
clearly see where the two gpus are located there is one right oh where are
they it looks like there's one right here and one right here and this one has
a heat pipe coming off of it so I'm going to guess that's the 275 and this
one I'm kind of guessing there's one based on all the traces that are there
and based on the fact that I can kind of see it here would be the 250 this is
presumably covering some memory for the 250 but I'm I'm again totally guessing
here let's have a look at the back where we have two DV
uh connectors and then we have a slot for the uh case air to be exhausted out
once it's cooled off the GPU at the back this is a standard PCI Express 16x slot
so you don't need any kind of special SLI motherboard or any kind of special
features in your computer other than a PCI Express 16x slot in order to support
this card at the back here you can see more cooling fins oh that would have
been a way better way to show you that so you can see right through the card there and that is where the cooling air
from this GPU is going to go now I'm going to assume there's some kind of
heat pipe it's really hard to sort of see anything on this card because it shrouded so well but I think that pretty
much concludes it the main point is that Batman Arkham Asylum the game that comes
with it takes advantage of physics really well I've actually got a couple
GTX 260s in my own PC and using the
physics versus not using physics made a huge difference to my game performance
thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the GTX 275 Co-op
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