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today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the third member of the GTX 400 so up here on top for comparison we'll get more on this later as a GTX 480 but the one we're actually looking at today is the GTX 465 this is a PNY accelerate xlr8 performance Edition card it is okay they have a couple of extra things that are included with their cards that aren't included with others you get two bonus movie downloads and they have a few examples of what you can download Muppets in space The Da Vinci Code SWAT some movie I think it's about counting cards and Rudy so you can may get two bonus movie downloads and then you get a three month subscription to ESEA alright go around to the back and we'll find the basic specs while I start to open the packaging so it is sli ready it has physics support it has 3d vision support just like the GTX 470 and the 480 the biggest difference with the 465 is actually probably on the front yes here only one gig of DDR so that means that compared to its bigger brothers you're gonna have a little bit less room and you're also gonna have a little bit less performance because it does have fewer processing cores so we'll have a quick look at what's included here we've got the Quick Start Guide okay it's pretty much a standard Quick Start Guide shows you how to install a video card then we have the installation disk make sure you download the latest drivers off the Nvidia website their latest fab data is actually really good then you've got a dual molex to one PCIe 6 X connector you have a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter and then you have a DVI to VGA adapter you so you can plug in pretty much every conceivable connector here so the way it's packed is just in little phones here and it's sort of sturdy enough although it's not this was a quick to market card so you don't expect full custom packaging for it and let's have a look so far it looks just like a gtx 470 one big difference that it that it doesn't have especially looking here why don't we compare it to the 480 instead okay so the big first thing we notice compared to the 480 is that it doesn't have the the heatsink surface on the actual front of the card so it doesn't have these heat pipes that as you can see come out of the top of the card leading to more ventilation space as well as this heatsink surface here it does still use a fan blower design so you can see the whole second slot is designed for air flow to be vented by this fan out the front of the case and this fan is completely shrouded in so that it's not going to exhaust any air back this way this takes all the warm air from inside your case cools your card and then blows it out of the back of the case up on the top we find two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors as well as a one inch shorter length compared to the six pin and eight pin on the 480 as well as a one inch longer length the sticker is also rather strongly applied on this one but I'm sure that's just this sample and not representative of all of them the back of them both look the same okay and then let's have a look so this is a standard PCIe 16x card you're gonna find your your standard 16 X PCI Express connector along the bottom that's fairly normal and one thing that you will notice about the 465 especially on these first cards is that it actually has all of the memory chip spots three four five six seven eight oh no I mean hold on maybe it doesn't one two three four five six seven yeah you know what I can't tell how many that is they might have eight it might have 10 it's probably using a GTX a 470 PCB but actually with two theater Ram chip soldered on because it was it was up to the adding partners to design the boards for the 465 it uses a very similar design where the fan has access both at the back and the front of the PCB to fresh air you've got two sli connectors up on the top so if you're going to be running SLI either two-way or 3-way SLI or if you're going to be running 3d vision surround which you need to run SLI in order to use you're gonna need those moving around to the back of the card we've got two DVI ports and one mini HDMI although you can't run three monitors off the card at the same time so that was pretty much all I wanted to say about the PTA PTX PNY GTX 460 5 1 gig graphics card