EVGA GeForce GTX 580 DS Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,526 words · ~7 min read
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so today we'll be unboxing the EVGA GTX 580 DS now that is not to say dual
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screen because all GTX 580s support two
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monitors that is their custom version
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which includes a dual fan cooler that looks pretty sweet it's actually very
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similar to the dual fan cooler that is on the GTX 46 T win or twin uh that dual
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460 card so this is a super clocked card which is good super super clocked is
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better and for the win is best for the win is usually quite expensive so a
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super clocked or super super clocked card often presents a very good value
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actually you know what I'm going to go ahead and uh here stay there yeah thank
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you crazy Russian is helping me today he doesn't have quite the uh camera
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expertise that the cameraman does so I have to I have to help him you know
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position himself correctly okay let's see what else they have to say for
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themselves about this particular product so EVGA
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warranty for more terms of this so this is an AR product which means it
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qualifies for lifetime warranty if you registered on the EVGA website EVGA
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Precision is obviously compatible with this card that's an overclocking utility
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they also have an OC Scanner utility that you can use with this card uh what
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else do we have and EVGA 24/7 tech support so whether it's night or day you
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can call up EVGA at any time time and get help with your card and let's see
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what else they have to say for themselves on the side of the Box they are another number one seller of NVIDIA
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based products in the US number one in reliability and service of graphics
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cards Asterix something something something okay number one performance
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leader in 3D Mark 11 Aster something something something and folding at home
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team number one folding at home team in the world something something something
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asteris Aster asteris so they are qualifying their statements you will or
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rather they are backing up their statements you can give them that that
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is for sure all right so the the first thing we find in the box is a pretty win
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poster that has a big old skull guy on
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it there we are oh hold
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on if I can actually get the poster to
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come on unfold there we are so we have a skull guy
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here okay the next thing we find inside
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is a graphics card user guide which will show you how to plug the power into your
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graphics card how to plug in your graphics card all that good stuff a
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quick start guide similar all right GTX
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580 so shows you how to plug in the 8 Pin and six pin power connector it also
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tells you please allow your graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2 minutes
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after turning off your PC before touching it powered by EVGA sticker EVGA
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disc which you shouldn't use you should download all the latest uh tools and
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utilities off the EVGA website and the latest drivers off the NVIDIA website
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next we have a mini HDMI to HDMI C C
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this is better than an adapter because it means that the HDMI like if you have
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an adapter it means that the HDMI cable can get in the way of the next over DVI
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slot so this is a very nice addition we
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also have a DVI to VGA adapter please
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please don't use that get a better Monitor and two or rather one dual Molex
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to six pin PCIe and one dual six pin
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PCIe to 8 Pin
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PCIe finally the card itself so let's
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flip that over and make ourselves a little
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uh spot to put it caution only open at a static free
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workstation all right so there is the
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GTX 580 DS so it has dual 80 mm fans and
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I can't tell if these are pwm controlled fans although I would assume that they
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are yes they are pwm controlled fans they have a huge gap in the Shroud you
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can see that there's almost no restriction to the airflow that is
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available to these fans so you don't have to worry about even if you install
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a card in the next over slot you can see that the uh curvature of the cover makes
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sure that even if something is right up against it you're going to have a lot of
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room for those fans to draw an air that's a very smart design choice that
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EVGA has made the top of the card looks really slick and it looks like this
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actually lights up would be my guess uh
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let me just see if I can see any power going to it anywhere okay I can't so
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that's still a guess yes I can there there's power so that lights up Blue by
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the look of things which is going to look just sweet in your case like that
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all right it's got your standard six pin and 8pin PCIe connectors up here in the
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top as well as support for up to four-way SLI with dual s connectors at
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the top of the card moving around to the back of the card you see absolutely
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nothing interesting on the bottom of the card you see exhaust vents so what that
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means is that this is not an external exhaust card it's going to kick a little
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bit of heat out the back of the card you can see there's a nice open back plate
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there but most of the heat is going to be on the inside so what that means is
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that well suck it up princess make sure
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you have a case that has decent cooling on the inside um because if you have a
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really stuffy case it's not going to kick all the heat out what they're doing
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is they're compromising the overall internal case temperatures and they're
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counting on anyone who buys a GTX 580 to have a good gaming case with decent fans
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and they are sa in order to get better performance on cooling the GPU itself
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which will give you better overclocking and a more stable longer lasting card
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okay so the top as well actually has those vents I didn't really mention that
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before uh the design of the cooler is very interesting so it has five heat
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pipes you can actually see the heat pipes down here so those heat pipes
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actually run across the GPU core so the GPU core is right here all right so they
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run across the GPU core carrying heat out to a separate heat sink that blows
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air directly down onto the pwm which doesn't have dedicated heat sinks on it
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although it is hold on is connected or isn't connected I
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can't quite tell and I can't get uh I can't get in there to see hold on give
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me a sec so it looks like it's making contact with this part of the heat sink
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but really this the the biggest use of this is to cool the pwm uh all any other
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components over here as well as driving heat away from the GPU with those heat
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pipes so that's awesome on the back we find the usual dual DVI and One Mini
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HDMI that we find on all GTX 580s and as usual this is a PCIe 2.0 16x card so
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well PCI 2.1 or something like that I think but that doesn't really make much
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difference one way or the other so one thing I want to do really quickly is I want to find out if this is a custom PCB
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and it would appear that it is not it looks like a standard PCB so what EVGA
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has customized about this card is they have customized the cooler so they're
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giving you their DS sweet looking cooler
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looks great actually all right they are
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customizing the clock speed so they have turned the clock speeds up a little bit
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versus a standard card and they are obviously providing their service and
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their warranty which you don't get if you don't buy an eeve G card here's
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something funny though look at this there's a few more components right here
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versus some missing ones here
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interesting sometimes you see slight changes um over the life cycle of a
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product this is actually a very old GTX um 580 the one right here this is a
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launch 580 from EVGA so this is how the product has evolved since it originally
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was released so thank you for checking
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