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so this is my usual thing where I compare the lengths and physical characteristics of a bunch of graphics cards so our featured is your today is the gtx 590 from nvidia this is a dual GF 110 card it is so it's sli on a card we've seen dual GPU cards quite a few times in the past now now these are fully featured GF 1 times these are exactly the same GPUs that you find on a gtx 580 so one of these so you might ask well habit Nvidia managed to put two of those on one card and the answer is that they are actually down clocked well first of all they're binned very carefully for the best possible graphics cards are the chips to put on it and then second they are actually down clocked so they do have less performance than a single gtx 580 but they more than make up for it by having two of them ok so this video card has an 80 millimeter fan in the middle it has heat sinks on either side for each of the GPUs it has three DVI outputs with one mini DisplayPort so those three DVI outputs this is another unique thing about this card allow it to support 3d vision surround or just plain surround off a single card that is 3d displays over DVI so that's pretty cool it does support quad sli because it has one SLI finger and it needs two PCIe a pin power connector so let's just contrast it against these other cards in terms of length it is an 11 inch card so I'll just show you guys that there you go it's an 11 inch cart so you compare that to the radeon HD 6990 which is a one-foot that is a 12 inch card and to the gtx 580 which is only a 10 and a half inch card now the 69 whoops I'm going to wreck my tablecloth here the 69 70 is almost 11 inches and then if we go all the way down into kind of the mainstream cards then we end up with a gtx 560ti and nine inch card so just for contrast you can look at what it would take to fit a gtx 590 in your case versus a gtx 560ti to the mainstream single GPU card now there are other considerations to bear in mind as well this van needs to have a fair amount of clearance around it because with two Fermi's in there there's a fair bit of heat being generated so you need to make sure it has adequate ventilation and yeah that's pretty much where I was going with that you got to make sure it has adequate ventilation you also need to make sure your case has overall adequate air flow in it because half of the heat is going to be exhausted directly into your case out this side and then a fairly substantial amount of it is going to come out into your case this way and then the rest will be exhausted so this is going to kick a fair amount of heat into your case and you got to make sure you have lots of fans to keep things cool thank you for checking out my video on the physical size and characteristics of the gtx 590 dual GPU graphics card from nvidia don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from Iran boxing's review than other computer videos