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so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing that's not really relevant from a from a product standpoint but it's more interesting because it marks the reintroduction of the pallet brand back into North America now pallet was around in Europe and Asia for a long time they've been very successful there and they tried about a year ago in North America and eventually ended up pulling out and their cards kind of disappeared from the shelves but now they're back and bigger than ever and so I've got a pallet gtx 260 here it's a 216 stream process or 260 with 896 Meg's of RAM 448 bit interface with that Ram etc etc etc one cool thing that it does have is a H and a HDMI and HDMI output now palettes big value add is that they are at him this is a sonic overclocking edition their thing is play at tweak it get more out of it they claim that their cards because they never use reference designs they always design their own PCBs they say that you can get more overclocking and more performance out of their cards versus with another manufacturer now my camera person just showed up so if I could get them to grab the camera and let's have a look at what we will find inside the box for the pallet 260 yeah awesome thank you so first we will find inside this huge box they keep the phone okay there you go there's your phone author next in terms of accessories we will find a DVI to HDMI adapter oh no this is not that thing this is an HDMI to DVI adapter slightly different so that you can take the HDMI port that is present on the card and you can make this into a dual DVI card very clever okay but I'm not done with the accessories yet so now we have a two molex to one PCI Express power adapter they only give you one I guess because this card only has one connector as my guest but we'll find out later when we actually look at the card we're not looking yet and this is one this seems to be one of those little audio adapters or something yeah ground and not doesn't tell me what the other ones for that's terrific it's not labeled but I think it's the little audience okay so then we'll take out this huge piece of foam which is like very well packed you can see this is really good quality foam here okay inside we will find a quick installation guide and a driver disk Wow I don't think I've seen compact discs written out like that in years that is terrific okay quick installation guide from Nvidia do-do-do-do-do install the driver okay that's all pretty straightforward budget Wow it even has Romanian in here you can tell they're a global company when all the languages that are present in that installation so let's have a look at the cart itself the first thing the very first thing you'll notice about it is what I said before this is not a reference card folks so pal it takes a lot of pride in designing their own PCBs for NVIDIA GeForce graphics solutions so you can see this one has a dual fan solution over what appears to be three heat pipes running along the core of this video card and then running up into can you see that can you see that okay run then running up into the fins that are cooled by these fans now this fan right here if you look down into it this way can you can you see in there very well yeah so you can see that this fan is not entirely dedicated to cooling the heat pipes in the fins and actually a lot of the air is shunted off this way so that it'll cool the voltage regulators which are over here and have a very nice that's just a nice looking card actually have them has a nice heatsink on it over here all right so let's have a look let's see okay first of all red PCB on the back that is a bright red PCB very distinctive looking now you can tell one thing about palette they do not allow you to remove your stock cooler to keep your warranty so that's a difference from some of the other manufacturers like EVGA and XFX who do allow you to remove it you've got your two fingers for SLI on the back alright you got your standard PCI Express 16x connector alright so let's move around to the top where we will find two 6-pin adapter so I guess they only give you our two to adapt ders to 6-pin PCI Express plug so I guess they only give you one because they figure if you're actually using a power supply that doesn't have at least one PCI Express connector on you probably ought not be running this card all right so the top here you can see that they've left and opens I'll open open slot here so that the fans will blow air out of the card this way so they're actually blowing air out this way blowing air out this way and blowing air out this way so there's not going to be a lot of air restriction in this cooler I really like that okay so you can see at the back we've got this is a dual slot card so you've got vents here and then you've also got HDMI VGA and DVI and they've given you that handy HDMI to DVI connector so if you don't have an HD I'm HDMI monitor you can just use dual DVI quite easily Wow look at that so you got more ventilation coming out the bottom so this will actually blow air onto your motherboard components under the video card that is swell because so many video cards overlook this and do not provide any cooling to that area under there that gets almost no airflow whatsoever so I think that pretty much covers my unboxing of the geforce gtx 260 from pallet this is a sonic edition and this is a sonic condition of tech tips or something thank you for checking out my video blog and i'll talk to you later awkward