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this is a video card that's been highly anticipated and has received fantastic reviews across the web this is the GeForce GTX 460 and this particular version is not your run-of-the-mill GTX 460 now I've received a lot of requests over the time that I've been doing my unboxings and blog videos to take a look at cards that don't feature the reference and video or ATI design well I'm finally doing it this is another non reference card I looked at another one recently so this features and the size cyclone cooler it also has their military-grade arm sorry military class components so you can see here that includes the high conductive capacitors solid capacitors solid state chokes as well as no buzz and this is a really interesting thing for them to call out because I've seen a lot of complaints over the last few years with many high-end cards that as soon as you start to play a game you hear like a wine or a buzz and that's from this style of choke with a solid state choke a well-built one and a well-designed PCB you can eliminate that noise so that if you have a quiet fan you get here zero noise from your graphics card so that's something I'm definitely going to take a look at when I actually get this video card out of the box and running they are also talking about MSI Afterburner which is a terrific utility co-developed by MSI and rivatuner it's my overclocking utility of choice you've probably actually seen me use it in a couple of videos even featuring other brands of graphics cards because it works great and then let's have a look at what else we've got - ok cameraman wants to look at that for a while you can pause it if you want to read that I suppose you know what let's start getting the card out of the box and then I can talk about some of the other bullet points that make this particular one special and the side does include a three year warranty with their graphics cards and so just fine my box fell apart look at that hopefully they have a warranty on the box - hahaha Wow like I unboxed it like more than usual huh ok well there you can click the box and it's all of its glory just like that ok so let's get the card open here in terms of accessories we've brought pretty standard fare we have a DVI to VGA adapter a DVI to HDMI adapter we've got two molex to 6-pin PCI Express power adapters and then we have a graphics card now this is an odd one Oh No there it is I was gonna say there's no driver disk I don't have to tell you not to use it to throw it away but there it is thrown away and then we've got a quick users guide so that's going to show you how to install your graphics card tell you a little bit about it show you how to install the drivers okay and then the last thing we have here is something about the 460 GTX series so installing MSI live update okay so this is their automatic driver update feature MSI live update so they're just giving you some instructions on how to use that let's take it out of the anti-static wrap here and have a look at this very highly anticipated card so here we have it this is the MSI GTX 460 this is a one gig over factory overclocked card featuring their cyclone cooler so the cyclone cooler here's an interesting that I noticed about it and I actually talked about this in my other GTX 460 unboxing is you see the shape of this cooler I called out that it looks a lot like a stock intel reference cooler and what I didn't realize is that why Nvidia is probably using this in their reference design cards is because MSI has been using this exact cyclone heatsink for a couple generations now and it does a really good job now the difference between the cyclone and the stock cooler is a the cyclone doesn't have a shroud so you actually get slightly better performance that way because everything's exposed to the open air in your case and the second thing is that it actually has a couple of heat pipes in addition to the to the fins on the bottom that carry up to a couple more fin banks that are going to benefit from some of the incidental airflow from this fan so it's going to blow down but it's also going to have a lot of air going out this way and that's going to take away a lot of the heat that these heat pipes carry out to the fins on the sides there cameraman is having a nice look at the cooler I mean the cyclone cooler is really one of the big talking points about this card because and I'm going to do some testing on it but MSI's claims are that it is up to fifteen point seven percent quieter under load and also that it will cool much better at that same quieter level that was really awkward okay cools better and is quieter there that's easy it has a 90 millimeter fan so a nine centimeter pwm controlled fan so that means that even at very low speeds it will manage to start itself up which is the problem with non pwm fans it has yeah I think that's pretty much everything else I wanted to say about it okay let's have a look at the card itself this has a PCI Express 16x interface it is sli ready so you can use up to two GeForce GTX 460 cards in SLI and let's see what we've got four output options we have two DVI ports and one mini HDMI port on the back of the card so that means that you do have support for up to three monitors in SLI mode it does support 3d vision surround okay and then okay I'm just going to take that right off in terms of power requirements it's not nearly as power-hungry as many of the other ferny series cards but it still does require two PCI Express six pin connectors on the back so if you're going to run SLI make sure that you've got four of these babies and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say this is the cyclone cooled version of the okay I don't know what camera man is looking at he wants to see the back of the card okay camera man's looking at the back of the card I hope you're enjoying this that's where the GPU is you can deduce that from the fact that Samsung I'm running out of things to talk about here you can deduce that from the fact that there's a bunch of components on the back of the PCB and also that that is where the cooler is positioned on the front of the part thank you for checking out my unboxing of the msi n 460 GTX cycle own one gig Oh see video card