MSI GeForce GTX 670 Power Edition Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the MSI GTX GeForce GTX 670 power
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Edition so this is unique because it has triple voltage that is an enhanced power
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delivery design which allows you to actually overvolt the GPU which
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reference boards can't do so you can use MSI After Burner which is conspicuously
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missing at little badge on the front ah there it is you can use MSI afterburner
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to overclock this graphics card significantly better probably in theory
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you know I can't guarantee overclocking results than a referenced GTX 670 or
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even a non-referenced GTX 670 that
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doesn't use their you know military class beefy components as well as their
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unique voltage controller design that actually allows the card to be
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overvolted because Normal GTX 670s have
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uh some trouble with that so here we go triple over voltage by MSI afterburner
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so voltage adjustment of GPU memory and PLL by After Burner military class 3
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components we've come to expect this from these guys so they're super far
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chokes highly conductive capacitors capacitors capacitors and solid caps MSI
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After Burner we've talked about already enhanced pwm design enhances
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overclocking stability okay got it and
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media's comment to Twin frozer thermal design ah yes so it uses their twin
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frozer cooler this uses a twin uh hey
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Alex does this used twin frozer three or four four okay thank you we've actually
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got Alex here from MSI while we film these and then I have to give these back
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to him to take with him because uh he needs them for some kind of sorry where
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you going uh Alaska he says he's going to Alaska
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with them but I don't believe that for a second so dual Molex to uh uh six pin
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PCIe connectors you've got two of them in terms of included accessories you
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usually find those with MSI cards down here DV to VGA as well as you know users
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guide driver disc you don't need and all that normal stuff now let's get into the
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graphics card itself so the most unique thing about this card as I said before
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is not what you're going to find on the card however it does have their twin
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frozer 4 cooler so twin frozer keeps
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evolving the original twin frozer was just two fans on a heat sink the twin
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frozer 2 added super pipes the twin frozer 3 added the propeller blade fans
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which with their coating at the end here is less conducive to noise production or
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less less noisy because of the way that the turbulence is reduced as well as uh
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aha the the inclusion with Trin frozer 4 is the fact that the fan spin backwards
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for a little while before spinning forward which is helpful for reducing
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dust buildup on the heat sink itself because you can build the best heat sink in the world but then you cake it up
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with dust and it doesn't work at all so so that's uh that's all the different
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things that have gone into twin frozer it also looks cooler now than it used to
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uh card design so check this out it has a full board I don't know how much you
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can see it but you see here it has a full board unisync that actually adds to
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the structural rigidity of the board as well as increasing cooling so any
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components that need cooling you can see they have thermal pads for things like
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RAM right there so they're making contact spreading that heat out and any
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components that don't need cooling are popping up through it see just like that
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however that's not to say they're not getting any cooling anyway because the design of the twin frozer cooler blows
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air down over the entire PCB anyhow uh
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you find most of the other stuff that you're used to dual DVI DisplayPort as
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well as HDMI out so this is a GTX 600
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series card which means you got full support for NVIDIA uh 3D Vision surround
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off of a single card and with a 670 you can actually get away with that however
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with some of the lower end stuff you aren't going to be able to run three displays at 1080P and 3D and at any kind
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of you know decent frame rate I mean this is probably where I would start and
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then maybe add another one if you're not happy with the frame rate speaking of
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adding another one GTX 670 does support up to four-way SLI so 1 2 3 or four
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cards are all supported and you got ah
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yes non-reference PCB so we've talked about this a little bit already but the
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reference GTX 670 PCB is like here cuts
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off here so there's just not as much room to put on beefy power components
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and to have the power connectors at the end of the board which is a little bit
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better for cable management and to just have more room to lay things out rather
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than cramping them all together so that's the advantage of getting a non-
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reference card for something like a high-end GPU like a GTX 670 so I think
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that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 670 power Edition
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