 So it may seem like cameraman has pointed the camera in the wrong direction. It may seem that way. But in actuality, he's looking for hawks. So, you know, scanning the sky, all that good stuff. But, he would be more likely to find a hawk if he had a look at the box that I'm opening up right here. This is the MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk. Yes. So this has a few things going for it over the GTX 560 Twin Frozr 2. So if you remember on the 460, the hawk version of the card featured a Twin Frozr 2 cooler. Well, the hawk version of the GTX 560 one-ups that and features a Twin Frozr 3 cooler with propeller blades. So MSI claims up to 20% more airflow with a propeller blade versus a standard bladed fan. We also get a copy of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, which presumably is a Tomb Raider game? I don't know. I haven't even heard of this game before. Okay. Ready for 3DMark 11, so that means it is DirectX 11. It has 1GB of GDDR5. It has...oh, nice! It has mini HDMI! Woo! Mini HDMI, I'm sure is what they meant to say. As well as dual DVI-I, GeForce CUDA, Nvidia SLI, PhysX by Nvidia, Nvidia 3D Vision, as well as Nvidia Surround if you install two of these bad boys, 3-year warranty in US, Canada and Mexico. And opening up the box, we've got all of those exclusive MSI features, such as military class 2, using tantalum core capacitors, solid capacitors, as well as super ferrite chokes, all of which are designed to stabilize the GPU more, make it last longer, and make it run cooler. We've also got triple overvoltage by Afterburner. This is a hawk exclusive feature. So you can now adjust the auxiliary voltage as well as the core and memory voltages in Afterburner. 8 plus 1 phase PWM design, which delivers more peak current than the GTX 560 Ti... Oh, okay. And definitely more than the reference one, so I'm assuming they're talking about the 560 Ti TwinFrozer 2. PS switch, okay, so you can switch between performance and silence. This is kind of like the cooler that was on the Intel Extreme Edition latest generation cooler that came out with their 6 cores. V-check points, which we're used to seeing on hawk edition cards, so you can measure your voltages directly. Alright, so the TwinFrozer 3 cooler is a high-density heatsink with propeller blades, uses multiple heat pipes, a nickel-plated copper base, as well as a direct contact design. Here we go. So they're saying it absolutely smokes the reference cooler, which it probably does, because the TwinFrozer series of coolers has an excellent reputation for utterly demolishing any reference cooler that you will find on pretty much any graphics card. Alright, in terms of accessories, we have a couple dual Molex to 6-pin PCIe adapters, just in case you need them. We've got our V-check point cables, so you can plug those into the board, and then you can plug your multimeter in here, find out what your voltages are running at. Gonna lift this out, have a look at what we've got included in terms of games. You know what? I actually don't have this game, so I'm not gonna give this away. I'm gonna try it. It's a, hopefully a Steam download, because if it's not, it's probably too much work for me to bother. Alright, next we have a quick user's guide, drivers, disk, which you shouldn't use. We've got, I don't know, some other piece of paper, a mini HDMI to HDMI adapter, as well as a DVI to VGA adapter. I'm just teasing the boys over at MSI, and girls at MSI. I'm sure that was a very innocent typo, and they don't actually think that it's spelled Mimi. So let's go ahead, open up this package here. There we go, there we go. There's a truck going by, so we're not even gonna try and talk. Alright, let's get this plastic off here. Gotta love the outdoor unboxings. I know a lot of you don't love the outdoor unboxings, but frankly I don't really care, because I like them. Chance to get out of the office for a little while, not to mention the excellent natural light that lends itself well to videography. Alright, just gonna finish taking off this plastic, having a little bit of trouble there, the plastic. Alright, there we go. So this is the Twin Frozr 3. So as you can see, we've got the dual 80mm propeller blade fans, we've got a high density heatsink fin arrangement. Okay, we've talked about that plenty before. That's interesting, they did not call out the superpipes on this card. So normally they call out their superpipes, so we've got one and two incredibly thick heatpipes that are designed. You can see those are the ones that carry the heat furthest away from the GPU, so they are more efficient than the thinner heatpipes, because they have to carry the heat out away further. You can see the PCB is stamped MSI Hawk version 1.2. The reason it's stamped MSI Hawk and not Nvidia reference is that it is a completely custom PCB. That is how MSI builds in the functionality of their auxiliary overvoltage, their V-check points, as well as more phases of PWM to deliver cleaner power to your GPU for better overclocking. Back here, we've got our V-check points. So we've got one for the GPU, one for the memory, and one for the PLL. Okay, here we've got our dual 6-pin PCIe power connectors, and then this is another feature that they did not talk about at all on the packaging, but this brace right here. This prevents the GPU from flexing when you have a heavy cooler installed, such as a TwinFrozer 3 cooler. So what that means is that when you install your graphics card in your system, it's supported only by these screws and the slot itself. So what happens is a lot of the time, if you put a heavy cooler on it, the board will flex down from the weight. Well, this adds some extra rigidity to the board because you can see it's bolted in right here to the screws that go into your case and gives it a more solid overall mount into your chassis. Okay, so we've covered that. Let's have a look at the back of the PCB itself, where we are using spring-loaded screws to mount the TwinFrozer 3 cooler. We've also got a standard PCI Express 16x interface, which we're pretty much used to seeing at this point on graphics cards. One SLI finger, so it is two-way SLI ready, but not three-way or four-way SLI ready. That is a limitation of the GTX 560 GF114, whatever it's called thing, GF114 GPU. Here we've got a BIOS switch, that's kind of cool, so you can switch between BIOSes and then, I actually don't know what that is. If you guys know what this is, let me know. It looks like a fan header to me, but I could be wrong. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm wrong because that would be only three pins. Okay, hold on, let me see if the PCB is labeled and I just can't see it. So there's performance, oh, here we go. Oh no, this is not a BIOS switch. It's for performance, silent, and one other mode. That's not very well labeled. You can see the labels are actually down here under the switch. Performance, silence, and reserved. Oh, okay. And then, this is something to do with the BIOS. It's labeled JBIOS. So guys, feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you guys think it is. Here we go, at the back you can see that there's going to be a little bit of external exhaust from the TwinFrozer 3, but I would not, I would definitely not rely on that to do the bulk of your cooling. So you're going to be kicking out a fair bit of heat into your case. That's just the reality of these higher performance coolers. You better have a high performance case that's prepared to move the heat out. Here's our dual DVI's as well as our Mii Mii HDMI, and I think that's pretty much everything I have to say about the TwinFrozer 3 Hawk GTX 560 Ti. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And thanks to MSI for providing us with the GTX 560 Ti to check out. Looks pretty sweet, especially in the sun. It's all shiny and stuff. And now we're looking for hawks up there again. Way to go, camera.