now we're finally seeing an influx of custom GTX 680s well okay I shouldn't
say influx because there's just plain not nearly enough of them but uh we are
finally seeing some custom GTX 680s so custom means Custom pcbs Custom coolers
nonreference design cards so this is the Galaxy GeForce G GTX 680 s so so s so
stands for presumably super overclocked
okay comes with a three-year warranty 2 gigs of memory custom cooling a force a
bracket and it has a pretty cool custom
PCB but I'm not going to give that away until we get in a little bit further so
let's have a look what they have to say for themselves maximize your performance with GPU boost so that is the GTX 68
ability to dynamically adjust its clock according to the available power
thresholds okay enjoy smoother game PL with adaptive vertical sync which either
turns on vsync or turns it off to give you an FPS boost when you're below the
refresh rate of your monitor and smoother gameplay when you're above the
refresh rate of your monitor in terms of your FPS richer visual so you can
surround yourself with multim monitor gaming on a single card so NVIDIA has
added that to their repertoire against the red team which had a bit well they
were the only ones doing it for the longest time I've even gotten like old 5870 iin 86 Edition in that system
that uh could do six displays off a single card which was totally not that
useful for gaming because it didn't have nearly the power to drive it take
control with extreme tuner plus so that is their overclocking software very very
cool all right do more with multi-display that was here okay uh
Windows Demands a real GPU this much is true although I can't say it Demands a
680 I think it'll be a while before Windows demands a 680 ultimate home
theater with 108p Blu-ray and hdcp support if you game you need a Galaxy
graphics card okay Galaxy turn it all on on okay well let's go ahead and have a
look at the card because I think when you guys see the card you are going to
get pretty excited about this so This GTX 680 is the cream of the cream for
NVIDIA attention customers thank you thank you thank you for buying it and don't forget to register your
card um it is their highest performing single GPU card probably their highest
well okay their highest performing single GPU card and it is really really
really really really fast all the latest features all that good stuff HDMI to DVI
adapter uh mini
what mini HDMI to HDMI adapter
okay um two dual moax 28 pin power
connectors okay I haven't actually like looked at this card that closely other
than like what I think is cool about it so okay be sure to visit blah blah blah
to get the latest extreme tuner this is great okay here's a disc But be sure to
visit the website to download the latest thank you Galaxy uh you have done it
correctly sir and madams because that is
exactly how we roll here on Tech tips here's a CD download the latest oh yeah
look at that custom white PCB which
would go really well with a black and white themed system or in just any
system um I tweeted a picture of this on
my on my Twitter account of the Russian showing off one of these Galaxy Super
overclocked Cards in a Vesta G2 system
it looked absolutely balling out with the green lighting effects on the back
of the card that looks so
good just admiring it I wonder what this
means it says Hall of Fame on the back of the card I mean I can understand this
being Hall of Fame I mean just look at it but I don't know why they had to
label it as such okay so on the back of the card we can see very clearly this is
a custom PC it is very very very custom it is much longer than the standard GTX
680 PCB it also has dual six P or 8 Pin
power connectors so it is designed presumably with beefier vrm and you can
even see that there's a lot more built onto the card um than the stock card it
also has a much more substantial cooler so this is triple 92mm cooling fans on
an impressive I mean this thing is really heavy this is a heavy card on an
impressive copper with five Heat pipes and then aluminum fin array that goes
the entire length of the card and then some so you can see here where all the
heat pipes are running to this is a oh okay so this is a is this plastic or
aluminum it's a plastic shroud but uh here we go so the GPU is right about
there right in between these two fans these fans are covering almost the entire surface area of the card as well
blowing down not only on the GPU and the memory itself but also on the other
components so the memory is covered in a heat spreader you can see where these Heat are heading off too so a couple of
them go pretty close and then the farthest out one carries heat over here
then next farthest out one carries heat here and the furthest out one on this
side carries heat right to the end there so if we look at the positioning of the
heat pipes and the fans each fan is blowing down directly onto fins that are
right near a heat pipe so we should have heat being directly delivered it's too
bad they weren't able to put in one more heat pipe right here but I guess you can't really ask for too much in terms
of outputs oh this is interesting Okay so we've got DisplayPort and three mini
HDM ni that is a very strange output
configuration I wonder why they did
that um huh okay well I guess I'd probably
opt for a DisplayPort out of the three just because mini HDMI is not uh not the
best thing in the world for outputting at 120 HZ at 1080p for 3D
so hold on just a minute guys well Galaxy does whatever they
please when it comes to outputs it turns out I mean their MDT cards from the last
generation were a great example of that where they were like oh NVIDIA says we
can only do two displays at a time well we can do three ha um so there you go
they've gone with DisplayPort and three mini HDMI connections um you've also got
an open sort of second PCI bracket so
what that means is this is very much an internal airflow card so you're going to
exhaust a little bit out the back of the case but you better make sure you have a case with good air flow which I hope if
you're buying a GTX you already had sort of figured out now of note is the fact
that okay two things of note is the fact that you see how easy it is to access
the screws that hold these fans on can you see that that's really cool take out
three screws pop the fan off you can easily clean out your graphics card get
all the dust out of it completely having removed the fans from it and I think
that's a very cool feature and the second thing of note other than the fact
that it has PCI Express 3.0 and two SLI
fingers for up to three or four we configurations is the fact that this has
the whitest PCB that I have yet seen I have seen products with white pcbs in
the past such as sapphires pure motherboard back on the 690g chipset for
AMD this is much whiter this is like
white white as opposed to like yellow white so an example of a build that this
would look absolutely fantastic in is one like this where the inner guts are
predominantly black and white so I would love to replace the Radeon graphics card
in here with a uh suitably White GeForce graphics card
so check this out see white and black theme you go ahead
you throw one of these in there how Beast would that look would barely even
fit too even though this is an arc mey this is a long graphics card uh you know
what I think I have a tape measure here yep let's measure how long it is because
this must be close to 12 in all right so from the back of the
there so 11 1/2 in so make sure you have a case that is capable of housing an 11
1/2 in graphics card before you go ahead and install one of these so thank you
for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Galaxy GeForce GTX 680 so
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