EVGA NVIDIA GTX 570 HD Display Port Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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all right today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an EVGA video card that
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is unique so first I'm going to tell you all of the things that are not unique
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what's not unique is that this is a GeForce card EVGA is a GeForce exclusive
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vendor what's not unique is that this is a 1.28 gab gddr5 card just like every
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other GTX 570 Under the Sun it is also
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not unique that it is a GTX 570 it is not unique that it supports 3D Vision
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surround in SLI mode which is also not unique direct X11 and fizx are not
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unique features and neither is the fact
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that it supports HD resolutions
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but these two letters right here indicate what is unique about this card
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I'm not going to spoil the surprise though even though I I just foreshadowed
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it if you guys were paying very very close attention you would have noticed
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what exactly I just did foreshadow that
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is unique about it so first of all let's take off the
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packaging because that is what I do on this channel I open up all the sexy
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computer products so that you guys can see them okay so let's talk about what's
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special about EVGA what's special about EVGA is a couple things warranty EVGA
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has one of the most reputable warranties in the graphics card Biz everyone knows
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this now bear in mind that uh the warranties do vary based on the part
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number so I don't believe this one has a life time warranty but some products do
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okay this is a KR suffix product you can see that right there so um yeah I'm not
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sure what the warranty is on this card but you can always look it up find out
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what KR means by going on their site EVGA has 247 support u a bunch of stuff
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over here most of this is not particularly unique and they've got
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their Precision Tool which is awesome based on uh if you believe it's based on
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Rivet tuner
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okay and I believe it also actually works on non EVGA cards as well uh don't
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forget they have their tradein program so if something new comes out and uh you
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don't like it anymore and you're still within a I forget how many days it is
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wow I'm terrible right now sorry guys but anyway they have a tradein program
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as well which is awesome and pretty unique but that's not the thing that's
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so special about this card okay here we have a driver disc and a case badge
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so don't use that download the latest from the NVIDIA
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website okay we have a quick start guide for a GTX 580 and 57 probably shows us
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how to plug in power connectors and how to install a PCIe graphics card very
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nice here we have a
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poster okay okay it has a skull on it EVGA
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gaming makes you die visit the
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website doesn't make you die it makes other people die
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I think that's what they mean all right
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foam uh please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2 minutes after
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operation before removing it from your system okay
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EVGA uh here we've got a dual MOX to
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single PCIe six pin
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adapter here we have another WAN Show
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you that again here we have a DVI to VGA
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adapter and here we have the card itself
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I'm going to go ahead and pull that their sticker off
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and then I'm going to pull out the card
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and I am finally going to tell you guys
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what is unique about this graphics card
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so the first thing I'll actually notice about it is that this does not appear to
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be a reference card this looks a lot
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closer to a GTX 560 in terms of the cooler design uh a few heat pipes down
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there it's got a flower style cooler like the Intel stock heat sink you can
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see that there when I spin the fan okay now it appears that we are not using an
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entirely external exhaust system here so you can see the vrms are cooled by black
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heat sinks and they're going to get some incidental air flow from that their fan
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all right we've got two PCI E6 pin connectors so this is clearly not a
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reference PCB because uh normally on the GTX 570 reference cards the PCIe uh
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Power connectors are up here we do have full support for three-way SLI because
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we do have two SLI Bridges up here but
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even the custom cooler and custom PCB are not what is unique about this card
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what is so unique is this I'm going to give it away now DisplayPort so this
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card supports DVI HDMI and DisplayPort
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outputs Isn't that cool so here on the
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back you can see where the GPU is you can see where all the RAM chips are
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installed and and you can see that it uses a PCIe
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16x connector to install into your
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motherboard and that took a fair amount of Googling around to find the answer
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but uh the inevitable question if we've added DisplayPort how many displays can
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we output at one time the answer is still two so you can either use dual DVI
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DVI HDMI DVI DisplayPort HDMI display
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port but not all four and not even three of them at the the same time so there
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you go and I think that is pretty much everything I wanted to say about the GTX
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570 HD thank you for watching lus Tech
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tips and don't forget to subscribe