WEBVTT 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:17.199 Welcome to a very exciting unboxing. This is the all-new GeForce GTX 660Ti. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:21.680 And this particular one is actually pretty special. This is MSI's power 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:28.480 edition of the card, which features their triple overvoltage enhanced PWM 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:30.480 design, as well as their Twin Frozer 4 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:37.600 cooler, which is the, as you might be able to guess, fourth iteration of their 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.680 Twin Frozer cooler. Twin Frozer is a 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:45.120 funny thing because when I first heard of a Twin 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:48.760 Frozer cool cooler, I was like, "Oh, 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:52.719 they spelled it wrong." cuz it's F R O Z 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:54.719 R and then I was like like you know were 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:58.960 they paying like a consultancy firm like per character to come up with the name 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 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.799 this point I just I don't care anymore because a twin frozer just basically 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 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:13.439 about like if it's spelled correctly or 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 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:21.759 Kijiji? But if you get used to it long enough, then it just doesn't really 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:23.759 matter anymore. Um, anyway, I digress. 00:01:21.759 --> 00:01:30.080 Let's talk about graphics cards. So, this is based on NVIDIA's GK 104 chip, 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 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:40.400 seeing the same chip that's featured in their 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:46.799 high-end like flagship single GPU product, their dual GPU product now in 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:48.880 an X6 something product level. So, this 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. 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 00:01:54.720 --> 00:02:01.040 like a mainstreamy rather than an enthusiast class card, but it's using 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:07.600 the same GPU with the same technology as the 680, the 690, and the 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:09.119 670. It's got uh even the clock speeds 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:12.879 are the same. Actually, let's see. They have clock speeds on here. So the 00:02:10.959 --> 00:02:19.360 reference cards will have the same clock speeds as a GeForce GTX 670 with the 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:27.040 only difference being a 192bit memory bus as compared to a 256-bit memory bus 00:02:23.040 --> 00:02:30.720 on the GTX 670. So, you got 2 gigs of GD 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:32.879 GDDR5 memory due to NVIDIA's in 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:38.720 innovative uh memory controller that allows them to still get this nice even 00:02:35.519 --> 00:02:40.239 2 gig number in spite of the uh the 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:44.640 memory bus which would normally have limited them to an either a 1.5 gig 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:48.319 memory configuration or a 3 gig memory configuration. You've also got a lot of 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:52.160 technology that gets carried over from those basically everything from those 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:57.280 higherend cards, including GPU boost, which dynamically adjusts the GPU clock 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.959 speeds depending on the load that's being put on the card and how much power 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 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:10.000 that demand it. Uh, here got some 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 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 00:03:15.519 --> 00:03:22.599 guys can check it out because I am 00:03:18.920 --> 00:03:26.239 extremely excited about the GeForce 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:28.560 660Ti and particularly the power edition 00:03:26.239 --> 00:03:32.879 from MSI due to their triple over voltage design. So, here I'll let you 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 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:41.760 about some of the other technology that's being carried over from previous 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:45.920 edition cards. So, here's a big one. Adaptive VSYNC. So, adaptive VSYNC 00:03:44.239 --> 00:03:50.080 basically gives you the best of both worlds. When your frame rate goes above 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:54.720 the refresh rate of your monitor, adaptive vsync will turn VSYNC on, which 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:58.319 will give you uh which will reduce the amount of tear. Well, eliminate tearing, 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 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 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 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:14.159 problem. And then what's great about adaptive vsync is it turns it off as 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 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 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 00:04:27.919 --> 00:04:33.280 monitor or whatever okay that times something has to multiply to the refresh 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 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:41.600 30 FPS as opposed to 45. So it'll knock 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 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:50.800 that from happening. So that's good stuff as well. Uh GPU boost. Ah yes, 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:56.240 amazing performance per watt as well as class leading idle power consumption 00:04:54.080 --> 00:05:01.360 which to me is one of the most important things about it because even the most 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:03.880 hardcore gamer still checks Facebook and 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:08.880 email and doesn't necessarily game all the time. So having 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 00:05:10.880 --> 00:05:16.720 power when you're not actually playing video games is very very important to 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 00:05:19.039 --> 00:05:28.160 you've got full support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surrounding off of a single card. 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:31.440 You've got support for TXA. So TXA is 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:33.280 basically a much a much better way of 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:37.759 doing anti-aliasing. So NVIDIA has incorporated a variety of different 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:41.919 approaches to get you significantly better image quality without necessarily 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.039 the same level of performance hit that we've seen in the 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:52.400 past. And what TXA does is it offers a 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:57.199 higher level of quality of filtering than has previously been achievable. Now 00:05:54.560 --> 00:06:01.919 not all games support it, but like any new technology, we will eventually see 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:07.120 it continue to move forward. FXA is of course uh high quality anti-aliasing, 00:06:04.479 --> 00:06:10.800 not quite the same as MSAA, but with a much lower performance hit compared to a 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:15.199 more traditional anti-aliasing. So, if you don't know what anti-aliasing is, um 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:19.600 well, Google's your friend, but we're going to focus on this this card and 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:23.440 other aspects of it for now. So, Twin Frozer 4 cooler, lots of different 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:27.280 technology. So, you got your dual fans, you got your propeller blades, which 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:31.600 with these coatings at the end actually reduce the amount of noise they make, as 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 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:41.199 blade. Also, they've added dust repellent technology, which gets the fan 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 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:49.919 of the dust out of the fins before it reverses direction and pushes air back 00:06:48.080 --> 00:06:53.759 through the fins. So, this keeps dust from settling on the fins and means you 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:58.560 won't have to clean your video card as often, if at all, using this technology. 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:02.080 So, twin frozer 4 cooler. Yeah. What else? What else do we have to say about 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:06.080 it? Ah, yes. Super pipes. So, these ones out here, the heat pipes that have to 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:11.120 carry the heat furthest away from the GPU out to the very edges of the cooler. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.560 Those ones are using thicker heat pipes, whereas the ones that are right over the 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:18.400 GPU itself and aren't carrying heat very far are using thinner heat pipes. That 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:21.840 way they're using the more expensive, thicker heat pipes in the areas where 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 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.680 out to the radiator, which covers almost the entire card. Speaking of things that 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:34.880 cover almost the entire card, you can see there's a unis right here instead of 00:07:32.960 --> 00:07:38.000 putting it, you know, lots of gamers love back plates. See the uh see the 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:44.240 plate that's covering almost the entirety of the card, including all the 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:46.000 VRM as well as the uh RAM modules. And 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:49.120 see this fold right here? This gives the card a lot of rigidity. So, lots of 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:52.720 gamers love back plates because they can make the card look pretty slick and 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 00:07:54.479 --> 00:08:00.440 add a little bit more height to the back of the card, you are reducing the 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:03.919 compatibility with multi-GPU configurations. A lot of the time you 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 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 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:17.520 away from each other because those back plates don't leave enough space. MSI's 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:21.199 approach is to build in this unisync which gives a lot of the benefits of the 00:08:19.039 --> 00:08:25.039 back plate including cooling many of the components. You can see with their 00:08:22.400 --> 00:08:29.199 custom PCB all the components except for a couple memory modules are on the other 00:08:26.800 --> 00:08:32.080 side of the card. Okay, so you're getting the cooling benefit. Besides, 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 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:40.880 way. You're also getting that extra rigidity to the card. This card has 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 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:48.880 except that you're putting it on the front and you still maintain a very 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 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:58.240 that plate of metal. So in terms of phys 00:08:54.880 --> 00:09:00.080 other physicality the card pretty much 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 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:10.240 technology as a 670 or 680. So, you got dual DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort out. 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:14.560 Again, supporting uh NVIDIA 3D Vision surround off of a single card. You've 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.600 got two SLI fig fingers, meaning you're going to have support for at least 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:23.120 three-way graphics card configurations, which is again very unexpected for what 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:28.959 would normally be more of a a mid-range gaming level graphics card. PCI Express 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:32.560 3.0 is fully supported by this card. Two 00:09:28.959 --> 00:09:34.480 PCIe uh six pin power connectors. It's a 00:09:32.560 --> 00:09:40.360 very power efficient card. In fact, I'm surprised they even need two of them to 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:43.680 be to be perfectly blunt. And 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:46.080 um which leads us to the most important 00:09:43.680 --> 00:09:49.040 things about this card. So number one is something you can't really see that well 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:54.160 because there's nothing on the back of the card. And this heat spreader covers 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 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:01.440 plus two phase power design compared to the four plus two phase power design of 00:09:59.680 --> 00:10:05.640 a reference card. That means better stability and overclocking. and in 00:10:02.959 --> 00:10:10.720 theory uh better better overclocks which leads us to the single 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:15.040 most important thing about the power edition and that is the fact that it 00:10:12.640 --> 00:10:22.480 features triple over voltage. Triple over voltage is MSI's sort of branding 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:26.760 marketing speak thing for the ability to 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.880 overvolt the core, the PLL and the 00:10:26.760 --> 00:10:35.120 memory. Now, I'm going to let that sink in for a 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:37.880 second. There won't be another GTX 660Ti 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:42.959 at launch that allows overvolting the core, which means that as long as you've 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:48.399 got decent cooling on this card, this will be the 660Ti that will overclock 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:54.640 better than any other card. Now, this is only the unboxing. I haven't tested it 00:10:50.800 --> 00:10:56.640 yet. And I do have uh a power edition 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:00.800 triple over voltage card. And I have another one that I'm going to be testing 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 00:11:02.880 --> 00:11:08.399 clocks from using triple over voltage 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 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 00:11:14.959 --> 00:11:23.360 want to use MSI Afterburner to overclock your GTX 660Ti Power Edition with triple 00:11:21.040 --> 00:11:30.160 over voltage. And if you want the most performance per dollar out of a 660Ti, 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:35.279 um, this will be the way to go. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and 00:11:31.839 --> 00:11:37.279 first look at the 6 GTX 660Ti power 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:40.160 edition from MSI. And don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:44.560 unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. 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 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:52.959 power connectors, and a quick users guide. Download, of course, the latest 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:58.240 drivers from the NVIDIA website rather than using this disc. And um I'll thank 00:11:56.160 --> 00:12:00.720 you for bearing with me when I forget things.