 Two things, first of all I'm going to be unboxing and having a quick look at a palette G-Force GTS250 512 Meg video card and then the second thing is I'm going to talk a little bit about NCIX's Easter Extravaganza which is going to be running for the month of March and is the reason for my ridiculous outfit containing some ridiculous colours, not that I don't normally wear the hat in particular Anyway, first of all why don't we get going on the unboxing, this is a palette video card Palette's big thing is that they always have custom PCBs so that means that they use high quality components for all their power delivery and they say you get better performance out of a palette card because you get better overclocking play it, tweak it, get more out of it, that's their slogan Okay, this is an HDMI card, it has dual link DVI, VGA and HDMI Let's have a look at the back, it's in about 12 different languages and these are all pretty much standard features Why don't we get this thing open and have a look Okay, here we go So we got the video card first but why don't we have a look at the accessories before we really get into the video card itself So the first thing we find is one of those little audio cables that I'm pretty sure nobody uses but it's included just in case Then we have a 2 mole X to 1 PCI Express power adapter So I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that this card needs an external PCI Express power connector Then we have a quick installation guide which I'm just going to look at myself here shows you how to install the drivers it does not include any installation instructions for the hardware aspects of things and I mean really these instructions are mostly irrelevant anyway because you shouldn't be using the included driver CD you should be downloading the latest drivers off Nvidia.com So why don't I put this back inside here and let's get this video card out of the box Just finished watching the men's hockey game where they totally won so I'm just still here in front of the TV that's why I'm kind of in a weird location today Anyway, here's the pallet video card so on the top you find a custom fan and heatsink combination which is very very standard even though it's a non-standard heatsink for a pallet video card because they do all use custom PCBs and coolers on the back we're going to find HDMI, VGA and DVI as advertised then we have an Aero slot we have a slotted cooler here so that means that although this isn't a blower style heatsink you can see that the air can be exhausted in all directions we are going to lose a little bit of the heat out the back of the case via these vents This is a standard PCI Express Oh, this is weird This is a GTS250 but it doesn't have an SLI an SLI connector, look at that there's no SLI, I was about to say it's got your standard SLI connector and PCI Express 16x interface but it only has one of them That's funny, I mean GTS250 can run in SLI mode without a connector and performance probably isn't going to be impacted much but that's still a very strange thing to see on a card of this caliber Anyway, okay, why don't we come around to the back and we see some of the power delivery there you can see it's covered in a giant heatsink that covers most of the video card I'll try and get you a better view of that in a minute and then we have our PCI Express 6x power connector Right here you have the power for the fan Alright, and then I'm going to try and give you a better angle on the heatsink Camera person, I think you can tell me if you've got a good angle there Can you kind of see, okay, so the heatsink covers this much of the video card right here and it's just aluminum fins being blown down on by this fan Alright, if you have a look here you can see that the memory is arranged kind of strangely like it's kind of all bunched in together here and then it kind of, it goes, it's in this sort of a pattern like the old 6800 and 7800 series cards and it's 512 megs overall on this particular video card I wish I could show you more of it but I mean that's all I can really do So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Pallet GTS 250 512 meg and then the code word is eggplant and if you check out the NCIX Easter Extravaganza on ncix.com then you will know why you need the code word eggplant