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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 650 this is the power Edition from MSI which is actually going to be quite a factor for this particular GPU I believe although I haven't tested yet this is my first time opening up the box so I'm pretty excited about that this is an OC edition as most power Edition cards are it uses their trans thermal design which I will show you guys once I open it up it's got one gig of gddr5 although the 650 will be available with two gigs as well uses a 128-bit bus and the GK 107 GPU so this is a slightly lower in GPU than the GK 106 that's used in the g4s GTX 660 although the 660ti use of the 104 GP so just sort of try and wrap your brain around all that so this has most of the Kepler features including DirectX 11 as well as 3d vision support Nvidia surround their new anti-aliasing technologies adaptive vsync which turns your vsync on if you are above your refresh rate of your monitor and off if you're below this provides an optimal balance of performance and avoiding screen tearing you've got full support for physics cuda as well as their purevideo HD technology okay and up to three plus one displays out so you can use let's just open it up shall we get this going guys if you +1 displays up because I meant to say is great display so sorry my bad actually give me a sec yeah free displays out sorry guys so that's why what's apart for NVIDIA surround technology that's sort of dense reason but not three plus one so if you want three plus one you're going to want to look at one of the higher-end cards such as the 660 or 660ti I mean it's kind of stands to reason because there's no way you're going to be playing a game and surround on sort of a lower end card like this plus be running an auxilary display it just doesn't necessarily make any sense so let's have a look at what we've got in terms of accessories you've got a dual molex to PCIe power adapter you've got bunch of stuff in here DVI to VGA adapter ah one of those right-angle mini HDMI to HDMI adapter z' these are handy because they keep it from interfering with your case alright got some documentation that doesn't really matter as well as a driver disc but you should download the latest off the Nvidia website let's go ahead close this bad boy up put that in there okay now one conspicuous absentee from the Nvidia feature set even though this is a GTX class card is SLI okay so if you guys want SLI compatibility you want the ability to run a couple cards in tandem in the future you're going to want to go with at least a GeForce GTX 660 okay at the time of filming although who knows or maybe some other GPU coming out later that goes between them that might support it that's a lie I don't know anything about that though so let's have a look at the card itself right power Edition what's important about that with these kind of mainstream mainstream gaming graphics cards it's all about getting the best bang for your buck so you are definitely going to want to get the most out of whatever overclocking you're going to do on a card like this so what a power Edition card does is it gives you access to MSI's additional over volting options so those old revolting options are going to allow you to really squeeze every last megahertz until it megahertz out of this card to get as much performance as you can full support port for PCI Express 3.0 so that's a 16x lot and don't worry about the missing pins it's fine we've seen this before on NVIDIA lower end gaming cards and it doesn't actually it doesn't actually matter unless you need the extra bandwidth or well not extra bandwidth it's still running at PCIe 16x unless you need the extra pins you don't end up needing the extra pins so the higher end cards have all them the lower end ones sometimes don't let's have a look at the cooler so this is sort of a unique design check this out okay so you've got kind of these contact plates down here which are split up a little bit okay then you've got thermal interface material under them that is interacting with things like like the memory things like vrm all that good stuff and then you've got a very open I'm just going to slide this again I'll show you what that does later you've got a very open design allows a lot of air to pass right through the card which is going to do a great job of cooling vrm components as well as the any memory modules or whatever else the case may be speaking of memory modules with the 128-bit bus and with the density of memory chips these days there are only four memory chips there on the other side of the card and I suspect because this is a custom PCB that they need to redesign the PCB in order to install actually hold on those might be contact let's might be contact pads for additional ones here actually so they probably wouldn't need to a two gig card could be done fairly easily with this PCB alright so let's show you guys MSI's exclusive trans thermal design so you want more silence you leave it in single fan mode this is using a propeller blade fan that looks like in like a 92 millimeter fan so that's pretty cool see did they have anything to say for them dial yes okay so we'll use their diagram so their single fan mode there's higher static pressure double airflow mode and then there's actually dual fan mode suite so this provides more cooling for the PWM modules in memory this enhances the heat dissipation capacity with pressure which remember you need pressure to push air through fins and then you need better and this single fan mode is just like quieter and better than reference still so the cooler includes their propeller fins as well as their dust removal technology so their dust removal technology spins the fan backwards to blow some dust out of the heatsink before then turning around and spinning the correct way now this will sound kind of loud when you first turn it on every time but bear in mind the card is operating correctly and everything is okay so I'm going to show you guys how to transform from one mode to another one I'm guessing they could call it a transformer because then Apple would claim that they invented transformers and you know tell them they can't sell their card in North America anymore are waiting up can pump yeah must be Apple that's that's the one that amended everything so here is the double stack fan configuration and you can see that they've actually got these kind of a smart fan design actually I wouldn't have minded if they were counter rotating that would be even better but you can see they've got these blades in here that will help it generate more pressure without generating as much interference between the two fans then you plug this guy right in here and all of a sudden you have a triple slaw card but MSI is giving you the option to keep it dual slot if you don't want to install the additional the initial fan module however you have more options than that but wait there's more slide it like this pop it in like this and oh whoops I did that wrong hold on I got this I got this ah there we go there you go dual fan cooler so that increases the length of the card a little bit as well so you still plug the power in there but you got a little bit more I mean there's going to be a lot of clearance in most gaming cases for this kind of a card anyway but there you go that's showing you both of the additional fan notes so in conclusion that is the 6 GTX 650 from innocence is the power Edition with their transdermal cooling solution don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos