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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the msi geforce gtx 670 OC so this is an overclocked version of this already very fast very overclockable hence the factory overclocked editions of the card that are available at launch GPUs so this is using the GK 104 GPU from Nvidia which is the same one that is used in their flagship single GPU card the GTX 680 but the only difference is they've cut back some of the food of course and they have that's about it they dialed back the frequency a little bit but you look at guys like MSI going and releasing 1.0 4 or 5 gigahertz graphics cards and the frequency isn't dialed back at all so what what what am I gonna say right because that's the only difference the the memory is still clocked at 6 gigahertz and it is still using a 256 bit bus which is the first time we've seen that in quite a while I mean gtx 570 had the memory bus cut back from the 580 the 470 had the memory bus cut back from the 480 and then even going back to the 260 was cut back from the from the 280 so yeah this is yeah this is like a totally totally new thing for us to see that India didn't do that moving right along GPU boost is supported which means that it will dynamically adjust the clock speed of your graphics card according to the power and heat attributes that it is aiming for so whatever targets it'll just wrap things up according to how much Henry min has left this guy comes with the DVI to VGA adapter to dual molex to single PCIe 6 pin adapters a driver disk which you shouldn't use just download the latest as well as a whatever this is Quick Start Guide and then another Quick Start Guide awesome this is a really old character I don't think they've used that one since like GeForce 6,000 space so this this guide must be an assorted recycled here but you know there's no point if it ain't broke don't fix it right new graphics card doesn't necessarily mean the rules for plugging in a PCI Express card change am i right okay so let's get this baby opened up I can already see some trademark MSI stuff going on over here there are little blue covers for the connectors as well as the display ports and the ports that you connect to displays that are not called display port as well as they're also somewhat trademark almost black PCB which you'll see on like other msi products such as the gtx 560 TI huh see not quite black but still looks really slick in your case I'm just gonna put that aside for now um am I missing here right the two gigs right it has two gigs of memory which means that even if you're running a surround configuration you should still be okay I mean yeah the Radeon HD 7950 if you're especially if you're running three high-resolution displays might perform a little bit better in your given game but you're going to be missing the 3d vision surround support as well as physics and all the other exclusive Nvidia technologies including their TxAA modes which give you better image quality but with a lesser performance that compared to traditional multi sampling anti-aliasing as well as adaptive vsync which gives you especially in those multi display configurations this can be a big problem because vsync if you go above the display above the refresh rate of your monitor will cause tearing which means that instead of being aligned things will look kind of like this in the middle of your screen and if you go below it has to use a multiple or a factor of your refresh rate so that means if you are capable of running at 55 FPS it will chalk you all the way down to 30 because you're running vsync so it'll turn it adapted vsync turns it on when you're up there and off when you're down here so you can get the most out of your graphics card three plus one displays are supported so we've got ya HDMI and DisplayPort and then two DVI parts so you can run three of the in 3d vision surround and then one auxilary display for you no system monitoring utilities or whatever else that you need to show on that fourth display so that is right up to four displays 4k monitor support as well as HDMI 1.4 a gives you a 3d over HDMI as well has a very efficient PCB design so you can see and videos reference design which is what this card is using even though it is factory overclocked so it is slightly non-reference is a very very short PCB and NVIDIA has relocated the power delivery to the other side of the GPU which is something that we haven't really seen before except on you know dual GPU cards where they don't really have a choice and they have to kind of read finagle things pretty differently compared to a single GPU card multiple SLI connectors means we are compatible with multi Way SLI configurations and we are you also using PCI Express 3.0 the card is also as you can clearly see fully capable of supporting up to four gigs of memory without any difficulties so that would be a great configuration to four gig cards with a three monitor setup means you're going to have enough memory to store all the textures that you need as well as the uber horsepower that you need from the GPUs themselves in order to drive that kind of a resolution so for anyone considering an SLI configuration for the GTX 670 I would definitely recommend going with the four gig cards if you're going to have multiple monitors or even one high resolution monitor such as that one it's a 30-inch monitor running at 2560 by 1600 I think that pretty much covers it this card uses a blower design is a reference card so almost all of the heat that is accumulated here and cooled here is going to be exhausted out the back of the case much like the 680 NVIDIA has redesigned things somewhat in order to give you a more dead space between the i/o shield as and the heatsink itself so that just gives you slightly better airflow out the back of the card and just sounds like a quick length comparison it's just a little shorter than a GTX 680 although if you have a smaller heatsink on it your your water cool it or something I bet you could fit this in a very very small case without any difficulty whatsoever which is really cool I think that pretty much wraps it up so what is it it's a cheaper slightly less powerful although overclockable to the point where you could get similar performance to a 680 card it's starting to look like a pretty darn good value thank you for checking out my unboxing of the MSI GTX 670 OC 2 Geographics card online as tech tips and don't forget to subscribe