 So today we're going to be having a look at the GeForce GTX 460 1G. But there's something here that you need to make a note of. This is the SE, which in computer terms it usually stands for slightly reduced edition. So the GTX 460 1G SE actually performs at low resolutions similarly to the GTX 460 768M, but performs a little bit better at higher resolutions. So it's a bit of an oddball part and not all of the Nvidia board partners even came out with one. This is a gigabyte card by the way. And so all of the board partners were given free reign. There's no reference design so they were given free reign to design it however they wanted. So this is the gigabyte version. That's what we're going to be having a look at today. Let's start with the packaging. It is like all GeForce GTX 460s, 3D vision ready, Cuda ready, SLI ready, PhysX ready, all of that good Nvidia stuff. This particular one comes factory overclocked. So in terms of that performance you may find it performs a little bit better than a normal GTX 460 SE. Okay, mind you, you could do that overclocking yourself. It has a three year warranty in the US and Canada. It comes with their WindForce air anti-turbulence cooling cooler, which we're going to have a look at once we get this opened up, as well as Ultra Durable VGA, which has all of these things going for it. Ultra Durable is a bit of a carryover from Gigabyte's motherboard technology. Here we see it has one gig of GDDR5 256 bit memory interface. That other stuff we already pretty much talked about. And what else do we have here? Oh, okay, they're going to give us some more explanation of the anti-turbulence cooling WindForce. So 2X anti-turbulence inclined fins. Okay, the latest cooling. Gigabyte understands the fan is crucial to the graphics card, so only the fan with the most efficiency is select for WindForce. So quiet PWM fans, anti-turbulence inclined fins, okay. Peer copper heat pipes. Okay, so they're saying it's silent and helps heats can spread effectively from hot areas. All right, let's get this card opened up and have a look. I'm tired of looking at the box. I think I'm zoomed in right now. There we go. All right, the GTX 460 SE. The first thing we will find inside is a user's manual and multilingual installation guide, as well as a driver disc. Throw the driver disc away. Keep the installation guide just in case you need it. Next, we have two Molex, so dual Molex, two single six-pin PCIe adapters. Although I'll go with my usual recommendation that if you're buying a graphics card that requires two PCIe six pins, you should probably have a power supply that already has them. We have a mini HDMI, two HDMI adapter. So I guess we can assume that the card is going to have mini HDMI. We also have a DVI to VGA adapter if you are still using a VGA monitor. It looks like the packaging has been repurposed a little bit from a longer graphics card, since you can see there's quite a bit of space at the end of the 460 SE. OK, just a regular piece of tape holding the anti-static bag on. Open that up. OK, so we find a characteristic, although I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to say that, because some of their new motherboards feature matte black PCBs. I can't really talk about those yet, but they look so nice. Anyway, we see a characteristic blue gigabyte PCB on the other side. Actually, let's flip it around this way first. So we've got those two six pin PCIe connectors for power. Here's the inclined thin, what's it called? Wind force. Yes, wind force cooler, which actually looks pretty sweet. It's got like a nice shiny Darth Vader-esque sort of black going on here. Very, very glossy. I really like it. And then we've got a couple of what appear to be 60 millimeter. Oh, those can even. No, I think those are 80 millimeter fans. You know, it's funny. GIGABYTE actually doesn't specify on the outside of their box. That's a very strange thing. You'd think they would. You'd think they'd mention something like that. But yeah, those look like 80 millimeter fans. And then we have two nice big heat pipes going from the actual GPU core, which hopefully you can see down there, out to the very ends of the wind force EX. Now, what they mean by anti-turbulence, I'm just going to try to figure out a little bit. I think what they mean is the way that the fins are inclined, they're not actually quite flat. So they're inclined this way. And then you can see the fans compared to the card. I hope you can see that are actually inclined a little bit, too. So I think the idea is that it's rather than the air like kind of slamming into a surface right away, it's more like a gradual approach to it. And it lets it kind of cut through it rather than just creating more noise and more, well, their turbulence. That's my theory anyway. I could be wrong. It's happened before. All right. So here we are on the top of the card where we find an SLI finger. I see so many people commenting on my channel. Well, what if you run GTX 460 and three way SLI? Well, you can't because there's only a single SLI figure, a finger. That goes for ATI cards or AMD cards as well. If there's only a single connector, you can only run two way multi GPU configurations. If you have two of those connectors, you can run three or even four way and that's driver dependent. But yeah, if there's only one, you can only run two way. So here we have our mini HDMI, which they have an included adapter for. Then we have two DVI ports. We also have a vented, whoa, dropped a card, vented PCI backplate. So you're not going to get a whole lot of exhaust out of there based on the design of this cooler. So you can see there's air is going to come out this way and it's going to kind of hit that. It's not really going to go out there. So I would consider this to be a largely internal exhaust cooling design, although you will get a little bit of incidental airflow coming out of the case. You're going to be spitting most of the hot air back into your case. It's not a big deal. It is a nice, efficient cooler. And as long as you have good case fans and a well ventilated computer, you're not going to be running into too many problems. PCI E16X standard slot. I don't know if I mentioned that yet, but I think that pretty much covers it. So the GTX 460 SE, like I mentioned, is a one gig card, but it is slightly cut down from the actual regular one gig card, putting it in the performance range of a 768 meg card. So why would you want this? Well, I guess the answer is if you're running at high resolution, and you don't want to buy the fully fledged one gig card, or if you're running kind of like older games that don't require quite as fast of GPU, but you want to run like third party texture packs, stuff like that, you need the extra video memory, this is the card for you. So don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.