EVGA GeForce GTX 590 Classified Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,287 words · ~6 min read
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this is truly a magnificent box this is
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the box for the EVGA classified special
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edition gForce GTX
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590 and I know I already unboxed a 590
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but I had I saw this box in the back and
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actually actually it didn't come in this one just keep the camera pointed that way I'll bring it over I'll bring it
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over I saw it in the warehouse and it was literally in this
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box and I was like oh is that a is that
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a m carton of video cards maybe there's
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like four inside and the warehouse guy is like no that's one video card I was
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like are you sure and he's like yeah and I'm like okay cuz I didn't believe him
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so I opened it and sure enough it was one video card so let's unveil it
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here so the first thing we find inside is an EVGA t-shirt made by Hanes so it's
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not even like your cheap t-shirt that's a t egas haes t-shirt let's go ahead and
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open that up there oh nice heavy cotton on that too and what's the size the size
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is XL well that figures it's a little big on me but uh you know I guess they
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figure your typical GTX 590 Gamers probably an XL ooh this is nice that's a
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really nice mouse pad actually look at that limited edition it's a it's a hard
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gaming surface got a little bit of flex to it got a nice rubber back so it's not
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going to slip anywhere that's very nice actually nice touch next we
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have one of those EVGA gaming posters
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with the skull on
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it okay and we got some more foam here oh
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just foam look at that see just foam okay and we'll take out another piece of
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foam pretty nice piece of foam for what it's worth nice uh you know gray foam oh
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oh there's two cards oh no there's not two cards oh okay I guess you can buy a
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kit with two cards well this is just the one card kit so we get a nice piece of
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foam as well as a card okay so let's look at the accessories first we have
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two six pins and one eight pin or rather two six pins to one eight
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pin we've got two of those so if you have an SLI ready power supply that's
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older and only has four six pin power uh six pin PCIe connectors and you will
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still be able to connect the classified to eight pins we've got a mini display
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port to fullsize DisplayPort
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adapter we have a DVI to VGA uh to HDMI
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adapter as well as a DVI to VGA adapter
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and for crying out loud please don't use VGA on this on this uh card okay
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attention please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2 minutes after
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operation okay before removing it from your system and here we have it this is
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the GTX 590 classified limited
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edition graphics card you know what this
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is actually a little bit different from the reference one I'll have to you know
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what let me go get my reference card I'll be back in a minute and I'll show you guys so two things okay first of all
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evga's back plate is clearly going to do a better job of cooling the memory than
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the stock two-piece back plate because it is a single piece and so it just
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plain has more surface area there's no rocket science to it here okay second of
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all EVGA seems to be one of the only graphics card companies that has figured
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out which way people install graphics cards in their computers so they install
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them like this which means that all of this text is now right side up for you
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to read when it's installed in your system very nice very nice touch EVGA so
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let's go ahead and turn it over and compare the other side to our reference
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card which I think is going to be quite
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similar yeah okay so now it looks pretty much the same so now I'm going to take
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my reference card away and we are going to focus on the evj classified
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so this is a 3 gig graphics card it
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features two GF 110 cores so that is two
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full-fledged gpus that are the same as the one that is used in the NVIDIA GTX
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580 okay now they are running on an
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internal SLI configuration which means
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that that you don't get quite the full performance of two of those chips but
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you do get the excellent SLI scaling in many titles as well as support for all
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of NVIDIA's key Technologies such as Cuda physx uh obviously SLI because it's
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internal but also quad SLI you can actually run two of these bad boys in
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the same system for even more graphics performance 3D Vision as well as 3D
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Vision surround so uh let's let's go on
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a quick tour of the card so here is our SLI finger up here at the top here is
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some more text that is right side up when the card is actually installed in
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your system here is that little lit GeForce
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logo so that actually lights up with LEDs and it is functional if there's any
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kind of problem with your card like if you don't have the right power
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connectors uh connected then it'll actually flash so you can you can tell
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that there's some kind of a problem instead of uh I remember the first time I fired up a GTX uh or rather an 8800
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GTX uh it squealed at me like a pig and
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I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on but it turned out one of my PCIe adapters wasn't plugged in right
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and that was the issue so there's our 80 mm fan cooling the unisync that you can
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clearly see down there and then inside the card you can see there's uh one
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Vapor chamber and two I don't know if
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you can see that one two Vapor Chambers with fins okay here on the bottom you
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see our standard PCIe 16x interface here
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at the back of the card you can see some ventilation so that's uh going to be
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kicking air out towards the front of your C and then here on the front of the card
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you see some more ventilation as well as one of the coolest features about this
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card so the two GTX 580 well remember
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they're not equivalent because it's the same GPU has all the same functional
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units but it's clocked a little bit lower in order to get the power under
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control for a dual GPU card but it has two gpus on it which means you can
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actually drive four displays off of the single card you can run three displays
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on DVI for NVIDIA 3D Vision surround off
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of a single card Isn't that
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cool I think that's pretty much it so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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