 This is truly a magnificent box. This is the box for the EVGA classified special edition GeForce GTX 590 and I know I already unboxed a 590 but I had I saw this box in the back and Actually, actually it didn't come in this one. Just keep the camera pointed that way. I'll bring it over I'll bring it over. I saw it in the warehouse and And it was literally in this box and I was like, oh is that a is that a master carton of video cards? Maybe there's like four inside and that warehouse guy was like, no, that's one video card I was like, are you sure? And he's like, yeah, and I'm like, okay Cuz I didn't believe him so I opened it and sure enough it was one video card. So let's unveil it here Dun dun dun Dun dun dun So the first thing we find inside is an EVGA t-shirt made by Hanes So it's not even like your cheap t-shirt. That's a tagless Hanes t-shirt. Let's go ahead and Open that up there. Oh a nice heavy cotton on that too. And what's the size? The size is XL Well that figures it's a little big on me. But you know, I Guess they figure your typical GTX 590 gamers probably an XL Whoo, this is nice That's a really nice mouse pad actually look at that limited edition It's a it's a hard gaming surface got a little bit of flex to it got a nice rubber back So it's not gonna slip anywhere. That's very nice actually nice touch next we have One of those EVGA gaming posters with the skull on it Okay, and we got some more foam here Oh just foam look at that Just foam. Okay, and we'll take out another piece of foam pretty nice piece of foam for what it's worth nice Gray foam. Oh, oh, there's two cards. Oh, no, there's not two cards. Oh, okay I guess you can buy a kit with two cards. Well, this is just the one card kit So we get a nice piece of foam as well as a card Okay, so let's look at the accessories first. We have two six pins and one eight pin But rather two six pins to one eight pin. We've got two of those So if you have an SLI ready power supply that's older and only has four six pin power Six pin PCIe connectors and you will still be able to connect the classifieds to eight pins. We've got a mini display port to full size display port adapter We have a DVI to VGA to HDMI adapter as well as a DVI to VGA adapter and for crying out loud, please don't use VGA on this card Okay attention Please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of two minutes after operation Okay before removing it from your system and here we have it This is the GTX 590 classified limited edition limited edition graphics card You know what? This is actually a little bit different from the reference one. I'll have to you know what? Let me go get my reference card I'll be back in a minute. I'll show you guys So two things okay first of all EVGA's backplate is clearly going to do a better job of cooling the memory than the stock two-piece backplate Because it is a single piece and so it just plain has more surface area. There's no rocket science to it here Okay, second of all EVGA seems to be one of the only graphics card companies that has figured out which way people install graphics cards in their computers So they install them like this which means that all of this text is now right side up for you to read when it's installed in your system Very nice very nice touch EVGA So let's go ahead and turn it over and compare the other side to our reference card, which I think is going to be quite similar Yeah, okay, so now it looks pretty much the same so now I'm going to take my reference card away And we are going to focus on the EVGA classified so This is a 3GIG graphics card It features two GF 110 cores so that is two full-fledged GPUs that are the same as the one that is used in the Nvidia GTX 580 Okay Now they are running on an internal SLI configuration which means that you don't get quite the full performance of two of those chips But you do get the excellent SLI scaling in many titles as well as support for all of Nvidia's key technologies such as CUDA, PhysX Obviously SLI because it's internal but also quad SLI you can actually run two of these bad boys in the same system for even more graphics performance 3D vision as well as 3D vision surround So let's go on a quick tour of the card so here's our SLI finger up here at the top Here is some more text that is right side up when the card is actually installed in your system Here is that little lit GeForce logo so that actually lights up with LEDs and it is functional If there's any kind of problem with your card like if you don't have the right power connectors connected Then it will actually flash so you can tell that there's some kind of a problem I remember the first time I fired up a GTX or rather an 8800 GTX It squealed at me like a pig and I couldn't figure out what the heck was going on but it turned out one of my PCIe adapters wasn't plugged in right And that was the issue So there's our 80mm fan cooling the unisync that you can clearly see down there And then inside the card you can see there's one vapor chamber and two vapor chambers with fins Here on the bottom you see our standard PCIe 16x interface Here at the back of the card you can see some ventilation so that's going to be kicking air out towards the front of your case And then here on the front of the card you see some more ventilation as well as one of the coolest features about this card So the two GTX 580, well remember they're not equivalent because it's the same GPU, has all the same functional units But it's clocked a little bit lower in order to get the power under control for a dual GPU card But it has two GPUs on it which means you can actually drive four displays off of this single card You can run three displays on DVI for Nvidia 3D vision surround off of a single card Isn't that cool? I think that's pretty much it So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the EVGA GTX 590 Classified Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, computer videos and all of that good stuff