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today we're going to be unboxing a very exciting product from EVGA this is the GeForce GTX 460 so that is 20 less than the GTX 480 10 less than the GTX 470 and only 5 less than the GTX 460 5 but the performance of the 460 is actually very very close to its big brother the 465 and it's quite a lot cheaper now it does have less ram so that means that high resolutions you might be a little bit limited in terms of running like huge anti-aliasing on high resolutions but with the price of this card you're probably not going to be running at 2560 by 1600 with a 30-inch monitor anyway so I'm going to go ahead and start breaking the seals here so the GTX 460 5 or 460 is a bit of a change from the other Fermi based cards in that Nvidia has actually reworked the architecture of this card quite a bit that means that power consumption is down heat output is down and performance is up versus some of the other 400 series cards it also means that the price is down so this is around $200 u.s. and that puts it securely in a sort of value enthusiastic a more price point if such a thing existed so here's a little Quick Start Guide next we have a graphics card user guide okay so that shows us some super basics talks about e VJs advanced our May program talks a little bit about their precision software which is for overclocking that's a pretty good value add as well as EVGA social networks ok cool go ahead and put that down we've got an EVGA sticker as well as an EVGA driver disk don't use this driver disk on the latest off the Nvidia website woo that's a nice sticker EVGA GeForce GTX 400 US so I could put it there if I wanted to but I don't next let's go and have a look at the part itself so I haven't seen an EVGA box like this before looks like they've redesign things a little bit in terms of accessories we've got a mini HDMI to HDMI dongle we have a dual molex to one PCIe 6 pin dongle then we have to molex to one PCIe 6s ok so we have 2 of those then we have a DVI to VGA adapter and that's it then we have the card itself it's quite a bit smaller than the each other GTX 400 series cards because all of the other cards despite having different model names are based on the same core and most of them are even based on the same PCB even if the coolers are slightly different this one however is based on a much smaller PCB so it ends up being a much smaller card and it's also a smaller core so you can see where the where the GPU core actually is on the back of the GPU back of the video card see GPU and video card I use these terms interchangeably but the GPU is actually the graphics processing unit there and the video card is the whole thing with a PCB which in this case is black a GPU on it Ram on it all that good stuff so at the top we're going to find an SLI connector it is sli ready but it does not support 3-way SLI because per 3-way SLI you would need two sli connectors we have an 80 millimeter fan on the front and you can see that it's using a flower style heatsink that is actually here cameraman just look at that card for a second we back it actually closely resembles the stock intel heatsink where you've got a copper core at the back and in this case we can see there is a copper base with a couple of heat pipes attached to it and then it's got like this radial fin thing going on and I've actually seen intel heat sinks that are shaped exactly like that so it looks like you know it's a bit of a tribute to Intel's thermal engineer so that yes that design does work we've got two heat pipes coming out here and presumably coming over here where there's more heat sink and over here and presumably coming out over there so you can actually see yes there is additional heatsink material past that little flower shape and that's having heat transported to it by the heat pipe so here we've got PCI Express 16x connector and at the back of the card it still does pull back a fair bit of power but that's what you generally expect from a $200 plus gaming card so you need to 6-pin PCI Express connectors and let's have a look at what we've got in terms of camera man what are you doing oh you're looking down the spout okay well I haven't looked there yet so I don't know what's there but I guess in here I'll look through the camera - oh we can see the heatsink okay hold on I'm going to look oh yeah yeah yeah you can see where the heat pipe attaches to that heat sink in there cool all right so let's turn around and see what we've got in terms of output connectors so we have two DVI and one HDMI connector now this card does support Nvidia surround as well as 3d vision technology so bearing in mind though that you would need two cards to run surround gaming so you can only use two of these three connectors at any given time thank you for checking out my unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 768 Meg version bearing in mind there is a 1 gig version that will perform slightly better due to extra memory as well as extra memory bandwidth the cameraman pointed out to me this is actually a bumper sticker so you would apply it to your bumper like so