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today's unboxing is an exciting one this is the MSI n5 60 GTX TI Twin Frozr 2 and as you may or may have not have figured out by now this is based on the geforce gtx 560 TI GPU from nvidia this is a one gig graphics card and it is a very special one because at the time of filming this video anyway it looks like the best price to performance I mean really high performance gaming graphics card on the market now NVIDIA has actually even brought out the ti designation we've haven't seen that for a very long time when we saw it on one of Nvidia's best-selling GeForce series ever the geforce 4000 TI series so the 4200 TI was the big one back in the day and that was wow DirectX 8 so we're up to DirectX 11 with this GPU we also have support for all of invidious technologies so let's have a look at them they're all listed up here we've got GeForce CUDA nvidia sli this supports 2-way SLI physics by nvidia as well as nvidia 3d vision now there's a couple other things on here as well msi afterburner is has a little badge on the box too great little overclocking utility works on not only MSI cards but other ones too as well as it being ready for 3d mark 11 I guess that's one way of saying that it is DirectX 11 ready 3d mark 11 is also included with this card for with the value of 20 bucks that's kind of cool it has a three year warranty in the US Canada and Mexico and let's see what else they have to say for the alright yeah this is a twin frozer 2 cards so what that means is that we have MSI's famous twin frozer two cooler on this instead of the stock cooler so I'll show you guys a little comparison against the stock cooler in a bit so they're saying up to 20 degrees cooler it also features military class 2 so you've got all of MSI's military class there we go it's finely focused technology included on this board it is a custom PCB board ok and it is an overclocked card so we've got voltage adjustment and see what else MSI has to say for himself so here they're giving us some more details about their military class once up which i think is just great because I found that on military class cards I've actually noticed less less squealing because of the higher quality components that are being used and what MSI also has to say for themselves is that it's more efficient delivers more current and is going to last longer here's another little plug for MSI Afterburner which is my personal favorite and here's some media comments about the Twin Frozr - I hear some more information about twin fros or - as well as a sneak peek of the card which you can't really see because of the anti-static bag but direct contact design with the heat pipes dual pwm fans okay nickel plated copper base dual super pipes I'll show you the super pipe so there's actually four total heat pipes and then two super pipes high-density heatsink and here's a little thermal comparison against the reference claw though I don't know how relevant that is because I think this box has probably been reused from the 460 twin frozer so either way it suffice to say the Twin Frozr 2 is usually a much better performer than the stock cooler on pretty much anything alright DirectX 11 support okay most of this we've covered already how or we will cover once we get it opened up minimum system requirements okay PCIe 16x yep two 6-pin PCI II power connectors and a minimum 500 watt or greater power supply those are probably the most important bits this is a 1 gig card so it has 1,024 Meg's of video memory and that's finally yes finally 3 minutes and 40 seconds in get the box opened up alright so first thing as usual for me is accessories so MSI's boxes I'm used to them now down on the bottom is where we find all the accessories so here's our quick user's guide here is a driver disk don't use this download the latest version ha download the latest version now we have a DVI to VGA adapter in case you're still using a VGA monitor and then we also have a mini HDMI if we can get it to focus to regular HDMI out adapter here's 3d mark 11 and just for one lucky viewer I am going to give away my copy of 3d mark 11 so I'm going to scratch this off and whoever gets this first you are now the proud owner of 3d mark 11 advanced edition Oh hold on that's somewhat obscured there we go all right congratulations okay next we have the 560 GI series something about their live updates so you can use that to update your drivers and whatnot and finally we have a few more accessories and then we're going to have a look at the sexy gtx 560 TI graphics card so to dual molex to PCIe 610 power adapters although as I so frequently say if you don't have a proper power supply to run this card with a couple PCIe 6 with a couple PCIe 6 pin powers then you should probably be looking at a power supply upgrade as well a balanced system is a happy system all right let's get this anti-static bag out of here and I have a feeling at this time that this card is going to look very similar to our old friend the GTX 460 ha there's a little bird told me that it might actually be using the same overall PCB layout so first thing I'm going to do is compare it to the GTX 460 Hawk side-by-side or rather top to bottom okay so you can see they are both using the same edition of the Twin Frozr to heatsink so I'll show you the super pipes here on the bottom of the 560 Ti you see how two of them the ones that go out further away from the GPU core which is in the middle are actually thicker than the others so those are the super pipes the reason they're thicker --zz they carry heat more efficiently that way and they have further to go so that's why msi made the design decision to make those ones the outermost key pipes okay so let's have a look at the top of the part here you can see some memory chips down there you can also see some other components you can see the the termination ends of those heat pipes so there are the fat ones on the on the outside and the skinny ones on the inside there all right you can see some MSI Twin Frozr to branding on the top of that heatsink let's flip it over see what the back has to say for itself so here I'm going to get this out of my way so that it's not not here anymore alright let's take off these protective covers so I've never quite understood I mean it comes pretty well packed I don't think that these are really necessary but they're there one way or the other so no sense complaining about it so here we will find our SLI bridge as I mentioned before this card supports only 2-way SLI otherwise you'd need two bridges for three-way and four-way SLI you've also got on the back of the cart the location of the GPU you can see where all the memory is soldered on you can see where all of the connectors are soldered on you can see that does use a standard PCI Express 16x 2.0 data connection and then also on the back you can see where the power connectors are soldered so let's move around to the back of the cart and that is where we will find two PCIe 6 pin power connectors as mentioned before now the wiring of the fans is a little bit custom because there's one mount here or rather one plug here and then it's going to go up here where it splits into two and then powers each fan individually let's have a look at the connectors we've got on the back here so we've got our mini HDMI as well as dual DVI you can see the backplate actually has some ventilation slots so you can see by the design of the cooler there so this has a bit of a there's a bit of a shroud thing going on here so some of the exhaust from this fan is going to go out the back of the card but most of it is going to go through and then be exhausted out here and down on the bottom and what that means is that if you are running a twin fros or two card you will get better GPU temps guaranteed versus a stock cooled part but you should make sure you have adequate case airflow to move that heat out of your case because it's not going to be exhausting it externally so two more things before we wrap up here I want to do the quick PCB comparison against the GTX 460 Hawk and see if I can notice any differences so actually well here you guys can always pause and help me well here's one here's one the 460 Hawk has the GP UV switches on it okay whereas the GP UV switches are actually not present okay because remember this is not a hawk addition card even though it appears to be using a hawk PCB oh there's also there's also another change here this little component is here but it's not here now the gtx 560 GPU while it is a different GPU then the one powering the GTX 460 it has more pipes it is more optimized however it is pin compatible so that's why MSI was able to release an aftermarket PCB 560 Ti so quickly because they were able to pretty much drop it onto the PCB looks like they were able to make a couple minor changes see here's another one here there's one component here when there is not one on the GTX 460 Hawk and that's pretty much all the changes that really pop out to me right now oh yeah no here's one so this is on the hawk and this is not here interesting I'm no electrical engineer so I can't tell you what all of that means but here I'm going to bring my 560 Ti back I'm going to put my 460 walk away and then I'm going to bring up a regular reference NVIDIA GTX 560 so how do these guys compare well you can see the reference one has a single eighty millimeter fan whereas the hawk has dual 92 millimeter fans the reference one does have an external exhaust design although oh no it's not external exhaust so it's about half and a half so it's probably going to be exhausting a little bit more than the twin throws or two so you can see there's ventilation here but it's not going to be all it's not going to be exhausting nearly everything not even half and half because you can see there's more ventilation holes here and more in the top so it's going to be kicking most of the heat out into the case as well Twin Frozr - I would definitely expect to perform better although I haven't had a chance to test it yet but I will you can see that the reference cooler hold on sorry I'm moving it so that I can see better the reference cooler looks to have three copper heat pipes as well as a flower heatsink design kind of like Intel's reference LGA 1155 heatsink okay the PCB layout is probably going to be very very different yes it looks very very different already maybe not that different pretty different though versus the hawk PCB that the GTX 560 TI overclocked from MSI has borrowed you can see that this PCB is actually slightly longer than the hawk PCB that MSI is using and other than that I guess that's all the physical comparisons that I wanted to make they're both dual slot coolers of course very few performance single slot cards these days thank you for checking out my unboxing of the gtx 560 TI 1 gig overclocked card from msi one thing I also should mention before I wrap up here is that this card is overclocked to 580 megahertz on the core that is versus a rather 880 megahertz on the core versus 822 on the reference card as well as 4.2 gigahertz on the RAM versus about 4 gigahertz on the NVIDIA reference card