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today we will be doing an unboxing of the GeForce GTX 460 to win or twin from EVGA this is something I've received numerous requests to take a look at and to evaluate the performance of so I'm going to be doing one of those things today and I will be taking a look at it I will not be evaluating the performance because I can tell you guys right now before I've even opened the box how it will perform and I think the performance should be fairly evident based on the name of the product in this case so what this is is it is a custom PCB product from EVGA who is if you are to believe what it says on the side of their box and I do the number one seller in the u.s. of Nvidia based products number one and reliability and service of graphics cards something-something footnote number one performance leader in 3d mark 11 and the number one folding at home team in the world let's open this baby up see what we get in terms of accessories so the first thing we have is a graphics card user guide the next thing we find is a driver CD with a sticker so you can use the sticker but throw away the driver CD download the latest drivers from Nvidia calm this is a sticker it appears to be a bumper sticker that's kind of sweet throw that on your car why not right alright next we have a mini HDMI to HDMI cable and that's a nice long cable so you don't have to worry about any clearance issues when you're plugging in the full size HDMI cable we've got two dual six pin two single eight pin PCIe power connectors as well as a DVI to VGA adapter the next thing we find is the tool or a twin card itself which has a custom cooler custom PCB this is just about as customer card as you can hope to encounter so let's open this up and let's talk about performance there for a little bit so performance the GeForce GTX 460 twin well the performance will be exactly the performance of two GTX 460 s in SLI or with pretty much within margin of error of such a solution because this is a dual GPU graphics card so on this fully custom PCB you can see we have three eighty millimeter fans and those are all blowing into a fairly custom heat pipe cooler so you can see each of the GPUs has three heat pipes so on this top one you can see three heat pipes coming out this way this way and this way this middle one is actually only cooling heat valve will be carrying away heat that is brought to it from the heat pipes from the other GPUs as well as blowing down onto the PCB to cool any other incidental components and then here the other GPU has three heat pipes coming out of it this way so carrying heat away from those GTX 460 GPUs or gf1 tens I believe they are alright so this is not restrictive at all so these fans are going to have full access to the airflow they need to blow air onto the heat pipes and fins here this is a really cool thing about this card because it is an SLI on a card card we actually have full support for three displays out in 3d vision surround so one of these sets of displays is running off one of the cards the other two displays are running off of the other card or chip or whatever you want to call it so we have full support for technology that is typically only possible with nvidia sli so here we see a little bit of the overall design of the card so you can see where the GPUs are situated you can see this is 512 Meg's of RAM so the other 512 Meg's is you know likelihood and I'm just gonna double check that before I go ahead and confirm it yep it is on the other side of the PCB here is all of our power delivery circuitry which is incidentally powered by the two 8 pin PCIe connectors on the top of the card here's where the other GPU is as well as the around it and the rest of the room is on the other side you can see here that we are using a PCIe 16x interface to communicate with the computer and up here we've actually got an SLI bridge finger this doesn't work because the of the limitations of the GAF 110 GPU itself it is not capable of four-way SLI it is only capable of 2-way SLI which we are already running because we're running a salon a card so we can't use this that is just an error shouldn't be there okay here we've got two 8-pin PCIe power connectors which I mentioned before they are situated in their ideal locations on the top of the board because if you extended this board any longer then it might not fit into some cases we've got an EVGA logo up here at the top which matches the color scheme of the rest of the card which looks really sharp I might add and then other than that let's move around to the back of the card and have a look at what's there not a whole lot okay let's look at the bottom of the card not a whole lot nice brushed finish to the cooler though it looks really really sharp and I just want to do a quick size comparison for you guys I'm just gonna run and grab GTX let's see let's get it let's get an EVGA GTX 580 and that's all I really have on me right now I think oh no hold on I have here I have a Radeon 6990 so why don't we compare the size really quickly to these other cards so remember the GTX 460 because it's such a good value GPU as soon as you put it in sli it actually outperforms a GTX 580 even though the twin is a less expensive solution than a GTX 580 power consumption is also excellent on the GTX 460 so that is that's what makes this card such a compelling solution that's why EVGA went out of their way to produce a custom card just for GTX 460 sli so here's the length compared to the Radeon 6990 you can see it is a touch shorter about 1/2 now about us centimeter and a bit shorter and requires the same number of PCIe 8-pin connectors although I can guarantee you this dual GTX 460 card consumes far less power than the 6990 thank you for checking out my unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 twin don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos