 This is a video card that's been highly anticipated and has received fantastic reviews across the web. This is the GeForce GTX 460, and this particular version is not your run-of-the-mill GTX 460. Now, I've received a lot of requests over the time that I've been doing my unboxings and blog videos to take a look at cards that don't feature the reference NVIDIA or ATI design. Well, I'm finally doing it. This is another non-reference card. I looked at another one recently. So this features MSI's Cyclone Cooler. It also has their military grade, sorry, military class components. So you can see here that includes the high conductive capacitors, solid capacitors, solid state chokes, as well as no buzz. And this is a really interesting thing for them to call out because I've seen a lot of complaints over the last few years with many high-end cards that as soon as you start to play a game, you hear like a whine or a buzz. And that's from this style of choke. With a solid state choke, a well-built one, and a well-designed PCB, you can eliminate that noise so that if you have a quiet fan, you hear zero noise from your graphics card. So that's something I'm definitely going to take a look at when I actually get this video card out of the box and running. They are also talking about MSI Afterburner, which is a terrific utility co-developed by MSI and Revituner. It's my overclocking utility of choice. You've probably actually seen me use it in a couple of videos, even featuring other brands of graphics cards because it works great. And then let's have a look at what else we've got. Oh, okay. The cameraman wants to look at that for a while. You can pause it if you want to read that, I suppose. You know what? Let's start getting the card out of the box, and then I can talk about some of the other bullet points that make this particular one special. MSI does include a three-year warranty with their graphics cards. And so... Wow, my box fell apart. Look at that. Hopefully they have a warranty on the box, too. Ha ha ha. Wow, I like I unboxed it like more than usual. Huh. Okay. Well, there. You can see the box and it's all of its glory. Just like that. Okay. So let's get the card open here. In terms of accessories, we've got pretty standard fare. We have a DVI to VGA adapter, a DVI to HDMI adapter. We've got two Molex to six-pin PCI Express power adapters. And then we have a graphics card. Now, this is an odd one. Oh, no, there it is. I was going to say there's no driver disc. I don't have to tell you not to use it and to throw it away, but there it is. Throw it away. And then we've got a quick user's guide. So that's going to show you how to install your graphics card, tell you a little bit about it, show you how to install the drivers. Okay. And then the last thing we have here is something about the 460 GTX series. So installing MSI Live Update. Oh, okay. So this is their automatic driver update feature, MSI Live Update. So they're just giving you some instructions on how to use that. Let's take it out of the anti-static wrap here. And have a look at this very highly anticipated card. So here we have it. This is the MSI GTX 460. This is a one gig factory overclocked card featuring their cyclone cooler. So the cyclone cooler, here's an interesting that I noticed about it. And I actually talked about this in my other GTX 460 unboxing. As you see the shape of this cooler, I called out that it looks a lot like a stock Intel reference cooler. And what I didn't realize is that why Nvidia is probably using this in their reference design cards is because MSI has been using this exact cyclone heatsink for a couple generations now, and it does a really good job. Now the difference between the cyclone and the stock cooler is A, the cyclone doesn't have a shroud, so you actually get slightly better performance that way because everything's exposed to the open air in your case. And the second thing is that it actually has a couple of heat pipes in addition to the fins on the bottom that carry up to a couple more fin banks that are going to benefit from some of the incidental airflow from this fan. So it's going to blow down, but it's also going to have a lot of air going out this way, and that's going to take away a lot of the heat that these heat pipes carry out to the fins on the sides there. The cameraman is having a nice look at the cooler. I mean, the cyclone cooler is really one of the big talking points about this card because, and I'm going to do some testing on it, but MSI's claims are that it is up to 15.7% quieter under load, and also that it will cool much better at that same quieter level. That was really awkward. Okay, it cools better and is quieter. There, that's easy. It has a 90mm fan, so a 9cm PWM controlled fan, so that means that even at very low speeds, it will manage to start itself up, which is the problem with non-PWM fans. It has... Yeah, I think that's pretty much everything else I wanted to say about it. Okay, let's have a look at the card itself. This has a PCI Express 16x interface. It is SLI ready, so you can use up to two GeForce GTX 460 cards in SLI, and let's see what we've got for output options. We have two DVI ports, and one mini HDMI port on the back of the card, so that means that you do have support for up to three monitors in SLI mode. It does support 3D vision surround. Okay, and then, okay, I'm just going to take that right off. In terms of power requirements, it's not nearly as power hungry as many of the other Fermi series cards, but it still does require two PCI Express 6-pin connectors on the back, so if you're going to run SLI, make sure that you've got four of these babies, and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say. This is the cyclone-cooled version of the... Okay, I don't know what cameraman's looking at. He wants to see the back of the card. Okay, cameraman's looking at the back of the card. I hope you're enjoying this. That's where the GPU is. You can deduce that from the fact that... See, I'm running out of things to talk about here. You can deduce that from the fact that there's a bunch of components on the back of the PCB, and also that that is where the cooler is positioned on the front of the card. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the MSI N460 GTX Cyclone 1Gig OC video card.