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all right today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an EVGA video card that is unique so first I'm gonna tell you all of the things that are not unique what's not unique is that this is a geforce card EVGA is a geforce exclusive vendor what's not unique is that this is a 1.2 8 gigabyte gddr5 card just like every other gtx 570 under the sun it is also not unique that it is a gtx 570 it is not unique that it supports 3d vision surround in sli mode which is also not unique DirectX 11 and physics are not unique features and neither is the fact that it supports HD resolutions but these two letters right here indicate what is unique about this card I'm not gonna spoil the surprise now even though I I just foreshadowed it if you guys were paying very very close attention you would have noticed what exactly I just did for Shadow and is unique about it so first of all let's take off the packaging because that is what I do on this channel I open up all the sexy computer products so that you guys can see them ok so let's talk about what's special about EVGA what special about EVGA is a couple things warranty EVGA has one of the most reputable warranties and the graphics card biz everyone knows this now bear in mind that the warranties do vary based on the part number so I don't believe this one has a lifetime warranty but some products do okay this is a K R suffix product you can see that right there so yeah I'm not sure what the warranty is on this card but you can always look it up find out what kr means by going on their site EVGA has 24/7 support a bunch of stuff over here most of this is not particularly unique and they've got their precision tool which is awesome based on if you leave it's based on rivet tuner ok and I believe it also actually works on non EVGA cards as well don't forget they have their trade-in program so if something new comes out and you you don't like it anymore and you're still within a I forget how many days it is Wow I'm terrible right now sorry guys but anyway they have a trade-in program as well which is awesome and pretty unique but that's not the thing that's so special about this card okay here we have a driver disc and a case batch so don't use that download the latest from the Nvidia website okay we have a Quick Start Guide for a GTX 580 and 570 you probably shows us how to plug in power connectors and how to install a PCIe graphics card very nice here we have a poster okay okay it has a spell on it EVGA giving makes you die visit the website doesn't make you die it makes other people die I think that's what they mean all right foam please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of two minutes after operation before removing it from your system okay EVGA here we've got a dual molex to a single PCIe 6 pin adapter here we have another one show you that again here we have a DVI to VGA adapter and here we have the part itself I'm gonna go ahead and pull that sticker off you guys what is unique about this graphics card so the first thing I'll actually notice about it is that this does not appear to be a reference card this looks a lot closer to a gtx 560 in terms of the cooler design of a few heat pipes down there it's got a flower style cooler like the intel stock heatsink you can see that there when I spin the fan okay now appears that we are not using an entirely external exhaust system here so you can see the VRMs are cooled by black heat sinks and they're gonna get some incidental airflow from that their fan alright we've got two PCIe 6 pin connectors so this is clearly not a reference PCB because normally on the gtx 570 reference cards the pc e power connectors are up here we do have full support for 3-way SLI because we do have two sli bridges up here but even the custom cooler and custom PCB are not what is unique about this card what is so unique is this I'm gonna give it away now DisplayPort so this card supports DVI HDMI and DisplayPort outputs isn't that cool so here on the back you can see where the GPU is you can see where all the RAM chips are installed and you can see that it uses a PCIe 16x connector to install into your motherboard and that took a fair amount of googling around to find the answer but the inevitable question if we've added DisplayPort how many displays can we output at one time the answer is still - so you can either use dual DVI DVI HDMI DVI DisplayPort hdmi displayport but not all four and not even three of them at the same time so there you go and I think that is pretty much everything I wanted to say about the GTX 570 HD thank you for watching Linus tech tips and don't forget to subscribe