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The packing of Scythe products is always something eye catching, partially because of the unique graphics and partly because of the amount of different languages it's written in. The box of the Musashi is in English and also Japanese, which is certainly different than we're used to seeing on a box! This is because Scythe has such a large market around the world. Instead of producing several different boxes, they stick to just one.

 
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For novice users unpacking the box, you'll likely start being slightly frightened for what's to come when you see the sheer number of components with the Musashi. Since it's designed for a huge list of different video cards and because each manufacturer often puts their own twist on their particular video cards, Scythe has included 23 different stick-on heatsinks of various sizes and shapes. These will be used on memory, bridge chips and any other vital chips that need cooling on the specific card it's being installed on. They're held on the card in a fairly simple way; peel and stick! All heatsinks have preapplied thermal tape on the back of them so you just need to peel off the protective backing and apply them where they need to go.

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As the pictures show, the main Musashi cooler itself is certainly a long unit. For some users this may be significantly longer than your video card's stock cooling (me included), but for others it may be no longer at all because some cards are using rather hefty sized stock coolers. When it's flipped over you can see that the Musashi uses heatpipes to help spread head from the GPU's core to all of the heatsink fins for fast and efficient cooling. Instead of using one big and loud fan like most graphics cards ship with, the Musashi uses two 90mm low-profile fans. These are controlled via two fan control dials that come ready to slot-mount in the back of your case. Using the dials you can vary the noise of the fans between 12.5 to 29.2 dBA; both of which are quieter than a lot of the fans I'm hearing on new video cards these days still.