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this is the GeForce GTX 580 matrix Platinum Republicans gamers graphics card it comes in a huge box and it is a very special video card so uses the GTX 580 GPU it has 1.5 gigs of memory it is clocked pretty high and stuff it's got a memory interface it's got maximum digital resolution of 2560 by 1600 ok it has DisplayPort out which is kind of cool and a minimum of 700 watt system power supplies are recommended for the use of this card and you will see why once I get it opened up because it's all big and impressive and consumes lots of power but it consumes lots of power because it's powerful so it is designed for overclocking enthusiasts following the success of the extreme tweet Tweaker features had a soos ice created the new tweak it to give users flexible overclocking control even when running benchmark program so yes you can add just the frequency of this card with onboard buttons pretty crazy am i right real-time hardware loading monitoring with the LEDs over here so blue is light loading green is safe mode pink is heavy loading blue is medium loading and red is extreme loading so that actually doesn't seem to be here maybe that's somewhere else I guess well we'll check that out we'll check that out ok GPU tweak is there utility for overclocking it uses direct cu2 technology for the cooler and it has 19 phase super allen 19 phases ok it has 19 phase super alloy power for the PWM on this card let's go ahead and get it opened up Wow we've actually got an accessory box as well as a box with compartments um so because this is a GTX 580 card what that means is we do have support for all of your videos technologies including 3d vision 3d vision surround if you run an SLI we do all we have support for sli up to three way or even four way if you have a motherboard that supports it you've got support for cuda physx all of that good stuff this is a great sticker check out this sticker it's all shiny and red and black looks outstanding GTX 580 driver and menu will get rid of it download the latest off the Nvidia website you can just download a regular GTX 580 driver there's no need for a special driver here's a quick set-up guide we've also got a couple of dual six pin to eight pin PCIe power adapters and we've got an SLI bridge included hey that's thoughtful okay it's a longer SLI bridge we've got a DVI to VGA adapter although honestly guys if you're using a VGA monitor with my graphics card of this caliber and I would recommend a monitor upgrade instead of buying a graphics card of this caliber oh man this thing's for donkey let's look at this oh so that's where your real-time loading indicator is and that's that's a cool feature so it actually glows a different color depending on how much load the graphics card is under very cool yeah sure let's start with the power connector so we have dual eight pin PCIe power connectors that are required to power this board we've also got a full cover back plate on the back of the board actually here now check that out that looks really sharp so you can see that it's actually I can't tell if it's making contact with anything over there looks like it's not okay so this is mostly for looks in all likelihood but it's got ventilation holes here it's and it looks really sharp so this text is going to be right side up when it is installed in your case so you'll be able to read a soos matrix GTX 580 just fine okay here we've got our two sli connectors so that means that we do have support for multi Way SLI configurations not just two graphics cards this is a standard PCIe to 16x interface so this is not an SLI on a card it doesn't require any kind of special connector the only thing you really have to worry about is the power so like I said - eight pins alright on the back oh this is interesting it's got a safe mode button I guess that's for safe mode okay we have DisplayPort HDMI dual DVI outputs that are covered by little blue covers by default and they are capable of VGA as well everything is very helpfully labeled not only on the card itself but also on the plastic piece here I don't know if you can read that but it says DVI ok and it's gonna be hard for us to take a good look at the custom PCB that went into this but um when we look at the custom cooler first so we have dual 90 millimeter pwm fans here so these are full thickness fans these are not your slim fans that you typically see on these dual card our dual dual fan coolers so they're gonna have some real static pressure behind them those are big fat heat pipes in there too I want you to kind of try and see down there can you see the heat pipes yeah there we go so those are really fat heat pipes let me see how many are going to each side of the cooler so it looks like we've got a total of one two three four five yeah it looks like correct me if I'm wrong here guys but it looks like we've got five heat pipes two of which are going to this side yeah you can see the heat pipes running through here one weight our third one's going out the other side no yeah okay yeah you can see the termination so there's two coming out of here remember this side also has direct heat transfer as well because the GPU itself is right down there okay and then this one has three heat pipes going through it so that's carrying heat away from the GPU and then out to this side where it will be taken away by this fan now this fan also blows down directly onto this heatsink that is going to be cooling the PWM it looks like the RAM chips do not have heat sinks on them but they're going to be actively cooled by this fan which can actually be better for RAM chips in some scenarios now this is a fully custom PCB as I mentioned before so let's start showing you some of those features obviously this beefy PWM heatsink is covering a beefy PWM which is completely custom for this card you don't have to worry about it blowing up pretty much no matter how much voltage or how much cooling and then how much more voltage you throw at it so hopefully you can see down there reasonably well okay next we have the buttons here so you can turn your fan to 100% let the push of a button that's kind of a cool feature because if you're like okay I'm gonna you know benchmark boom just turn your fan on all the way then you don't have to worry about it ramping up hotter and then catching itself to bring itself back down so you can keep it as cool as possible you can turn the speeds up and down you've got this little indicator set of LEDs here and then finally you've got aha voltage check points so for GPU memory volt three 3v3 twelve volt and ground you have all of those on there let's see how these fans are hooked up by it okay so this must be to do with this and it looks like the fans are hooked up through this custom connector right here yeah that would be my that would be my guess so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the GTX 580 matrix don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from on boxing's reviews and other computer videos and oh yeah last thing this is a triple slot card so if you are going to try to run two of these in sli make sure you have a card that has very very wide spacing for the PCIe 16x slot so the really one of these cards should be providing most of the power you would need for a lot of the games out there these days oh look at this I've never seen anything this crazy before okay they've actually got labeled solder points for you to do volt mods on this thing you got to be kidding me so you can disable the OCP that is the overcurrent protection I'm not sure what these other markings being power PWM you can change the PWM frequency so you can put a variable resistor on there and change that sup no way you can't build that into a video card that's crazy so this thing is designed from the ground up for subzero that is amazing actually cool okay