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now you might think that it's a little late to be unboxing a GTX 570 but this one has a bit of a twist that you guys might find interesting who knows so this is the galaxy MDT gtx 570 scott 1280 Meg's of RAM just like most gtx 570s it's got a test form inside which is not actually for you guys but rather for my use it has some foam and has wind split settings so this is interesting but we'll get into more about that a little bit later it also has the MDT series exclusive software settings guide which is also interesting but we'll get into that a little bit more later graphics card driver and then wind split revolution software installation just this you might actually need although you should download the latest if available from galaxy it's a website okay so let's go ahead and see what we got for adapters we got a DVI to VGA we've got a mini HDMI to HDMI these are gold-plated this sub only HDMI one is this one's not the HDMI one is a bold plated adapter though it's got a nice little extras go a long way so we've got dual molex to PCIe eight pin and then we've got dual molex to PCIe six pin just in case you don't have the appropriate PCI Express slots on your arm slots connectors on your power supply although if you're still using a power supply that suddenly got molex connectors to plug into your graphics card it's probably time to think about upgrading and is very interesting about this particular video card so the 570 is still by all rights a high performance graphics card but it's always had a bit of a disadvantage in the market compared to its competition from AMD and that is that the gtx 570 has never supported more than two displays out at a time for surround gaming unless you buy two of them so how did gala see see fit to address this we'll check this out they put four DVI connectors one mini HDMI as well although that's less relevant and I'll talk about that in a little bit four DVI connectors on this card making it capable of driving up to three displays and surround plus an additional monitor which is very very cool I mean I suppose you could run the four displays at a time but that wouldn't be very beneficial because you'd have a bezel like right in the middle so this is a gaming card it's intended for gaming so I'm going to go ahead and say that I think the intended use is probably four three displays at 1080p in a surround gaming mode so how they achieve this well one they have a custom designed card so you can see this is a completely non reference card with four DVI connectors on it as well as an aftermarket cooler so here there you go you guys can have a look at the cooler so it's got an eighty millimeter fan and a very beefy and very heavy heatsink going on here so check this out we've got one two heat pipes three heat pipes it's hard to kind of see those in there how many heat pipes do we have total can you see in there four heat pipes total I think it's four heat pipes total yeah yeah so four heat pipes total including so two coming out to the left here or to the right and then two coming out to the left very dense aluminum fin array on both sides as well as a downward draft fan that is actually very cleverly positioned because it's almost directly over the PWM so while we can use these heat pipes that are positioned directly above the GPU to distribute that heat to the rest of the fins we use the fans direct cooling in order to keep the voltage regulators cool enough so that's pretty much it for that part of the card so let's get back to the display so you have a couple different options you can run them normally so you can see there's dvi-i DVID one DVID two and DVID three you can either run hmm to DV is three DV is two DV is in an HDMI or you can run 4 DV eyes or three DD eyes and an HDMI be back in a sec so there's a fair bit of hocus-pocus that is going on with this particular graphics card so in order to achieve the whole triple monitor gaming thing because really that's how many monitors you can span a single virtual display much like the way I affinity works we've got these numbered ones so we've got DVID one two and three and these guys are only good up to 1920 by 1080 if you're running three at a time so bear that in mind 1080p monitors are the most you're going to be able to do triple displays on however it should be noted that with a GTX 570 level graphics card unless you're running more than one card you're probably only going to want three 1080p monitors anyway you're not going to run 330 inches off something like this okay so you either run two displays plus one which runs off either these or you run three displays plus one that runs off either these so this is great for I used to play a fair man the supreme commander so if I wanted to run triple monitor and then have my mini-map displayed on an additional one that is how I would do it because Supreme Commander was multi display capable whereas if you have a game like race driver grid you would only be able to run it off one monitor and then you might be able to have like task manager or whatever displayed it depends on whether the game is multi display compatible or not so these guys create one virtual display these guys are a secondary monitor so I hope that that's clear now galaxy does provide a couple pieces of software the both the win split as well as the easy easy why easy wide display software settings so you can use that in order to configure everything properly because it's not built into the GeForce driver this is a galaxy exclusive technology which is one of the reasons I don't know if you guys have noticed but this is the first time I've ever looked at a galaxy card but this is one of the reasons why I think this one is so neat because unlike any other GeForce card other than the GTX 590 which is kind of cheating because it has two GPUs on it to achieve its surround gaming glory this one supports surrounds so it is a direct competitor and it is completely feature competitive against any AMD card because not only does it have 3d vision and all that good stuff it also has high affinity which I don't know what to call it I mean we'll call it invidious around yes because that's what it's called then you have two cards but it's got it on a single card so since I've never talked about galaxy before I should probably mention a couple other things so they've got 24/7 365 tech support for US and Canada only I don't know about other territories guys extreme tuner HD so they've got some overclocking software they also have a one-click ezy buttons ultra simple multi display window management so that's that software that they included and then they've also got a couple of other cool things so they've got a dual BIOS we're used to seeing these on motherboards now but it's not that often we see it on graphics cards and you started doing it on some of their cards on the very high end but here we go there's galaxy adding it to Nvidia cards when no one else has it power meter allows you to monitor the entire card's status and power consumption and voltage settings so for full control for extreme overclockers I don't know how many extreme overclockers are gonna need a card like this because they aren't typically running for displays at a time but there you go I guess the options are there so thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the in Gotham video well it is Nvidia Nvidia galaxy geforce gtx 570 MDT with multi display technology don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos