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so today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the msi gtx 560 that's it no Ti so this is a 5/16 on Ti it features their twin frozer 2 cooler it is an OC Edition card so it has the well it has some justification for the Twin Frozr cooler because they have turned up the clock speeds it features their military class 2 concept which means using higher quality components in order to increase longevity increase overclocking all that good stuff it's only 30 decibels under full load as MSI says and I believe that between froze artoo is an excellent cooler I just think it's awesome alright we've got a three year warranty in the US and Canada and Mexico don't know where else the warranties apply or don't apply ok it is 3d vision ready features physics cuda nvidia sli up to 2-way SLI on this particular GPU and it has full support for MSI Afterburner you also get a copy of Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light this is a steam copy so it's quite easy to activate alright opening this up you can see a little bit more information about exactly the stuff that I just said and I'm pretty familiar with the twin throws are two cooler so I think I can go in blind on that one what I would seeing what MSI has to say for themselves so the GTX 560 90 I so this is just a slightly cut-down card with the same basic GPU so the performance is close but not quite what you're going to get out of the GTX 560 Ti fully fledged card but it's cheaper so there you go features not features comes with a mini HDMI to HDMI adaptor a DVI to VGA adapter a quick user's guide some useless discs there's your Lara Croft game as well as your driver update guide alright so go ahead and put this back in put this back in and let's have a look at the product itself here oh no no more accessories so dual molex to single 6 pin PCI II connectors two of them and finally the prime itself comes in an anti-static a Twin Frozr - cooler hasn't changed much you know what and give me two seconds I'm gonna grab about 560 Ti yeah I forgot my 560 Twin Frozr - 560 GI Twin Frozr - and I'd be careful with that from now on my 560 ti twin brother - is part of the prize system I'm giving away so it's upstairs I'm not gonna go get it but this is a GTX 460 Hawk and it uses the same PCB as the 560 TI Twin Frozr - so you can see that it also uses the same PCB you can see the hawk is actually covered up right here as the gtx 560 Twin Frozr - so there's no real changes in terms of the physical layout of this board but I'm gonna walk you through it anyway we've got a couple of 92 millimeter low-profile fans so this allows MSI to maintain a two slot profile while putting in a dual fan custom cooled cooler solution alright we've got two super pipes so here's your two regular heat pipes in the middle of the GPU and the two super pipes are going out further away from the GPU because they do need to carry heat a little bit more efficiently because they are going over a greater distance you've got your standard PCIe 16x interface down here as well as what the heck is this this looks like it's got a couple purposes okay so that's something new all right so you can see on the GTX 460 here there's nothing here and on the gtx 560 Twin Frozr - there is a heap sync here so that would be for the the voltage regulators so I guess MSI has just beefed up the design a little bit here and it looks like it's also gonna provide some additional yeah here if you look at it from this side you can see it actually wraps around the end of the PCB and if that should provide some stiffness to the card as well and that won't be the only thing that provides stiffness to the card so you can see up here they're using their PCB stiffener actually they have a name for this but I've just forgotten and it looks like they haven't included it on the on the box either which makes my life more difficult but basically what it is is it's a piece of metal that allows the card to be more rigid overall so you can't you can't really flex the piece of you know what why don't we compare it against the 460 so here you can see how much flex there isn't it right okay so let's compare that to the 460 I'll hold that the same way and I'm just gonna pinch it the same way so you can see how that PCB can flex quite a bit more now especially if you're moving your system around or shipping it remember it's only secured by the PCIe slot and by the two screws up here so if the card is not very stiff over here there can be a lot of a lot of movement which can cause it to I mean I've even heard of cards in shipping mind you before they use two spring mounted screws on the backs of video cards this is why everyone started doing it where the coolers actually coming off from vibration and from movement it can also cause undue strain on the PCIe slot and on the screws if you don't have that stiffening piece there so that's that's one thing that they have added to this card versus the 460 we've got dual 6 pin PCI II connectors on the back of the card so it should have support for almost any power supply any modern power supply should be able to run this card just fine here's your 4 pin PWM fan control at the top of the board you do find your sli bridge connector so there is just one which means two-way SLI not 3-way SLI the back of the card looks pretty much like we've come to expect from anything using this particular PCB you guys are welcome to look for them if you want but I suspect you will not find any differences between the appearance of the 460 Hawke and the GTX Twin Frozr - 560 GTX Twin Frozr these these names are getting very confusing I have to confess alright on the back of the card you find dual DVI if I can ever get this connector plug cover thing off as well as mini HDMI so that's why you have that adapter now about the Twin Frozr - cooler you can see here there are some vent holes so you're going to have a little bit of heat expelled outside of the case but most of it is going to be expelled inside the case so there's always compromises to be made and the compromise MSI has made as they have opted for lower overall G tech GPU temperatures which should result in better overclocking at the buy and sacrificing the overall case temperatures a little bit so you want to make sure you got a decently ventilated case with good cooling fans and you shouldn't run into any problems thank you for checking out my unboxing of the gtx 560 non TI don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews another computer videos