1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:09,599 Today we're going to be unboxing a very exciting product from EVGA. This is the 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:12,880 GeForce GTX 460. So that is 20 less than 3 00:00:09,599 --> 00:00:16,160 the GTX 480, 10 less than the GTX 470, 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:19,199 and only five less than the GTX 465. But 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,880 the performance of the 460 is actually 6 00:00:19,199 --> 00:00:28,880 very, very close to its big brother, the 465. And it's quite a lot cheaper. Now, 7 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:30,640 it does have less RAM, so that means at 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:34,640 high resolutions, you might be a little bit limited in terms of running like 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:38,480 huge anti-aliasing on high resolutions, but with the price of this card, you're 10 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:43,520 probably not going to be running at 2560 x600 with a 30-in monitor anyway. So, 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:50,480 I'm going to go ahead and start breaking the seals here. So the GTX 465 or 460 is 12 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:55,120 a bit of a change from the other Firmeny based cards in that NVIDIA has actually 13 00:00:53,199 --> 00:01:00,719 reworked the architecture of this card quite a bit. That means that power 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:03,359 consumption is down, heat output is down 15 00:01:00,719 --> 00:01:08,320 and performance is up versus some of the other 400 series cards. It also means 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:14,880 that the price is down. So, this is around $200 US, and that puts it 17 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,960 securely in a sort of uh value 18 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:21,200 enthusiast gamer price point if such a thing existed. So, here's a little quick 19 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:26,560 start guide. Next, we have a graphics card user guide. Okay, so that shows us 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:28,960 some super basics. Talks about EVJ's 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:33,040 advanced RMA program. Talks a little bit about their precision software, which is 22 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:38,600 for overclocking. That's a pretty good value ad as well as EVGA social 23 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:42,720 networks. Okay, cool. Let's go ahead and put that down. 24 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:46,560 We've got an EVGA sticker as well as an EVGA driver disc. Don't use this driver 25 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:53,840 disc. Download the latest off the NVIDIA website. Ooh, that's a nice sticker. 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:56,000 EVGA GeForce GTX 400 GPUs. So, I could 27 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:00,000 put it there if I wanted to, but I don't. Next, let's go and have a look at 28 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,920 the card itself. So, I haven't seen an EVGA box like this before. It looks like 29 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:09,119 they've redesigned things a little bit. In terms of accessories, we've got a 30 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:13,920 mini HDMI to HDMI dongle. We have a dual 31 00:02:09,119 --> 00:02:16,400 Molex to one PCIe 6 pin dongle. Then we 32 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:22,959 have two Molex to one PCIe 6. Okay, so we have two of those. Then we have a DVI 33 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,640 to VGA adapter. And that's it. Then we 34 00:02:22,959 --> 00:02:29,760 have the card itself. It's quite a bit smaller than the G other GTX 400 series 35 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:34,400 cards because all of the other cards despite having different model names are 36 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:39,200 based on the same core and most of them are even based on the same PCB even if 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:44,959 the coolers are slightly different. This one however is based on a much smaller 38 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:49,760 PCB. So it ends up being a much smaller card and it's also a smaller core. So 39 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:54,959 you can see where the uh where the GPU core actually is on the back of the GPU. 40 00:02:53,120 --> 00:03:01,440 Back of the video card. See GPU and video card. I use these terms interchangeably, but the GPU is actually 41 00:02:58,239 --> 00:03:03,760 the graphics processing unit there. And 42 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:08,400 the video card is the whole thing with a PCB, which in this case is black, a GPU 43 00:03:06,319 --> 00:03:12,400 on it, RAM on it, all that good stuff. So at the top, we're going to find an 44 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:16,560 SLI connector. It is SLI ready, but it does not support 3-way SLI because for 45 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:20,959 three-way SLI, you would need two SLI connectors. We have an 80 mm fan on the 46 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:25,440 front, and you can see that it's using a flower style heatsink that is actually 47 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:30,720 uh here, cameraman, just look at that card for a second. I'll be back. It 48 00:03:28,239 --> 00:03:36,319 actually closely resembles the stock Intel heatsink where you've got a copper 49 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:40,400 core at the back. And in this case, we can see there is a copper base with a 50 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:45,040 couple of heat pipes attached to it. And then it's got like this uh radial fin 51 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:49,680 thing going on. And I've actually seen Intel heat sinks that are shaped exactly 52 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:54,640 like that. So it looks like uh you know it's a bit of a tribute to Intel's 53 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:59,920 thermal engineers that yes, that design does work. We've got two heat pipes 54 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,680 coming out here and uh presumably coming 55 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:06,319 over here where there's more heat sink and over here and presumably coming out 56 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:11,920 over there. So you can actually see yes there is uh additional heat sink 57 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:16,799 material past that little uh flower shape and that's having heat transported 58 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:23,120 to it by the heat pipe. So here we've got PCI Express 16x connector and at the 59 00:04:20,479 --> 00:04:27,680 back of the card it still does pull back a fair bit of power but that's what you 60 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:32,479 generally expect from a $200 plus gaming card. So you need two six pin PCI 61 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:38,080 Express connectors. And let's have a look at what we've got in terms 62 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:39,280 of cameraman. What are you doing? Oh, 63 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,919 you're looking down the shroud. Okay. Well, I haven't looked there yet, so I don't know what's there, but I guess 64 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,280 here, I'll look through the camera, too. Oh, we can see the heat sink. Okay. Hold 65 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:50,320 on. I'm going to look. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can see where the heat pipe 66 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:53,600 attaches to that heat sink in there. Cool. All right. So, let's turn around 67 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:59,440 and see what we've got in terms of output connectors. So, we have two DVI 68 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:04,479 and one HDMI connector. Now, this card does support NVIDIA surround as well as 69 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:08,800 3D vision technology. So, bearing in mind though that you would need two 70 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,880 cards to run surround gaming. So, you can only use two of these three 71 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:19,919 connectors at any given time. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the EVG8 72 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:22,080 GeForce GTX 460 768meg version. Bearing 73 00:05:19,919 --> 00:05:25,919 in mind there is a 1 gig version that will perform slightly better due to 74 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:29,759 extra memory as well as extra memory bandwidth. 75 00:05:27,919 --> 00:05:36,680 The cameraman pointed out to me this is actually a bumper sticker. So you would 76 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,680 apply it to your bumper like so.