GTX 650 Ti Boost Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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curse for more details well this is extremely exciting guys I know you don't
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necessarily like the white box unboxings as much as the retail box ones but this
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is how they come when you get them prior to launch and this is the GeForce GTX
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650 TI boost Edition so it's got uh it's
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got CPU boost which the old one didn't it's got more RAM which the old one
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didn't it's got a wider memory bus Which the old one I mean why are they even
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calling this thing 650 TI this is actually a major step up in terms of
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performance and the actual like technology that's inside it compared to
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the 650 TI and IT addresses a very
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interesting spot in the market so you can see it comes packed in some
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anti-static foam NVIDIA wants the cards they send to reviewers to arrive in one
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piece it also comes in anti-static bubble wrap which we're going to go
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ahead and open up which is then inside
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an anti-static bag so yes it arrived safely
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looking good and uh hopefully when we throw this on the test bench for our
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review it's going to function great and I'm sure it will so the first thing we
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see about the card is that it has NVIDIA's sort of signature Kepler shroud
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it looks really sharp looks really good but is actually not that uh I mean
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compared to something like the 690 or the a Titan cooler it is not as
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expensive to make so you can see where there would have been a polycarbonate window to see the fins underneath and
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where there would have been a glowing logo they've replaced that with a plastic uh textured pattern and then a
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green GeForce GTX on the top it still looks sharp but obviously this is this
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is slightly less expensive they've got their exhaust fan so it's a blower style
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fan on the back this doesn't keep the GPU itself as cool as some of the dual
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fan designs that you're going to see from board Partners but what it does do
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is it takes all the a from inside your case and pushes it out the back so this
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is great for small form factor systems or in systems where optimal ventilation
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is not necessarily available to you you don't want to add a bunch of fans so for
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quiet Computing this is often a better design it's a PCI Express 3.0 card so
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here on the bottom of the card you see it's a 16x card this is pretty much part
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for the course and unlike the 650 TI it
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does have support for SLI which makes sense because I've said this a lot of
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times but low-end card it usually makes
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more sense to buy a single better card versus buying two of them so NVIDIA has
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gone ahead and they have segmented their graphics card and they've gone okay look
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we're only going to put SLI on the cards where it may actually make sense to buy
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two of these cards and run them in SLI the other thing that makes this card
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make more sense to run an SLI is the fact that it has a 192-bit bus at least
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that's what my notes say anyway we can yeah there we go 192-bit bus with two
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gigs of memory so if you were to run two one gig cards in SLI number one is you
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might get some more performance out of the GPU but you're not actually going to
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be able to crank up your resolution because you're going to be limited
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remember two cards running in SLI each with a gig of memory gives you a total
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of one gig of usable memory for the entire graphic subsystem so giving this
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card 2 gigs of memory makes it suitable for modern games at 1080p I'd say 1 gig
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is not quite enough and this contrasts with AMD's recent launch of the 7790
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having only 1 gig of memory I'd say in this price class although this one is a
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little bit higher you got to have two gigs it comes in under the price of the
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7850 which given the performance numbers
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that I am led to believe I'm going to see but haven't tested yet should make
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it very very competitive last thing that they oh yeah uh very low very low power
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only a single six pin connector the back you can see the PCB is actually quite
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short like some of the other GeForce cards we've seen and they've gone with
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their uh um ego extension on the back of
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the card to make it look more like a you know like a more high performance
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graphics card honestly the PCB length does not affect the performance of the
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graphics card and if you don't like the reference design there will be plenty of
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cards available from guys like auss MSI Gigabyte that are using a longer PCB
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with a larger cooler the last thing that I'm really excited to see on this card
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is the fact that it has four outputs natively on some of the uh lower-end
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Kepler cards before we were seeing only three outputs which means you can't
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support three monitors and Surround plus an auxiliary display natively on the
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card without well you can't support it on the card unless the board Partners
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implement the extra connectors on their own love to see this on the reference
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design because while this card even though it's got 2 gigs of RAM is
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probably not suitable for 3x 1080p surround gaming and modern titles it's
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nice to have that available as a productivity thing for guys who are like
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oh well I want to get a decent card that I can run a nice multim monitor setup on
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and I can also game on on a single monitor when I'm not working so clock
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speed wise GPU boost not not only does it come with a higher base clock so it's
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at 980 MHz versus 925 on the older
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cheaper card although I believe that card stays current so I can't
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necessarily call it older but the previously released card it also boosts
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all the way up to a typical boost clock of 1033 so this is at least 10% faster
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when it's running in boost mode versus that older card that's really cool plus
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that 192-bit bus and the extra memory gives you a ton more per performance and
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we're really really excited to check it out it also has 6 GHz gddr5 memory and I
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think that pretty much wraps it up 768 caor just like the old one it is running
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the same GK 106 GPU and without further
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