WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:07.040 This is a video card that's been highly anticipated and has received fantastic 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:13.280 reviews across the web. This is the GeForce GTX 460. And this particular 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 00:00:14.799 --> 00:00:22.160 requests over the uh time that I've been doing my unboxings and blog videos to 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:27.119 take a look at cards that don't feature the reference NVIDIA or ATI design. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:31.199 Well, I'm finally doing it. This is another non-reference card. I looked at 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:37.600 another one recently. So, this features MSI's cyclone cooler. It also has their 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:41.840 military grade, sorry, military class components. So, you can see here that 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:46.480 includes the high conductive capacitors, solid capacitors, solid state chokes, as 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:50.719 well as no buzz. And this is a really interesting thing for them to call out 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.239 because I've seen a lot of complaints over the last few years with many 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 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:02.399 a buzz. And that's from this style of choke. With a solid state choke, a 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:07.520 well-built one, and a well-designed PCB, you can eliminate that noise so that if 00:01:04.479 --> 00:01:08.960 you have a quiet fan, you hear zero 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 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:18.479 video card out of the box and running. They are also talking about MSI 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:23.119 Afterburner, which is a terrific utility co-developed by MSI and Revet Tuner. 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:27.119 It's my overclocking utility of choice. You've probably actually seen me use it 00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:31.200 in a couple of videos, even featuring other brands of graphics cards because 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:36.400 it works great. And then let's have a look at what else we've got. 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:37.759 Uh oh, okay. Cameraman wants to look at 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 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. 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:53.040 MSI does include a three-year warranty with their graphics cards. And 00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:57.439 so, wow, my box fell apart. Look at that. Hopefully they have a warranty on 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:03.439 the box, too. Haha. Wow. I like I unboxed it like more than usual. Huh. 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 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:12.000 that. Okay. So, let's get the card open 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:17.920 here. In terms of accessories, we've got pretty standard fair. We have a DVI to 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:21.440 VGA adapter, a DVI to HDMI adapter. 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:24.000 We've got uh two Molex to six pin PCI 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:28.000 Express power adapters. And then we have a graphics card. Now, this is an odd 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 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. 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:39.120 And then we've got a quick users guide. 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:42.000 So, that's going to show you how to install your graphics card, tell you a 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:47.239 little bit about it, show you how to install the drivers. Okay. And then the 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:52.720 last thing we have here is something about the 460 GTX series. 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:56.560 So installing MSI live update. Oh, okay. So this is their automatic driver update 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:01.640 feature. MSI live update. So they're just giving you some instructions on how 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:06.040 to use that. Let's take it 00:03:01.640 --> 00:03:08.920 out of the anti-static wrap 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:16.080 here and have a look at this very highly anticipated card. So 00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:18.800 here we have it. This is the MSI GTX 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:22.800 460. This is a 1 gig over factory overclocked card featuring their Cyclone 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:26.720 cooler. So, the Cyclone cooler, here's an interesting that I noticed about it, 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:32.480 and I actually talked about this in my other GTX 460 unboxing is you see the 00:03:30.239 --> 00:03:36.879 shape of this cooler. I called out that it looks a lot like a stock Intel 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:42.080 reference cooler. And what I didn't realize is that why NVIDIA is probably 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:47.040 using this in their reference design cards is because MSI has been using this 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:50.400 exact Cyclone heat sink for a couple generations now and it does a really 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:55.840 good job. Now, the difference between the Cyclone and the stock cooler is a 00:03:53.519 --> 00:03:58.319 the Cyclone doesn't have a shroud, so you actually get slightly better 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 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 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:12.720 bottom that carry up to a couple more fin banks that are going to benefit from 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:16.560 some of the incidental air flow from this fan. So, it's going to blow down, 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 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 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:27.120 sides there. Cameraman is having a nice look 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:31.360 at the cooler. I mean, the Cyclone cooler is really uh one of the big 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:37.160 talking points about this card because and I'm going to do some testing on it, 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:40.800 but MSI's claims are that it is up to 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:44.560 15.7% quieter under load and also that 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:46.560 it will cool much better at that same uh 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:51.360 quieter level. That was really awkward. Okay, it cools better and it's quieter 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:54.400 there. That's easy. It has a 90 mm fan, 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:56.479 so a 9 cm PWM controlled fan. So that 00:04:54.400 --> 00:05:02.520 means that even at very low speeds, it will manage to start itself up, which is 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:04.639 the problem with nonPWM fans. It 00:05:02.520 --> 00:05:08.240 has Yeah, I think that's pretty much everything else I wanted to say about 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 00:05:10.479 --> 00:05:17.479 interface. It is SLI ready, so you can 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:20.560 use up to two GeForce GTX 460 cards in 00:05:17.479 --> 00:05:25.360 SLI. And let's see what we've got for 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:28.240 output options. We have two DVI ports. 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 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:41.039 have support for up to three monitors in SLI mode. It does support 3D vision 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:42.479 surround. Okay. And then, okay, I'm just 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:47.120 going to take that right off. In terms of power requirements, it's not nearly 00:05:44.960 --> 00:05:52.639 as power hungry as many of the other Fermy series cards, but it still does 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.000 require two PCI Express six pin connectors on the back. So, if you're 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 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:05.600 that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say. This is the Cyclone 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 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:12.400 see the back of the card. Okay, cameraman's looking at the back of the 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 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 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 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:32.560 is where the cooler is positioned on the front of the card. Thank you for 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:39.520 checking out my unboxing of the MSI N460 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:39.520 GTX Cyclone 1 gig OC video card.