1 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:17,199 Welcome to a very exciting unboxing. This is the all-new GeForce GTX 660Ti. 2 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:21,680 And this particular one is actually pretty special. This is MSI's power 3 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:28,480 edition of the card, which features their triple overvoltage enhanced PWM 4 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:30,480 design, as well as their Twin Frozer 4 5 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:37,600 cooler, which is the, as you might be able to guess, fourth iteration of their 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,680 Twin Frozer cooler. Twin Frozer is a 7 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:45,120 funny thing because when I first heard of a Twin 8 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:48,760 Frozer cool cooler, I was like, "Oh, 9 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:52,719 they spelled it wrong." cuz it's F R O Z 10 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:54,719 R and then I was like like you know were 11 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:58,960 they paying like a consultancy firm like per character to come up with the name 12 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:03,039 for it or something and then you know I just I kind of got used to it and at 13 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:06,799 this point I just I don't care anymore because a twin frozer just basically 14 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:11,760 means it's like an awesome dual fan cooler and so I don't worry too much 15 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,439 about like if it's spelled correctly or 16 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:17,439 not. So I mean that's the thing about branding is you know like what's a 17 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:21,759 Kijiji? But if you get used to it long enough, then it just doesn't really 18 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,759 matter anymore. Um, anyway, I digress. 19 00:01:21,759 --> 00:01:30,080 Let's talk about graphics cards. So, this is based on NVIDIA's GK 104 chip, 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:36,479 which for the first time in my memory anyway is the for the first time we're 21 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:40,400 seeing the same chip that's featured in their 22 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:46,799 high-end like flagship single GPU product, their dual GPU product now in 23 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:48,880 an X6 something product level. So, this 24 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:52,159 is a mid-range card in terms of the price point that we're going to see. 25 00:01:50,079 --> 00:01:56,399 well, mid-range, like still a gamer level card, but but it's it's more of a 26 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:01,040 like a mainstreamy rather than an enthusiast class card, but it's using 27 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:07,600 the same GPU with the same technology as the 680, the 690, and the 28 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:09,119 670. It's got uh even the clock speeds 29 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,879 are the same. Actually, let's see. They have clock speeds on here. So the 30 00:02:10,959 --> 00:02:19,360 reference cards will have the same clock speeds as a GeForce GTX 670 with the 31 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:27,040 only difference being a 192bit memory bus as compared to a 256-bit memory bus 32 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:30,720 on the GTX 670. So, you got 2 gigs of GD 33 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:32,879 GDDR5 memory due to NVIDIA's in 34 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:38,720 innovative uh memory controller that allows them to still get this nice even 35 00:02:35,519 --> 00:02:40,239 2 gig number in spite of the uh the 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,640 memory bus which would normally have limited them to an either a 1.5 gig 37 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:48,319 memory configuration or a 3 gig memory configuration. You've also got a lot of 38 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:52,160 technology that gets carried over from those basically everything from those 39 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:57,280 higherend cards, including GPU boost, which dynamically adjusts the GPU clock 40 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,959 speeds depending on the load that's being put on the card and how much power 41 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:08,080 is being drawn from the card so that you're always getting the highest performance you can in the applications 42 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:10,000 that demand it. Uh, here got some 43 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:12,560 accessories. Sorry, I am going to keep I am going to keep going with the stuff on 44 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:18,920 the box, but I want to start getting this card open here so that uh that you 45 00:03:15,519 --> 00:03:22,599 guys can check it out because I am 46 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:26,239 extremely excited about the GeForce 47 00:03:22,599 --> 00:03:28,560 660Ti and particularly the power edition 48 00:03:26,239 --> 00:03:32,879 from MSI due to their triple over voltage design. So, here I'll let you 49 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:37,040 guys sort of stare at the board a little bit with Slick's assistance while I talk 50 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:41,760 about some of the other technology that's being carried over from previous 51 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:45,920 edition cards. So, here's a big one. Adaptive VSYNC. So, adaptive VSYNC 52 00:03:44,239 --> 00:03:50,080 basically gives you the best of both worlds. When your frame rate goes above 53 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:54,720 the refresh rate of your monitor, adaptive vsync will turn VSYNC on, which 54 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,319 will give you uh which will reduce the amount of tear. Well, eliminate tearing, 55 00:03:56,959 --> 00:04:02,239 which is when you kind of turn around and you see half of the image was drawn 56 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:06,159 uh while you were looking over here and the other half is drawn while you're looking slightly over here. So, they 57 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,840 don't quite meet up in the middle or up here somewhere. And that's a big 58 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:14,159 problem. And then what's great about adaptive vsync is it turns it off as 59 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:19,120 soon as you get at or below the refresh rate of the monitor. So the benefit of 60 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:25,680 that is that when you have VSYNC on you have to be at an even um multiple of no 61 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:30,160 not a multiple divisor a factor I think it's a factor of the refresh rate of the 62 00:04:27,919 --> 00:04:33,280 monitor or whatever okay that times something has to multiply to the refresh 63 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:39,440 rate. So if you're at a refresh rate of 60 for your monitor you have to run at 64 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:41,600 30 FPS as opposed to 45. So it'll knock 65 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:44,800 you down to a lower frame rate. So what it does is it turns it off to prevent 66 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:50,800 that from happening. So that's good stuff as well. Uh GPU boost. Ah yes, 67 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:56,240 amazing performance per watt as well as class leading idle power consumption 68 00:04:54,080 --> 00:05:01,360 which to me is one of the most important things about it because even the most 69 00:04:57,759 --> 00:05:03,880 hardcore gamer still checks Facebook and 70 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:08,880 email and doesn't necessarily game all the time. So having 71 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:12,880 a video card that doesn't kick out a ton of heat and doesn't consume a ton of 72 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:16,720 power when you're not actually playing video games is very very important to 73 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:20,960 me. Here you can have a look at the twin frozer cooler while I check my notes. So 74 00:05:19,039 --> 00:05:28,160 you've got full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surrounding off of a single card. 75 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:31,440 You've got support for TXA. So TXA is 76 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,280 basically a much a much better way of 77 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:37,759 doing anti-aliasing. So NVIDIA has incorporated a variety of different 78 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:41,919 approaches to get you significantly better image quality without necessarily 79 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,039 the same level of performance hit that we've seen in the 80 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:52,400 past. And what TXA does is it offers a 81 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:57,199 higher level of quality of filtering than has previously been achievable. Now 82 00:05:54,560 --> 00:06:01,919 not all games support it, but like any new technology, we will eventually see 83 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:07,120 it continue to move forward. FXA is of course uh high quality anti-aliasing, 84 00:06:04,479 --> 00:06:10,800 not quite the same as MSAA, but with a much lower performance hit compared to a 85 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:15,199 more traditional anti-aliasing. So, if you don't know what anti-aliasing is, um 86 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:19,600 well, Google's your friend, but we're going to focus on this this card and 87 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:23,440 other aspects of it for now. So, Twin Frozer 4 cooler, lots of different 88 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:27,280 technology. So, you got your dual fans, you got your propeller blades, which 89 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:31,600 with these coatings at the end actually reduce the amount of noise they make, as 90 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:36,080 well as improve the amount of air flow that they push due to the design of the 91 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:41,199 blade. Also, they've added dust repellent technology, which gets the fan 92 00:06:38,319 --> 00:06:45,919 to spin the opposite way the first and when it's first turned on to pull some 93 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:49,919 of the dust out of the fins before it reverses direction and pushes air back 94 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,759 through the fins. So, this keeps dust from settling on the fins and means you 95 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:58,560 won't have to clean your video card as often, if at all, using this technology. 96 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:02,080 So, twin frozer 4 cooler. Yeah. What else? What else do we have to say about 97 00:06:59,759 --> 00:07:06,080 it? Ah, yes. Super pipes. So, these ones out here, the heat pipes that have to 98 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:11,120 carry the heat furthest away from the GPU out to the very edges of the cooler. 99 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:14,560 Those ones are using thicker heat pipes, whereas the ones that are right over the 100 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:18,400 GPU itself and aren't carrying heat very far are using thinner heat pipes. That 101 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:21,840 way they're using the more expensive, thicker heat pipes in the areas where 102 00:07:19,919 --> 00:07:25,759 you really have to work harder to move the heat away from the GPU and spread it 103 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,680 out to the radiator, which covers almost the entire card. Speaking of things that 104 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:34,880 cover almost the entire card, you can see there's a unis right here instead of 105 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:38,000 putting it, you know, lots of gamers love back plates. See the uh see the 106 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:44,240 plate that's covering almost the entirety of the card, including all the 107 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:46,000 VRM as well as the uh RAM modules. And 108 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:49,120 see this fold right here? This gives the card a lot of rigidity. So, lots of 109 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:52,720 gamers love back plates because they can make the card look pretty slick and 110 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:56,160 sexy. But there's a problem with back plates and that is that as soon as you 111 00:07:54,479 --> 00:08:00,440 add a little bit more height to the back of the card, you are reducing the 112 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:03,919 compatibility with multi-GPU configurations. A lot of the time you 113 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:09,599 take two cards with a back plate, you try and put them side by side and you know, try SLI or whatever other config 114 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:12,960 you want and you go, oh, all of a sudden your cards are kind of like like this 115 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:17,520 away from each other because those back plates don't leave enough space. MSI's 116 00:08:15,199 --> 00:08:21,199 approach is to build in this unisync which gives a lot of the benefits of the 117 00:08:19,039 --> 00:08:25,039 back plate including cooling many of the components. You can see with their 118 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:29,199 custom PCB all the components except for a couple memory modules are on the other 119 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:32,080 side of the card. Okay, so you're getting the cooling benefit. Besides, 120 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:36,800 you're getting the active cooling from the fan anyway. If anything, there should be more benefit to doing it this 121 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:40,880 way. You're also getting that extra rigidity to the card. This card has 122 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:44,480 almost no flex. So you get that same benefit that you'd get from a back plate 123 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,880 except that you're putting it on the front and you still maintain a very 124 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:54,880 clean look and all of that good stuff. It's just a matter of where they've put 125 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:58,240 that plate of metal. So in terms of phys 126 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:00,080 other physicality the card pretty much 127 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:05,360 what you've come to expect. I mean it's using the same GPU most of the same 128 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:10,240 technology as a 670 or 680. So, you got dual DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort out. 129 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:14,560 Again, supporting uh NVIDIA 3D Vision surround off of a single card. You've 130 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,600 got two SLI fig fingers, meaning you're going to have support for at least 131 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:23,120 three-way graphics card configurations, which is again very unexpected for what 132 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:28,959 would normally be more of a a mid-range gaming level graphics card. PCI Express 133 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:32,560 3.0 is fully supported by this card. Two 134 00:09:28,959 --> 00:09:34,480 PCIe uh six pin power connectors. It's a 135 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:40,360 very power efficient card. In fact, I'm surprised they even need two of them to 136 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:43,680 be to be perfectly blunt. And 137 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:46,080 um which leads us to the most important 138 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:49,040 things about this card. So number one is something you can't really see that well 139 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:54,160 because there's nothing on the back of the card. And this heat spreader covers 140 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:58,000 all of the PWM for the card. You can't really see anything, but it uses a five 141 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:01,440 plus two phase power design compared to the four plus two phase power design of 142 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:05,640 a reference card. That means better stability and overclocking. and in 143 00:10:02,959 --> 00:10:10,720 theory uh better better overclocks which leads us to the single 144 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:15,040 most important thing about the power edition and that is the fact that it 145 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:22,480 features triple over voltage. Triple over voltage is MSI's sort of branding 146 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:26,760 marketing speak thing for the ability to 147 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:28,880 overvolt the core, the PLL and the 148 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:35,120 memory. Now, I'm going to let that sink in for a 149 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:37,880 second. There won't be another GTX 660Ti 150 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:42,959 at launch that allows overvolting the core, which means that as long as you've 151 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:48,399 got decent cooling on this card, this will be the 660Ti that will overclock 152 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:54,640 better than any other card. Now, this is only the unboxing. I haven't tested it 153 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:56,640 yet. And I do have uh a power edition 154 00:10:54,640 --> 00:11:00,800 triple over voltage card. And I have another one that I'm going to be testing 155 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:06,240 head-to-head to find out if there's an actual benefit. Do you get higher boost 156 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:08,399 clocks from using triple over voltage 157 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:11,600 versus from not using it. So, I'm very excited to check that out. But I'm 158 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:17,839 confident enough that we're going to see the results that I'm going to go ahead and say it now. You guys are going to 159 00:11:14,959 --> 00:11:23,360 want to use MSI Afterburner to overclock your GTX 660Ti Power Edition with triple 160 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:30,160 over voltage. And if you want the most performance per dollar out of a 660Ti, 161 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:35,279 um, this will be the way to go. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and 162 00:11:31,839 --> 00:11:37,279 first look at the 6 GTX 660Ti power 163 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:40,160 edition from MSI. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more 164 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:44,560 unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. 165 00:11:42,399 --> 00:11:49,600 And I forgot to cover the DVI to VGA adapter, two dual Molex to six pin PCIe 166 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:52,959 power connectors, and a quick users guide. Download, of course, the latest 167 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:58,240 drivers from the NVIDIA website rather than using this disc. And um I'll thank 168 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,720 you for bearing with me when I forget things.