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today we are going to be doing an unboxing of 800 CR TG 5.56 millimeter blank M 200 m 27 link okay no we're not actually unboxing bullets this is just the case that's something top-secret from Nvidia arrived in so by the time I released this video to you guys it won't really be top secret anymore but here we go dear valued editor we are excited to announce our new GeForce GTX 590 equipped with a 1024 cuda cores which is double what you find on the GTX 580 so that's your first hint that this is a dual GPU card and then advanced 384 bit gddr5 memory interface with three gigs of memory which once again is double how much memory there is on the GTX 580 the GTX 590 has the horsepower to drive today's cutting edge DX 11 games across three 3d displays which is another hint that this is a dual GPU card because no single GPU Nvidia card can drive three displays at the same time and in here you will find some interesting things ok there is apparently a GTX 590 dog tag that is hilarious it is personalized line of sebastian tech tips first vision alright alright what else is in here USB dog tag with art assets suitable for print and web publication so why don't we find that in there USB ok so there's some packing materials because based on the the outer shell of this packaging it's pretty obvious that indeed Nvidia didn't want to risk any potential damage to their new crown jewel the DC X 590 okay well I can't find that so what I do have is this at any rate and here is the 590 card itself so this is obviously not a proper retail box unboxing but it will serve its purpose of giving me a chance to tell you guys about the part itself and about the overall layout of it about some of the specs because even now I haven't heard all of the final specs yet for this card even though the physical card itself has arrived so the first thing we're going to do is I have a look at the fan so you can see right here the fan design they're using actually reminds me of a back way back in the day the 7800 GTX the sudden weight Nova said no it was a 7900 GTX that used a center fan like this didn't it Nick - no no the GTX did too 7900 GTX yeah yeah no the 7950 DX - used that dual PCB weird thing okay so the 7900 GTX used a center fan like this with exhaust going both out the back of the card as well as out the front of the card although that was a much much lower powered card back in the day anyway there that's pretty much what I'm trying to tell you guys there's a fan here you can actually see the two vapor chamber coolers on the GPUs themselves so maybe if I move this can you see in there pretty good yeah okay so you can see the copper plate at the bottom that is a vapor chamber and then you can also see the aluminum fins on top and if I turn it the other way you should be able to see the one on the other GPU so the 2gf 100 GPUs are actually on @gf 110 sorry GF 100 was GTX 480 GF 110 is GTX 580 so the 2 GF 110 GPUs are on either side of this fan all right and you can all know there's also more you can see here you can also see that there's kind of a Yuna sync thing going on so there's some gaps where presumably I guess that's room for some air to flow under the unison but you can also see there's little heat sink little heat sink pieces here if I spin this a little bit I know it's not good but then you should be able to see it a little better there's also little pins on the heatsink that are obviously for cooling under this fan so this card does use a custom PCI Express a PCI Express chip in order to get maximum bandwidth to both of these GPUs and in terms of memory let's see actually where they've got that position so it looks like okay here you can actually see some of the memory here on the on the front of that or on the by I guess at the bottom the top the top of the PCB let's call this the top and then there are also cooling plates on the back where presumably there's going to be more memory on the back of the PCB okay on the back we can also see an overflow of vrm circuitry so this is a very high power consumption card I can tell you guys that right off the bat like any dual GPU card a lot of engineering goes into putting to high-end cards and essentially what is a very similar form factor to a single high-end Fermi based card so let's go ahead and have a look at what we've got for power here so we've got 2 8 pins that are delivering power to this board and moving along to the other side of the top you can see we do have an SLI bridge so this GPU based on this is presumably Quad SLI capable which means you can run two of these four for total GPUs within your system don't forget you can't run more than that because it is a driver limitation so that is pretty much how it works on the back of the card we find some pretty interesting display output so we've actually got three DVI outputs and what appears to be there's only only one way to check for sure I happened to have a mini display for ya that appears to be a mini DisplayPort output as well so you can see nvidia has dedicated as much as possible of the back pci bracket to exhaust and they've left they've left space here but they've also left space in the top of the card much like they did with the GTX 580 for some of that exhaust to come out now moving around to the back of the card you can see it's a much lower restriction sort of area so all of the airflow coming out of this fan so about half of it is going to go to cool the 1gp about half of its going to go to the pool the other is going to be blown out the back of the card here so that's something you're going to have to bear in mind when you're cooling your system with a video card like this in it is that you're going to want to make sure that instead of having okay let's say here example let's say you're running Quad SLI with GTX 590 s and you've got air being blown out of the case which is great out the top of the card which is fine and then out this way well what about your bottom GPU that's going to be blowing towards your front intake fans on your case so you might have to rethink your airflow strategy and potentially change it so that that front fan is may be blowing out instead just just change the way you you do your airflow so that you're not fighting the direction that this video card is pushing heat rather pulling the heat away from it to make sure that it's getting ample cooling it runs off of a standard PCI Express 2.0 16x interface so that means that each DP you has from the slot anyway at least 8 X worth of bandwidth I would not recommend running a card like this on anything lower than a PCIe 16x interface for maximum performance although that sounds like an interesting thing to test down the road find out exactly how much slot bandwidth a dual GPU gf1 10 card requires as I mentioned before it does have three gigs of graphics memory and it is fully compliant this I haven't mentioned yet with all of them videos latest technologies including cuda physx 3d vision and video surround we've got three displays out of one card here all DVI so you don't need any adapters or anything to run off your DVI monitors as well as 3d vision surround so every one of these DVI ports is fully capable of driving up to 120 Hertz up to 1920 by 1080 actually 1920 by 1200 at 120 Hertz although most displays are 1080p in the 23 to 24 inch range these days so thank you for checking out this unboxing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos