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today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 570 so this is a reference board which means that we're gonna find pretty much the same specs as every other GeForce GTX 570 on the market so let's go over the basics of what all of that means first of all we have 1.2 8 gigabytes of video memory so that is slightly less than the GeForce GTX 580 although that's not the only way that it is slightly reduced from the spec of the GTX 580 I mean given the price difference you'd have to expect there's a couple things that are not quite as good first of all we have a 320 bit memory interface and we also have a slightly fewer functional units so that is CUDA cores on this card versus the 580 now we've gone full support for invidious technologies including cuda physx sli 3d vision surround all of that good stuff and ZOTAC you get a lifetime warranty in the USA and canada and i'm actually not sure what their warranty is in some of the other territories although i know that we do have viewers from those places so i wish i could tell you guys maybe there will be some details about that inside out here actually why don't we have a look at what ZOTAC has to say about themselves on the back DirectX 11 we've got support for end gaming play in 3d I guess this is stuff we've pretty much covered already oh yeah power supply requirements I don't think I talked about that before looks like we don't have anything on this side mm-hmm nothing let's see over here okay power supply minimum 550 water greater power supply with at least 38 amps on the 12 volt rail and all of the other like here here's something I don't get AMD Athlon XP Class processor or higher show me an Athlon XP motherboard with the PCI Express slot yeah good luck that's sort of dumb since you can't even install this on one like that why would they have that on the minimum I don't get it okay let's have a look at what we've got inside in terms of accessories so first of all I think we're gonna find some stuff under there hey cool we get a game Prince of Persia The Forgotten fans so a permanent internet connection is required to play this game I actually know nothing about this game I'm just gonna make sure there's no like cereals on the back of it or anything that you guys can pilfer all right so there you go you get a game cool you get an installation CD as well as a case sticker so I'll throw away the installation CD download the latest drivers from Nvidia calm you get a little warning sticker please allow the graphics card to cool after operation before removing it from your system okay then we also get a little coupon code thing so you can get a couple discounts on be reveal for sharpening your high-definition videos as well as Nero vision extra excellent and then a couple other things that I guess work with GeForce CUDA all right then we have and extend oh hey here's the warranty details so there you are five years warranty Europe Middle East and a pack lifetime warranty in USA Mexico Canada and Latin America all right user's manual probably telling you how to install it how to install the drivers all that good stuff not gonna dwell on that for too long here we have accessories so we've got two molex to 6-pin PCI II adapters we have one HTML this is interesting mini HDMI to HDMI but it's like at a 90 degree angle here so look at that I wonder why they've gone and done that so here hold on now I have to now I have to figure out why they've opted to include one that's shaped like this so in a typical case you would install it like that okay so it'd be this way and then the HDMI comes up this way I guess it's so that you don't interfere with something like right here above the the top of the PCI bracket or something interesting alright maybe there's a reason like that would make it fit better with some cases that they've gone with that right angle adapter and then finally we've got a DVI to VGA adapter a little please do yourself a favor if you don't already have a DVI monitor and you're buying this graphics card please get one all right so ZOTAC sticker design features they're like ZOTAC guy and he seems to be meditating with his glowing eyes and as well as the zotac line showing that they do have a heartbeat apparently camera man has lost interest in the sticker so we're gonna go around to the back of the card where you'll find not a whole lot to look at there then we will move to the top of the card where you will find here I'll let me just flip this over where you'll find a ZOTAC sticker as well as little GeForce branding as well as two 6-pin PCI II power connectors we've also bought a ventilation hole here so you are going to be exhausting just a little bit of air into your case but the majority of it is going to go out the back through these exhaust vents here we've got two DVI ports as well as one mini HDMI port which we've talked about a fair bit already and then we will also find two sli connectors compatible with 2-way as well as 3-way SLI on the back of the board you can see that it is identical in every way to the GTX 580 PCB including even solder points for the extra two pins on the eight pin power connector on the 580 as well as solder points for the extra memory that the GTX 580 has located here so we've got a standard PCI Express 16 X graphics card connection at the bottom and I think that covers pretty much everything there is to say about the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 570 so in summary with ZOTAC you get your extra game you get the lifetime warranty and I believe they also have I believe they have a pretty good support system with their live chat thing although I don't think they've mentioned that on the box anywhere but if you check out their site they've actually got like you can chat with a customer service representative at any time and they were quite responsive when I tried it so don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings and other videos about computer stuff