welcome to my unboxing of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 Ti Factory overclock so
Galaxy clocked Edition two gig card with custom Cooling and their Force air
bracket supporting 3 plus1 display gaming direct X11 physx 3D Vision 3D
Vision suround using NVIDIA's latest 28 nanometer manufacturing process which
gives you outstanding power efficiency even compared to lower end lower
performing last generation products all of the usual Kepler features including
um adaptive vsync as well as txaa FXAA
so these are new better either faster or higher quality anti-aliasing methods
you've also got full support for GPU boost which takes your uh let's see yeah
GPU boost which basically lets your graphics card clock itself at whatever
it needs staying with within a certain power and temperature threshold in order
to give you the best performance you it can give you in any game that it wants
to give you that best performance and that sort of petered out near the end
but the point is it's good it uses the same chip as the GTX 670 and 680 so this
is a GK 104 chip in here and NVIDIA
hasn't even really cut it down a lot so instead of a 256bit memory interface
it's using a 192-bit memory interface but the memory is still clocked at 6 GHz
and the core is still at the same clock
speed as a GTX 670 it's still got two
gigs of memory because NVIDIA's done some funky rejiggering with the memory
controller so that they can actually run different density memory chips on
different um I don't know if I don't know if
channels is right but whatever they can mix and match the density of the memory
chips in order to have a 192bit plus but an even 2 gigs of video memory instead
of 1.5 gigs of memory like we would have seen in the past the first time we saw
this was on I think the 550 TI so uh so
now we're seeing this on high-end cards and this is truly a high-end card uses a
PCI Express 3.0 interface supports as I
mentioned before three + one displays using DVI HDMI and DisplayPort it's got
Galaxy's custom bracket on the back which is going to give you a little bit more exhaust but in the case of a card
like this where most of the exhaust is going to be around the card because it's
using an internal exhaust cooler as opposed to an external exhaust cooler uh
it's not going to make that much of a difference it's got dual SLI fingers
meaning this is yes a 60 level card so
like a 460 560 660 Ti 60 Lev card that
supports three-way SLI soak that in for a moment it
supports truly high-end features this custom card from Galaxy has a six pin
and an 8 Pin power connector which in theory should deliver more power to the
card if it needs it but it's probably unnecessary given even the GTX 680 uses
two six pins unless you buy the Galaxy card which does have a beef or power
delivery system speaking of beef or power delivery system the reference
cards are using that short PCB almost the same PCB as the 670 I mean it uses
the same chip and it's clocked at the same clock speed and it's clocked at the
same memory speed with the same amount of memory so it's pretty similar but
they had to do it a little bit for that mixed mixed density memory that's going
on so galaxy has not used that shortened PCB they' have done a beefier PCB with
more vrm components you can sort of see them all here more Cooling and more
length so it's a longer PCB on the Galaxy card and uh but it still uses
these top mounted power connectors so you shouldn't uh shouldn't run into any
sort of obstructions sticking out power connectors out of the end of your card
this cooler is actually phenomenally efficient so we compared it I've
actually already opened this card and already tested it and benchmarked it in
sort of every way but you know whatever um this card this cooler actually is
significantly more efficient than the twin frozer 4 cooler on the MSI power
Edition card I was really impressed by that it also includes dust removal
technology which means it spins backwards for a few seconds when you
first boot up to blow some of the dust out of the heat sink and then turns
around and Spins properly forward in order to give you the best cooling
possible speaking of the best cooling possible because almost the entire PC B
surface has fans blowing down on it you have great cooling not only for the GPU
core itself which has these heat pipes carrying heat away from the core out to
the outer edges of the fins but also great cooling for your memory vrm
components and whatever other things you're going to find on the card itself
this is a pre-overclocked card but you can still push it a little bit further
so we did manage to overclock this card about another 90 megaherz on the core
which gave us again even more of a performance boost once you start
overclocking the 66 TI especially if you can squeeze a little bit more out of the
memory performance gets amazingly close
to a GTX 670 now it's been true for
quite a few Generations now that you can take a 260 or uh and the 260 was sort of
pretty close to the 280 at the time that's not the same as how a 460 was to
a 470 and a 480 but you could take a 260 and get it pretty close to 280
performance by overclocking same for 470 and 480 same for 570 and 580 same for
670 and 680 now we can take a 60 level
card and actually overclock it to nearly the same performance as a
670 which has not been something we've seen in the past 560 TI wouldn't be able
to touch a 570 and the same goes for a 460 to a 470 so this is a very exciting
card especially given that it's $100 cheaper than a670 and $200 cheaper than
a 680 supporting all those high-end features supporting I mean low power
consumption how do you go wrong I guess
have I run out of things to say about it let's have a look at the accessories so Galaxy includes a couple
things with their card which I don't know what they are yet DVI to VGA
adapter two dual Mo X4 pin two six oh
right sorry one is to 8 Pin one is to six pin some kind of users manual and no
driver disc download the latest from the NVIDIA website there you go They're
sending a message um let's just finish up with sort of some closer looks that
see this is part of why I think this cooler performs so well look how thick
the fins are they're using almost the entire dual slot of the card in order to
either build fans around it or put like
massive see look in between the two fans they actually build it up a little bit
more just because they have a little bit more space to throw in aluminum fins so
that's I I mean I don't think it's anything about the design is more for
the aesthetic is more for the look so I don't think it's anything about that
that makes it perform really well I think they've just put a beast amount of
metal on this card two decent 80mm fans
and it gets you know cooled really well so thank you for checking out my
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