 I Want to see something funny I bet if I go like this you can see crazy Russian So he wanted me to say that this is point eight five gigahertz which it is This is the EVGA GTX 580 FTW hydro Copper to so it is for the win which means that it is an EVGA's highest tier of overclocked Highly binned chips. Okay, so it's a for the win is hydro which means that it uses Liquid cooling it is copper which should be fairly self-explanatory And it is too So it must be the second one So the first thing we see on the front of the box is that EVGA is the number one seller of Nvidia based Products in the u.s. They're very proud of that and so they should be we have 3d vision surround support physX direct 11 SLI CUDA a bunch of stuff that's not on here Even three-way and four-way SLI is supported by this particular card Let's see what EVGA has to say for themselves on the back It does support their precision tool for overclocking as well as their free OC scanner So this precision in particular is a very very useful little little feature. We have full support for 3d vision Including 3d vision surround. Okay, so I did mention that before I didn't think I did but actually I had already Alright, let's open this up and we've got some seals to break here That is something that I do like to do Just got that run in the background there, okay Let's break the seal and have a look at this very fast very expensive Graphics card so it comes in a sleeve. This is more of a traditional older style video card box All right, then it comes in a box which will contain Nothing there. Maybe this was here. Maybe this was also here. Maybe these are supposed to be here See, let's try it like this and see if that works better See what if I opened it like that Okay, that doesn't really maybe that's why they didn't put them in there All right pose clamps and barbs are provided to properly position the barbs and stop fittings follow the diagram below Okay, I'll explain that in a minute All right, we got one of those posters. I've shown you guys this a number of times, but I guess I'll show you again. Oh, no, wait Oh, no, it's the same old one. Never mind the skull. There you go The skull there you go Okay, so let's just close mr. Skull back up here and There we are Okay, the next thing we find inside is a bunch of useless stuff Basically, that's how to install a graphics card in a PCIe slot and a driver disc, which you shouldn't use You should download the latest off Nvidia comm next. We have our mini HDMI to HDMI cable This is great because it means that if you plug in a full-size HDMI cable, you will not Interfere with the DVI slot that is next over we have a dual six pin PCIe to eight pin PCIe adapter And a dual molex to six pin PCIe adapter just in case the power supply does not have native support for this card We've got a DVI to VGA adapter. Seriously, you should not be using that VGA out on a card of this caliber just buy yourself a new monitor already. Okay next we have barbs All right, so for those of you who aren't familiar with water cooling we got a few different things here We have two one half inch stubby fittings barb fittings Okay, so what makes them stubby is that they're shorter than a traditional longer barb. Okay, what makes them half inch is the outer diameter of the flange here on the barb and They got o-rings in here to make sure that they don't leak. These are g1 quarter threaded So they will be compatible with this and most other blocks on the market. You've also got 3 8s barbs So these are for if you are running at 3 8s tubing inside your water cooling loop I actually use 3 8s tubing So these are the ones that I would use in theory, but I would probably upgrade them to compressions instead of barbs These are stop fittings. So stop fittings go everywhere where you don't put a barb So let's explain that diagram real quick here Okay, so you can either put them in this way So you see the stop fittings there so the water flows in around the loop blah blah blah blah blah and then comes out here Or you can go this way so it's in from the top and then go and comes out this way So basically the stop fittings have to always go opposite wherever you put a barb so that it doesn't just flow straight through without passing through the block to cool the GPU and the RAM and everything because This is a full cover block Ways about oh wow that's heavy. They weren't kidding when they said it was made of copper So full cover blocks cool not only the GPU itself which used to be how we did video card water cooling But also the memory power delivery all of that good stuff full cover blocks are pretty much the shizzle I'm a big fan of full cover blocks, and I do run one in my own system at home. I Actually did a video where I showed you guys how to install a full cover block It's a bit of a process so there is definitely something to be said for buying a card like this from EVGA which is been higher than most GTX 580s and Also comes equipped with a water block right out of the box which means you don't have to install it You don't have to worry about any complications with your warranty from installing it not to say EVGA won't warranty you if you install A different card, but you know if you break it, and it's your own fault. They certainly won't be able to help you right So here we go. We've got a nickel plated copper base With more plastic on it there we are this is made by Swift tech you can see here powered by Swift tech It has a Delrin top now Delrin has the advantage of being more durable than acrylic So acrylic and Delrin are the two main materials that you see used for the tops of blocks it is less Liable to crack where you insert the barb so here. I'm gonna throw a 3 1⁄8 inch barb in there, okay? Oh One of the other things of note about this card is it is single slot check that out, so there's your mini HDMI There's your DVI. There's your DVI, and there's your custom single slot PCI bracket so that is a pretty awesome thing which means you could in theory I mean if you were doing like a folding rig install as many as What like what's the highest number six would be like a classified sr2 6 PCIe 16x slots? Seven seven okay, this is the BS evolution okay You can install a whole lot of these in one system at a time should you so desire although you'd have to get some custom Fittings these ones wouldn't quite work if you were putting cards right next to each other. Let's have a look at the back So it does include EVGA's back plate for the GTX 580. This is not a custom PCB 580 It's just a very highly binned one that has a custom cooler and a custom back plate on it So you can see we've got little holes for ventilation here And it's also making contact probably with some of the key components on the back that do need to be cooled or maybe it's just For looks do you making contact with anything? Maybe this just for looks I actually don't know interesting okay We've got two SLI fingers with support for two-way three-way and four-way SLI On the bottom we find our standard PCIe 16x slot interface and moving over back to the front We can just kind of look at the card some more because it's a very very slick slim Sexy looking card looks great That's pretty much all there is to it. It's like awesome. Oh, yeah, 8 pin and 6 pin PCIe power connectors are needed for this particular board and Just so you guys know you will need water cooling You will need a water cooling setup in order to run this card You can't just buy this if you don't already have liquid cooling So you're gonna want a pump a radiator a reservoir and some fans in order to make this fun function I think that's pretty much it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the GTX 580 FTW Hydro copper 2 don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and also when you are Fastening your barbs don't overdo it They should be kind of once it starts to get snug turn it maybe another quarter to half of a turn and that is pretty Much it you don't want to rip the threads out just my little water cooler Tip for you guys for the day point 85 gigahertz