MSI GeForce GTX 670 OC 2GB 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 GeForce GTX 670 OC so this is an
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overclocked version of this already very
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fast very well overclockable hence the
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uh the factory overclocked editions of the card that are available at launch
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GPU so this is using the GK 104 GPU from
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NVIDIA which is the same one that is used in their Flagship single GPU card
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the GTX 680 but the only difference is they've cut back some of the Cuda course
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and they have that's about it they dialed back
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the frequency a little bit but you look at guys like MSI going and releasing
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1.04 5 GHz graphics cards and the
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frequency isn't dialed back at all
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so what what what am I going to say right because that's the only difference
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the uh the memory is still clocked at 6 GHz and it is still using a 256-bit bus
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which is the first time we've seen that in quite a while I mean GTX 570 had the
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memory bus cut back from the 580 the 470
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had the memory bus cut back from the 480
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and then even going back to the 260 was cut back from the uh from the 280 so
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yeah this is yeah this is like a totally totally new thing for us to see that
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NVIDIA didn't do that moving right along
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GPU boost is supported which means that it will dynamically adjust the clock
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speed of your graphics card according to the power and heat attributes that it is
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aiming for so whatever targets it'll just ramp things up according to how
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much headro it has left this guy comes with a DVI VGA adapter two dual Molex to
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single PCI E6 pin adapters a driver disc which you shouldn't use just download
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the latest as well as
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a whatever this is Quick Start guide and
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then another quick start guide awesome this is a really old character I don't
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think they've used that one since like G4 6,000 Series so this this guide must
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be uh sort of recycled here but you know there's no point if it ain't broke don't
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fix it right new graphics card doesn't necessarily mean the rules for plugging
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in a PCI Express card change am I right
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okay so let's get this baby opened up I
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can already see some trademark MSI stuff going on over here there are little blue
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covers for the uh connectors as well as
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the uh display ports and the ports that
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you connect to displays that are not called DisplayPort uh as well as their
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also somewhat trademark almost black PCB which you'll see on like other MSI
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products such as the GTX 560 TI Hawk see
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not quite black but still looks really slick in your case just going to put
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that aside for now um what am I missing
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here right
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two gigs right it has two gigs of memory which means that even if you're running a surround configuration you should
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still be okay I mean yeah the Radeon
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ht750 if you're especially if you're running three high resolution displays
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might perform a little bit better in your given game but you're going to be
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missing the 3D Vision surround support as well as fizx and all the other
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exclusive NVIDIA Technologies including their txaa modes which give you better
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image quality but with a lesser performance hit compared to traditional
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multi sampling anti Elia sync as well as adaptive vsync which gives you
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especially in those multi-display configurations this can be a big problem
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because vsync if you go above the display above the refresh rate of your
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monitor will cause tearing which means that instead of being aligned things
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will look kind of like this in the middle of your screen and if you go below it has to use a multiple of or a
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um a factor of your refresh rate so that
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means if you are capable of running at 55 FPS it'll chalk you all the way down
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to 30 because you're running vsync so
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it'll turn it adaptive vsync turns it on when you're up there and off when you're
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down here so you can get the most out of your graphics card three plus one
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displays are supported so we've got HDMI
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DisplayPort and then two DVI ports so you can run three of those in 3D Vision
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surround and then one auxiliary display for you know system monitoring utilities
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or whatever else that you need to show on that for display so that is right up
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to four displays 4k monitor support as well as HDMI 1.4a gives you 3D over
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HDMI as well as a very efficient PCB
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design so you can see NVIDIA's reference design which is what this card is using
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even though it is Factory overclock so it is slightly non-reference is a very
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very short PCB and NVIDIA has relocated the power delivery to the other side of
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the GPU which is something that we haven't really seen before except on you
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know dual GPU cards where they don't really have a choice and they have to
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kind of Reagle things uh pretty differently compared to a single GPU
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card multiple SLI connectors means we are compatible with multi-way SLI
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configurations and we are also using PCI Express 3.0 the card is also as you can
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clearly see fully capable of supporting up to 4 gigs of memory without any
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difficulty so that would be a great configuration two 4 gig cards with a
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three monitor setup means you're going to have enough memory to store all the
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textures that you need as well as the Uber horsepower that you need from the
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gpus themselves in order to drive that kind of a resolution so for anyone
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considering an SLI configuration for the GTX 670 I would definitely recommend
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going with the 4 Gig cards if you're going to have multiple monitors or even
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one high resolution monitor such as that one that's a 30-in monitor running at
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2560 x600 I think that pretty much covers it
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this card uses a blower design it's a reference card so almost all of the heat
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that is is accumulated here and cooled
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here is going to be exhausted out the back of the case much like the 680
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NVIDIA has redesigned things somewhat in order to give you more dead space
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between the io Shield as and the heat sink itself so that just gives you
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slightly better air flow out the back of the card and just as like a quick length
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comparison it's just a little shorter than a GTX 680 although if you had a
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smaller heat sink on it your your water cool it or something I bet you could fit this in a very
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very small case without any difficulty whatsoever which is really
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cool I think that pretty much wraps it up so what is it it's a cheaper slightly
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less powerful although overclockable to the point where you could get similar
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performance to a 680 card it's starting to look like pretty darn good value
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the MSI GTX 670 OC 2 gig graphics
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