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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's very exciting this is the Galaxy GeForce GTX 670 it supports a wide variety of exciting features most of which you can actually find out about on my galaxy gtx 680 unboxing as well as review and all the other videos i did about it because the 670 is actually very similar to the 680 in many ways now sure it doesn't have quite as many cuda cores it only has 1344 sure it's not clocked quite as high with a boost clock that's generally in the neighborhood of around 980 mega hertz although GPU boost doesn't necessarily you know nail it down to an exact frequency at any given time and sure it might look a little different and more on that in a moment but in terms of the performance in terms of the memory speed in terms of the memory bus this is the first time in a while we haven't seen a step down card from the flagship single GPU that is actually using the same memory bus at the same frequency so it has six gigahertz gddr5 memory with a 256 bit bus it's using the sig right right right so the reason that most of the features are very similar is because it is using the same GK 104 core that the GTX 680 is using although slightly cut down in terms of the functional units the CUDA cores and the clock speed but other than that this is almost a GTX 680 although the key difference is that it comes at a more attractive price so you can see it actually looks very similar as well more on that in a moment so let's just have a look at what galaxy includes with their GTX 670 and here we find slick all black packaging I'm a big fan of packaging as you guys probably know if you've watched a few of my videos like I'm packaged a lot of products so I do recognize good packaging when I see it got nice little individually packaged to Ziploc II things going on here so we've got a DVI to vga adapter we have two dual molex to 6 see id adapter so that probably tells us that this card uses dual 6-pin pci ii power adapters as well as a graphics card driver installation disk although you should download the latest and finally a set-up guide easy setup for quick installation for geforce gtx 680 that pretty much covers it attention customers thank you for purchasing your pablo blog be sure to register your card within 30 days of purchase to receive an extended warranty so galaxy does provide up to I believe it's yes three years of warranty if you extent if you register your card right away go ahead and later now let's get to the card itself so first let's do a brief rundown and yeah I'm totally gonna look over there and use my cheat sheet because that's how I roll of the features that the GTX 670 includes that were first introduced on the 680 so we've got GPU boost which means that it dynamically according to the TDP that is the thermal design envelope of this particular card as well as the power envelope is going to adjust assuming that your GPU is running cool enough and your board is not consuming too much power like if you're using something like fur mark than it would know that well that's not a real game and it's drawing more power than as realistic GPU boost will dynamically adjust the frequency of your GPU in order to make the best use of the power and the heat envelope that it has available to it so GPU boost is definitely present on the 670 we also have FXAA has been added to the Nvidia control panel that's accessible to for many different cards now adaptive vsync is one that's really cool so adaptive vsync allows you to either be using vsync when your framerate is way way above the refresh rate of your monitor whether it's 60 or 120 or whatever the case may be so it will turn vsync on to eliminate tearing so that is when your GPU draws the top half of the screen and the bottom half of the screen in the middle of a monitor refresh and you see like there's a guy standing there and he's like slightly disconnected at the waist so that's caring so VSIP will turn on when you're up there and then when you are below 60 let's sixty-four are hypothetically most monitors most LCDs of 60 Hertz when you're below sixty Hertz it will no longer have to drop you all the way down to 30 if your GPU is capable of pushing 55 frames per second which is how these thing works so it turns vsync off as soon as you fall below that threshold so you get the best of both worlds so that's adaptive vsync TxAA is basically more what are they what are they what do they sort of call it pretty much the performance avianna see i'm mode one right two times multi sampling a performance and it looks like eight times a day so that's basically bat and then mode two is you know what hold on you may say I couldn't read my little chart from too far away so mode one is the performance hit of two times anti-aliasing and it looks about like eight times anti-aliasing and then mode two looks even better than that and is about the same performance hit as four times anti-aliasing so that is also present on this part next we have full support for Nvidia 3d vision surround off of a single card so you can go one two three displays with an auxilary display no big deal so you want to run your three displays and then your auxilary one can run the game at the same time it's not for surround gaming but if you had like you know a chat window open or like system monitoring utilities or stuff open on that fourth monitor then you can totally run that one as well so up to three plus one displays is also supported on this card 4k monitor support as well as HDMI 1.4 a that includes 3d which is very very cool stuff better physics performance and we're pretty much there now let's have a look at the card itself so it uses a similar blower design cooler which also includes the acoustic dampening hooha that nvidia included with the gtx 680 you can see it's a slightly shorter card although it's more than slightly shorter which I'll show you more of in a moment and uses the same fan which is good because the GTX 680 fan is excellent is a PCI Express 3.0 card which is good if you have the latest Ivy Bridge platform for your system you can see on the back we've got certain you know more like plasticy shroud ii thing there's PCIe interface I already showed you the two DVI hdmi and displayport connectors up here we've got cool geforce gtx branding and then here we've got our two 6-pin PCI connectors and what you may have noticed about that is it's in kind of a weird location why would that be because the GTX 670 comes with a very short PCB and Vidia has actually rotated the GPU around to make better use of the power circuitry being on the the back half of the card so all your power delivery is actually here instead of here so they no longer needed that segment of the PCB check this out there you go so you can see this 670 is a reference 6:17 there's actually extra room for more graphics memory so you can buy a 670 with up to 4 gigs of graphics memory and where all that power delivery circuitry normally is it's no longer there so they are still using the nice long efficient blower cooler which is going to exhaust most of the air out the back of your case and you can also see there's a nice big gap between the heatsink and these these vents back here which actually allows for slightly better airflow but they've used a very very efficient design to achieve that speaking of efficiency it is by far better performance per watt than anything else that NVIDIA has produced in this kind of a price range before so it's like I said using the same GPU as the GTX 680 which means it just blows away its predecessors the 570 the 470 in terms of the performance per watt that this card can deliver it is compatible with multi Way SLI configurations due to its two sli it's two sli bridge months to nasa-like connectors sorry guys I'm tired and I think that pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the geforce gtx 570 from galaxy and don't forget to subscribe to - tech 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