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everyone we're here still in in Taiwan at this point with the GTX 1660 and during our trip the embargo for this card will have list lifted so we'll hopefully have a full review but in addition to that we've got a tear down of the first model we've seen which is the EVGA gtx 1660 XC and this card should be pretty straightforward so I guess we'll just start with the disassembly before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte ARS ad 27 QD gaming monitor the ad 27 qt is a 27-inch 1440p gaming display with 95% of dcpip three color saturation for high color accuracy accompanied by a one millisecond response time 10 bit IPS panel and display HDR visa certification additional features include fluid adjustment and slide RGB LEDs for personal Flair and firmware features like cooldown counters at reticles and adaptive a noise reduction learn more at the link below typically on these you can just pull the heatsink off separately without even going through the smaller screws on the back of the card but we'll see if those need to come out for this one it just depends on if there these are often just connected to the base plate and then the cooler itself might separate but let's just try it first to see if this can go easily I think we might need to disconnect the rest of those so let's go take out the smaller screws on the outside so this card at the time of filming this video I actually have no idea how well it performs but by the time the video goes up we should have a review live in theory which will have full benchmarks versus the ti and whatever relevant AMD cards are in the price point so this card will be $250 and the reference card will be 220 and then as far as a PCB this should be a reference PCB with some slight changes like the PCB length or size then we need to get into the rest to see details so this screw is just held in with a nut on each side it's gonna need a 5 mil hex for the DVI alright there's our IO plate and IO this should all separate I think all right so there's the cooler this is actually really similar to the 1660 Ti in some ways the same cold plate where it's got this sort of juts out at the edges same koble as a 1660 ti we took apart still three heat pipes that look like they are ten millimeter heat pipes right through the center where the GPU goes and let's let's clean up the GPU a bit and see what the labeling looks like tu 116 - 300 - a1 so just like with the tents or the 20 60 and downward anybody has gotten rid of that second demarcation after the 300 and some of the cards you'll see like a 300 a - a 1 the the a1 at the end here is just a revision number but 300 a would have been used for some of the higher end cards and they've gotten rid of that where there's a split between the GPU spec for the high-end GPUs that have been a bit higher many factions can pay more so that's been gotten rid of for the lower end cards and what we're looking at is just the base plate and we can peel that off at this point it's held on just by thermal pads and by it looks like maybe nope just thermal pads holding that in the cooler expose the rest of the PCB so there's the base plate this you know it's got micron memory on it although that may may vary and I think we have some vrm specs as well but let me get the rest of these thermal pads off just so we can show it so there's your memory if you are on up there at the top and then for the vrm specs so it's a six phase they're using 50 amp power stage asleep there's NV VDD uses a UPI u p9 v 1 - R an NCP 3 0 to 155 which if I don't know if we'll have build Zoid look at these but if we do he'll talk about those in more depth and then for I guess we can talk about shrunk resistors because we always do just to show if you wanted to short them for some reason it looks like there's just the one up here then there should be one for PCIe connector as well this is a very nice one if you wanted to sort it although it's probably not really worth it on these low-end cards yes so that that shunt resistor is going to go to the PCIe cable thank you and then for the rest we'll talk about other vrm specs if we do any builds raid videos we can cover it there but let us know in the comments if you want one these low-end cards sometimes we cover them sometimes it's not really worth it because you start getting into territory where a lot of people just genuinely don't care about the vrm quality if they're just looking for more budget focused cards but let us know if you're interested and otherwise check the review for full details again at time of filming I have no idea what my opinion is on the 1660 as a GPU but we'll talk about it in the review so thanks for watching as always subscribe for more and I'll see you all next time