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now this is something I've been wanting to unbox for a little while this is the gtx 560 TI direct see you too so basically this is an aftermarket cooled gtx 560 and once we open this up i'm actually going to find out if it is also a non reference PCB gtx 560 so the only way to find that out is to open the box which i'm a big fan of doing so the dual fan design is evidently up to 20 degrees cooler it uses direct GPU contact in order to ensure that it gets well direct contact with the GPU for the heat pipes for better cooling performance it also has super alloy power which blends select elements under a sous exclusive formula resulting in a 15% performance increase 2.5 times longer product lifespan and 35 degrees 35 degree cooler operation that's quite a bold claim voltage tweak technology allows you to boost the GPU voltages via a sous smart doctor to achieve up to 50% faster clock speed over clocking capability may be varied by different cards of platformers fruitfully news reports which you percent pastor okay ah something about the card general technologies yes this is a geforce card so it does support cuda sli 3d vision it supports even 3d vision surround when you are in sli mode it is a 1 gig card so it has a standard configuration as far as memory is concerned and we're gonna go ahead and get this opened up ooh nice box look at that matte black box with nice gold font on it I like it I've come to appreciate fine boxes oh it gets even nicer when we get inside look at that you know how expensive it is to bake a box of black on both sides you guys have no idea compared to just like a white box or just a plain cardboard box it's much more expensive so yeah as soon as really put everything into the packaging of this product nice to see them care you know you can see the card itself is well protected by nice closed cell foam here ok what do we got here we got video drivers ok gamer OSD smart doctor ok so some asou software download the latest from the isuzu website instead ed okay here we've also got a quick set-up guide look at that in color I'm impressed again very impressed color setup guide here you've got our accessory department so that's its own little box that's are going after raiser at this point I look like amazing razors pretty good pretty good packaging so here's kind of a neat thing this is a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter you can see it's actually twist it at a right angle so that plugging an HDMI cable in won't interfere with plugging something into the next over DVI port here we've got a DVI to VGA adapter and to dual doable X to single PCI and six pin power adapters finally we have the card itself which does not come in an anti-static bag so I'm going to go ahead and assume but this is anti-static phone this is a very nice-looking part I'll tell you guys that right off the bat here cuz it has my favorite thing in the world well my favorite thing in the world but I really like it matte black PCB Bravo a sous matte black PCB love it especially with some of the new motherboards out there on the p67 platform featuring matte black PCBs this would go with it just nicely you can also see they've got tastefully accented colors to go with their matte black so there's a little bit of oh okay please don't do that cats trying to steal the phone he loves foamy such a brat no no there okay so they've got tastefully accented colors to go along with the matte black so you can see the aluminum heatsink here that is part of the direct see you cooler right there you can see where the heat pipe goes and if I can get exactly the right angle here you might be able to see where the GPU is down there there that's the GPU that you can see through the crack there okay and then they've got a couple of suits logos which are also nice like silver one of them is a little bit askew but we can fix that quite easily there we go we've got dual 6 pin PCI II power connectors required to run this board and we've also got a single sli connector here at the top of the PCB so what that means is that you have support for two-way SLI but not three way and not four way okay duel fans these both look like eighty millimeter fans and this is a kind of a unique layout okay so you can see this is oh this is kind of neat it's like kind of a hybrid design so this is a heatsink okay this is a heatsink with a fan and then what a soos has also done so that directly cools the GPU there's actually slots in the heatsink or here here and here where it looks like I'm just going to look for them yeah it looks like that's to give direct ventilation here I'm going to try and get a little bit more light for you guys here to the memory chips see the memory chips in there so that gives you direct airflow over the memory chips instead of relying on heat sinks to cool them which can often just insulate them more than anything else see more memory chips here which are also have direct exposure to airflow very clever little design choice to make and then what you can see they've done is they've actually put those direct touch heat pipes down there right over the GPU and then made a little fin arrangement so this is it's a heatsink but it's also a heat pipe cooler so that means that both of these fans are able to be effective at cooling that GPU over there without a soos actually having to use so many heat pipes to spread out the heat load because they're using a direct heat sink and the heat pipe cooler so that's pretty neat so this is the direct to you tube cooler we've got some little red accents that look quite nice we've got a PCI Express 16x interface down here at the bottom with a standard lock so I did answer my own question when I saw that it was a matte black PCB because in video reference cards you don't use a matte black PCB I don't see what else we got here there's a little dedicated heatsink here you can see it right there for the MOSFETs that is for the voltage delivery so that's on that side and you can kind of see it from the top there as well it's that one right there and let's see what else we got this is a nice metal shroud too they're using a metal shroud for the cooler so what that means is that it's not cheap it's not plastic very very nice and what's this this seems to be just a plate for making the card more rigid which is smart so you can see that this is bolted into the PCB here in here and it's also bolted into the i/o shield here so that's going to give your card instead of just being held in by the PCI Express slot and the two screws here it's going to give it a little bit more rigidity so it'll actually sit flat I've had many a card installed in my system that kind of looks like this when it's installed because of the weight of the cooler okay let's have a look at the back of the card you can see that the directs you to even though it has a slot here he's not going to be doing non focus focus focus you stupid thing it's not going to be doing a whole lot of exhaust out of this vent because the fan is actually like way over here and there's no direct airflow path from the fan to the vent so this is mostly going to exhaust the air inside your case so you do have to make a trade off you got to decide what's more important to me do I want lower GPU temps over also more overclocking on my GPU or do I want lower case temps now remember you can combat the internal exhaust just by having a well ventilated case versus having an external exhaust design for your card like say for example the GTX 580 reference card that's over there where it exhausts all of the air outside of the case and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about the GTX 560 Direct see you - there's our DVI ports there's our mini HDMI port thank you for checking out my unboxing of this card and I will do a follow-up comparing it in terms of temperatures against the reference design gtx 560 TI that I also have oh I didn't even mention yes this is a factory overclocked card so it comes clocked at eight hundred and thirty megahertz on the core don't forget to subscribe guys