1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:07,040 This is a video card that's been highly anticipated and has received fantastic 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:13,280 reviews across the web. This is the GeForce GTX 460. And this particular 3 00:00:10,559 --> 00:00:16,880 version is not your run-of-the-mill GTX 460. Now, I've received a lot of 4 00:00:14,799 --> 00:00:22,160 requests over the uh time that I've been doing my unboxings and blog videos to 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:27,119 take a look at cards that don't feature the reference NVIDIA or ATI design. 6 00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:31,199 Well, I'm finally doing it. This is another non-reference card. I looked at 7 00:00:29,039 --> 00:00:37,600 another one recently. So, this features MSI's cyclone cooler. It also has their 8 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:41,840 military grade, sorry, military class components. So, you can see here that 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:46,480 includes the high conductive capacitors, solid capacitors, solid state chokes, as 10 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:50,719 well as no buzz. And this is a really interesting thing for them to call out 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:54,239 because I've seen a lot of complaints over the last few years with many 12 00:00:52,239 --> 00:00:58,399 high-end cards that as soon as you start to play a game, you hear like a whine or 13 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:02,399 a buzz. And that's from this style of choke. With a solid state choke, a 14 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:07,520 well-built one, and a well-designed PCB, you can eliminate that noise so that if 15 00:01:04,479 --> 00:01:08,960 you have a quiet fan, you hear zero 16 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:15,040 noise from your graphics card. So, that's something I'm definitely going to take a look at when I actually get this 17 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:18,479 video card out of the box and running. They are also talking about MSI 18 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:23,119 Afterburner, which is a terrific utility co-developed by MSI and Revet Tuner. 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:27,119 It's my overclocking utility of choice. You've probably actually seen me use it 20 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:31,200 in a couple of videos, even featuring other brands of graphics cards because 21 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:36,400 it works great. And then let's have a look at what else we've got. 22 00:01:33,079 --> 00:01:37,759 Uh oh, okay. Cameraman wants to look at 23 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:42,079 that for a while. You can pause it if you want to read that, I suppose. Uh, you know what? Let's start getting the 24 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:47,439 card out of the box and then I can talk about some of the other bullet points that make this particular one special. 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:53,040 MSI does include a three-year warranty with their graphics cards. And 26 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:57,439 so, wow, my box fell apart. Look at that. Hopefully they have a warranty on 27 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:03,439 the box, too. Haha. Wow. I like I unboxed it like more than usual. Huh. 28 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:09,319 Okay. Well, there you can see the box and it's all all of its glory. Just like 29 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:12,000 that. Okay. So, let's get the card open 30 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:17,920 here. In terms of accessories, we've got pretty standard fair. We have a DVI to 31 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:21,440 VGA adapter, a DVI to HDMI adapter. 32 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:24,000 We've got uh two Molex to six pin PCI 33 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:28,000 Express power adapters. And then we have a graphics card. Now, this is an odd 34 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,440 one. Oh, no. There it is. I was going to say there's no driver disc. I don't have 35 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:37,280 to tell you not to use it and to throw it away, but there it is. Throw it away. 36 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:39,120 And then we've got a quick users guide. 37 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,000 So, that's going to show you how to install your graphics card, tell you a 38 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:47,239 little bit about it, show you how to install the drivers. Okay. And then the 39 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:52,720 last thing we have here is something about the 460 GTX series. 40 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:56,560 So installing MSI live update. Oh, okay. So this is their automatic driver update 41 00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:01,640 feature. MSI live update. So they're just giving you some instructions on how 42 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:06,040 to use that. Let's take it 43 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:08,920 out of the anti-static wrap 44 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:16,080 here and have a look at this very highly anticipated card. So 45 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:18,800 here we have it. This is the MSI GTX 46 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:22,800 460. This is a 1 gig over factory overclocked card featuring their Cyclone 47 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,720 cooler. So, the Cyclone cooler, here's an interesting that I noticed about it, 48 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:32,480 and I actually talked about this in my other GTX 460 unboxing is you see the 49 00:03:30,239 --> 00:03:36,879 shape of this cooler. I called out that it looks a lot like a stock Intel 50 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:42,080 reference cooler. And what I didn't realize is that why NVIDIA is probably 51 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:47,040 using this in their reference design cards is because MSI has been using this 52 00:03:44,799 --> 00:03:50,400 exact Cyclone heat sink for a couple generations now and it does a really 53 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:55,840 good job. Now, the difference between the Cyclone and the stock cooler is a 54 00:03:53,519 --> 00:03:58,319 the Cyclone doesn't have a shroud, so you actually get slightly better 55 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:03,920 performance that way because everything's exposed to the open air in your case. And the second thing is that 56 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:09,120 it actually has a couple of heat pipes in addition to the uh to the fins on the 57 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:12,720 bottom that carry up to a couple more fin banks that are going to benefit from 58 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:16,560 some of the incidental air flow from this fan. So, it's going to blow down, 59 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:19,840 but it's also going to have a lot of air going out this way, and that's going to 60 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:23,320 take away a lot of the heat that these heat pipes carry out to the fins on the 61 00:04:22,079 --> 00:04:27,120 sides there. Cameraman is having a nice look 62 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:31,360 at the cooler. I mean, the Cyclone cooler is really uh one of the big 63 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:37,160 talking points about this card because and I'm going to do some testing on it, 64 00:04:33,280 --> 00:04:40,800 but MSI's claims are that it is up to 65 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:44,560 15.7% quieter under load and also that 66 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:46,560 it will cool much better at that same uh 67 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:51,360 quieter level. That was really awkward. Okay, it cools better and it's quieter 68 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:54,400 there. That's easy. It has a 90 mm fan, 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:56,479 so a 9 cm PWM controlled fan. So that 70 00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:02,520 means that even at very low speeds, it will manage to start itself up, which is 71 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:04,639 the problem with nonPWM fans. It 72 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:08,240 has Yeah, I think that's pretty much everything else I wanted to say about 73 00:05:05,919 --> 00:05:13,600 it. Okay, let's have a look at the card itself. This has a PCI Express 16x 74 00:05:10,479 --> 00:05:17,479 interface. It is SLI ready, so you can 75 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:20,560 use up to two GeForce GTX 460 cards in 76 00:05:17,479 --> 00:05:25,360 SLI. And let's see what we've got for 77 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:28,240 output options. We have two DVI ports. 78 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:33,600 and one mini HDMI port on the back of the card. So, that means that you do 79 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:41,039 have support for up to three monitors in SLI mode. It does support 3D vision 80 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:42,479 surround. Okay. And then, okay, I'm just 81 00:05:41,039 --> 00:05:47,120 going to take that right off. In terms of power requirements, it's not nearly 82 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:52,639 as power hungry as many of the other Fermy series cards, but it still does 83 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,000 require two PCI Express six pin connectors on the back. So, if you're 84 00:05:54,400 --> 00:06:00,160 going to run SLI, make sure that you've got four of these babies. And I think 85 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:05,600 that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say. This is the Cyclone 86 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:09,440 cooled version of the Okay, I don't know what cameraman's looking at. He wants to 87 00:06:07,199 --> 00:06:12,400 see the back of the card. Okay, cameraman's looking at the back of the 88 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:18,080 card. I hope you're enjoying this. That's where the GPU is. Uh, you can deduce 89 00:06:16,479 --> 00:06:22,240 that from the fact that, see, I'm I'm running out of things to talk about here. You can deduce that from the fact 90 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:26,560 that there's a bunch of components on the back of the PCB and also that that 91 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:32,560 is where the cooler is positioned on the front of the card. Thank you for 92 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:39,520 checking out my unboxing of the MSI N460 93 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:39,520 GTX Cyclone 1 gig OC video card.