EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti DS Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I have an unboxing for you guys this is part of evga's DS series of
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cards that is not to say that it is like the Nintendo DS in that it's neat but
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underpowered that is to say that it is I
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actually don't know what it stands for but all their DS cards have this really
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cool uh heat sink design so maybe it has something to do with that I don't know
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dual slot mind you all the heat sinks are dual slot these days pretty much uh
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dual dual fan would be DF maybe someone
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can post uh in the comments under this video what exactly the DS thing in the
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name stands for so this is basically a GTX 560 TI with an aftermarket cooler
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made by EVGA who is proud to Proclaim
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themselves to be number one seller of us
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of NVIDIA based products in the US the number one in reliability and service
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the number one in performance and the number one folding at home team although
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I don't think I should talk too much about the folding at home team because NC has its own folding at home team
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which is pretty good as well so they've got 24/7 support as well as evga's
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coveted warranty service all right key
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features include direct X11 we've come to expect that at this point all the
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usual NVIDIA stuff including two-way SLI
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Cuda uh physx 3D Vision as well as 3D
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Vision surround if you grab two of them and run them in SLI mode you can use
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evga's utilities including precision as well as their OC Scanner and let's flip
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it around this is a super clocked card which means it's not um the highest
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priced highest performing it's not the second highest pric second highest
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performing but it's the Step Up from the
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stock clock cards that are also available so we've got one of those EVGA
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uh skull dude posters which I often have a really hard time getting unfolded for
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some reason let's see if this one's any easier hey there we go all right so I'm
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just going to step back show you guys that so something about EVGA gaming
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there you go uvj gaming and then a skull
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dude okay so let's go ahead and put that
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away for now uh if I can figure out how to do
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it usually the putting away part is even
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harder there we are and without ruining it excellent
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okay next we have a graphics card user guide uh at this point you should
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probably pretty much know how to use a graphics card you plug it into the slot
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you install the drivers but not off the disc off the manufacturer website as
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well as a quick start guide in case you want to get started quickly rather than
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slowly highly recommended that getting started quickly rather than slowly
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because then your new hardware is in your system and ready to go more quick
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all right we have um don't touch your card for 2 minutes after it's been on we
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have a mini HDMI to HDMI cable this is a
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great inclusion because it allows you to not have to deal with any clearance
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issues with those adapters if you have a DVI cable plugged into the next slot
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over we have dual Molex to single six
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pin PCIe adapter as well as another one
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and finally a DVI to VGA adapter
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finally we have the card itself coming
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out of the wrapper this is an unwrapping video today not an unboxing I mean we
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unboxed it too but we're also going to unwrapper it it's unboxing and
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unwrapping video there it is if that's not a slick looking card I don't know
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what it is I think my white balance is a little bit off cuz looking at the LCD in
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my camera this uh Green Stripe looks pretty yellow but in real life it's
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actually ah there we go if I sh there that's about what it looks like so it's
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an NVIDIA Green Stripe that looks very sharp it's a nice little Accent on an
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otherwise almost completely Black Card
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okay we got white DVI ports too but I guess we'll we'll let it slide in a
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couple stickers all right so let's start with uh let's start with the top today
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so we've got EVGA GTX 560 TI the text is
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in the correct orientation such that when you actually install it in your
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case you will actually be able to read it on the top we also find a single SLI
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connector so that means two-way SLI but not three-way or four-way SLI remember
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those modes are not supported by the GTX
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560ti GPU next on the back we have not a
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whole lot to speak of although maybe what I'll do is I'll
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find out for you guys whether this is a reference PCB or whether this is a
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custom PCB why don't we go find another 560
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TI H there's a HW
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is that a 560 TI yes it is okay so I'm in the Tech's
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room trying to find out if this is a reference card or a non-reference card
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so far it looks like a reference card all right let's compare the PCB
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layouts here guys that's looking pretty
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darn reference to me at this point now remember too just because a manufacturer
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is using a reference design
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PCB that does not necessarily mean that
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they are using all reference components on it so they could be using higher
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quality capacitors or chokes or whatever the case may be uh EVGA is renowned for
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their quality so who knows what's actually on here but it does use a
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reference PCB next we have an open slot at the back so some air flow is going to
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be kicked out into your case by the DS cooler here we've also got two PCI six
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pin PCIe six pin power
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connectors although it's not a particularly power hungry card at the
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bottom we have a PCI Express 16x
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connector and we see a couple of big old
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fat heat pipes so there there are two heat pipes um no three three heat pipes
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yes there you can see the third one in there now right so you got three heat
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pipes covering the GPU which you can also see right down there see the GPU
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itself and so those are going to be spreading the heat out to the aluminum
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fins which you can see all under the Dual 80 mm F here
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and that is what will do the cooling for
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your system you can also see that the vrms are going to get direct air flow
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from this fan right here so you don't have to worry about those overheating at
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all as well that's one of the things that is superior about a downdraft uh
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cooler design now one of the disadvantages is that although we do on
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the back have an open PCI slot for exhaust most of the air is not going to
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come out of that slot most of it is going to be exhausted here here here
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not it here well yeah some here um and then some of it will go out the back but
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you want to make sure you have decent Cooling in your case before you install
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a card that does not uh exhaust everything externally on the back dual
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DVI mini HDMI and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking
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out my unboxing of the GeForce GTX 560
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