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so today we'll be unboxing the EVGA GTX 580 D s now that is not to say dual screen because all GTX 580 s support two monitors that is their custom version which includes a dual fan cooler that looks pretty sweet it's actually very similar to the dual fan cooler that is on the GTX 460 to win or twin that dual 460 card so this is a super clock card which is good super super clocked is better and for the win is best for the win is usually quite expensive so a super clocked or super super clock card often prevents a very good value actually no one go ahead and here stayed there yeah thank you crazy Russian is helping me today he doesn't have quite the camera expertise that the cameraman does so I have to I have to help him position himself correctly okay let's see what else they have to say for themselves about this particular product so you VGA warranty for more terms of this so this is an AR product which means it qualifies for lifetime warranty if you register it on the EVGA website EVGA precision is obviously compatible with this card that's an overclocking utility they also have an OC scanner utility that you can use with this card one Austria and EVGA 24/7 tech support so whether it's night or day you can call up EVGA at any time and get help with your card and let's see what else they have to say for themselves on the side of the box there another number one seller of Nvidia based products in the US number one in reliability and service of graphics cards Asterix something something something okay number one performance leader in 3d mark 11 Asterix something something something and folding at home team number one folding at home team in the world something something something asterisk asterisk asterisks so they are qualifying their statements you will or I'd rather they are backing up their statements you can give them that that is for sure alright so the first thing we find in the box is a pretty wind posture that has a big old skull guy on it there we are if I can actually get the poster to come on unfold the hair we are so we have a skull guy here okay the next thing we find inside is a graphics card user guide which will show you how to plug the power into your graphics card how to plug in your graphics card all that good stuff a Quick Start Guide similar all right GTX 580 so shows you how to plug in the eight pin and six pin power connector it also tells you please allow your graphics card to cool for a minimum of two minutes after turning off your PC before touching it powered by EVGA sticker EVGA disk which you shouldn't use you should download all the latest tools and utilities off the EVGA website and the latest drivers off the Nvidia website next we have a mini HDMI to HDMI cable this is better than an adapter because it means that the HDMI like if you have an adapter it means that the HDMI cable can get in the way of the next over DVI slot so this is a very nice addition we also have a DVI to VGA adapter please please don't use that get a better monitor and to or rather one dual molex to 6-pin PCI II and one dual 6 pin PCI II to 8 pin PCIe finally the card itself let's that over make ourselves a little spot alright so there is the GTX 580 DS so it has dual eighty millimeter fans and I can't tell if these are PWM controlled fans although I would assume they are yes they are PWM controlled fans they have a huge gap in the shroud you can see that there's almost no restriction to the airflow that is available to these fans so you don't have to worry about even if you install a card in the next over slot you can see that the curvature of the cover makes sure that even if something is right up against you're gonna have a lot of room for those fans to draw in air that's a very smart design choice that EVGA has made the top of the card looks really slick and it looks like this actually lights up would be my guess let me just see if I can see any power going to it anywhere okay I can't so that's still a guess yes I can there there's power so that lights up blue by the look of things which is gonna look just sweet in your case like that all right it's got your standard six pin and eight pin PCIe connectors up here in the top as well as support for up to four Way SLI with dual SLI connectors at the top of the card moving around to the back of the card you see absolutely nothing interesting on the bottom of the card you see exhaust vents so what that means is that this is not an external exhaust card it's gonna kick a little bit of heat out the back of the card you can see there's a nice open backplate there but most of the heat is going to be on the inside so what that means is that well suck it up princess make sure you have a case but it has decent cooling on the inside because if you have a really stuffy case it's not gonna kick all the heat out what they're doing is they're compromising the overall internal case temperatures and they're counting on anyone who buys a GTX 580 to have a good gaming case with decent fans and they are Sacre to get better performance on cooling the GPU itself which will give you better overclocking and a more stable longer-lasting card okay so the top as well actually has those vents I didn't really mention that before the design of the cooler is very interesting so it has five heat pipes you can actually see the heat pipes down here so those heat pipes actually run across the GPU core so the GPU cores right here alright so they run across the GPU core carrying heat out to a separate heatsink that blows air directly down on to the PWM which doesn't have dedicated heat things on it although it is alone it is connected or isn't connected I can't quite tell and I can't get I can't get in there to see hold on give me a sec so it looks like it's making contact with this part of the heatsink but really this the biggest use of this is to the pwms all any other components over here as well as driving heat away from the GPU with those heat pipes so that's awesome on the back we find the usual dual DVI and one mini HDMI that we find on all GTX 580 s and as usual this is a pcie 2.0 16 X card so PC a 2.1 or something like that I think but that doesn't really make much difference one way or the other so one thing I want to do really quickly is I want to find out if this is a custom PCB and it would appear that it is not it looks like a standard PCB so what EVGA has customized about this card if they have customized the cooler so they're giving you their yes sweet looking cooler looks great actually all right they are customizing the clock speed so they have turned the clock speeds up a little bit versus a standard part and they are obviously providing their service and their warranty which you don't get if you don't buy an EVGA card here's something funny they look at this there's a few more components right here versus some missing ones here interesting sometimes you see slight changes over the life cycle of a product this is actually a very old GTX 580 the one right here this is a launched 580 from EVGA so this is how the product has evolved since it or originally was released so thank you for checking out this unboxing on the GTX 580 DS from EVGA don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from ur unboxings reviews and other computer videos