Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 Ti GC Dual Fan Video Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing of the Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 Ti Factory overclock so
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Galaxy clocked Edition two gig card with custom Cooling and their Force air
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bracket supporting 3 plus1 display gaming direct X11 physx 3D Vision 3D
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Vision suround using NVIDIA's latest 28 nanometer manufacturing process which
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gives you outstanding power efficiency even compared to lower end lower
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performing last generation products all of the usual Kepler features including
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um adaptive vsync as well as txaa FXAA
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so these are new better either faster or higher quality anti-aliasing methods
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you've also got full support for GPU boost which takes your uh let's see yeah
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GPU boost which basically lets your graphics card clock itself at whatever
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it needs staying with within a certain power and temperature threshold in order
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to give you the best performance you it can give you in any game that it wants
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to give you that best performance and that sort of petered out near the end
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but the point is it's good it uses the same chip as the GTX 670 and 680 so this
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is a GK 104 chip in here and NVIDIA
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hasn't even really cut it down a lot so instead of a 256bit memory interface
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it's using a 192-bit memory interface but the memory is still clocked at 6 GHz
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and the core is still at the same clock
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speed as a GTX 670 it's still got two
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gigs of memory because NVIDIA's done some funky rejiggering with the memory
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controller so that they can actually run different density memory chips on
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different um I don't know if I don't know if
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channels is right but whatever they can mix and match the density of the memory
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chips in order to have a 192bit plus but an even 2 gigs of video memory instead
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of 1.5 gigs of memory like we would have seen in the past the first time we saw
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this was on I think the 550 TI so uh so
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now we're seeing this on high-end cards and this is truly a high-end card uses a
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PCI Express 3.0 interface supports as I
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mentioned before three + one displays using DVI HDMI and DisplayPort it's got
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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
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like this where most of the exhaust is going to be around the card because it's
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using an internal exhaust cooler as opposed to an external exhaust cooler uh
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it's not going to make that much of a difference it's got dual SLI fingers
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meaning this is yes a 60 level card so
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like a 460 560 660 Ti 60 Lev card that
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supports three-way SLI soak that in for a moment it
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supports truly high-end features this custom card from Galaxy has a six pin
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and an 8 Pin power connector which in theory should deliver more power to the
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card if it needs it but it's probably unnecessary given even the GTX 680 uses
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two six pins unless you buy the Galaxy card which does have a beef or power
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delivery system speaking of beef or power delivery system the reference
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cards are using that short PCB almost the same PCB as the 670 I mean it uses
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the same chip and it's clocked at the same clock speed and it's clocked at the
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same memory speed with the same amount of memory so it's pretty similar but
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they had to do it a little bit for that mixed mixed density memory that's going
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on so galaxy has not used that shortened PCB they' have done a beefier PCB with
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more vrm components you can sort of see them all here more Cooling and more
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length so it's a longer PCB on the Galaxy card and uh but it still uses
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these top mounted power connectors so you shouldn't uh shouldn't run into any
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sort of obstructions sticking out power connectors out of the end of your card
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this cooler is actually phenomenally efficient so we compared it I've
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actually already opened this card and already tested it and benchmarked it in
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sort of every way but you know whatever um this card this cooler actually is
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significantly more efficient than the twin frozer 4 cooler on the MSI power
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Edition card I was really impressed by that it also includes dust removal
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technology which means it spins backwards for a few seconds when you
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first boot up to blow some of the dust out of the heat sink and then turns
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around and Spins properly forward in order to give you the best cooling
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possible speaking of the best cooling possible because almost the entire PC B
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surface has fans blowing down on it you have great cooling not only for the GPU
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core itself which has these heat pipes carrying heat away from the core out to
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the outer edges of the fins but also great cooling for your memory vrm
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components and whatever other things you're going to find on the card itself
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this is a pre-overclocked card but you can still push it a little bit further
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so we did manage to overclock this card about another 90 megaherz on the core
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which gave us again even more of a performance boost once you start
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overclocking the 66 TI especially if you can squeeze a little bit more out of the
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memory performance gets amazingly close
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to a GTX 670 now it's been true for
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quite a few Generations now that you can take a 260 or uh and the 260 was sort of
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pretty close to the 280 at the time that's not the same as how a 460 was to
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a 470 and a 480 but you could take a 260 and get it pretty close to 280
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performance by overclocking same for 470 and 480 same for 570 and 580 same for
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670 and 680 now we can take a 60 level
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card and actually overclock it to nearly the same performance as a
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670 which has not been something we've seen in the past 560 TI wouldn't be able
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to touch a 570 and the same goes for a 460 to a 470 so this is a very exciting
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card especially given that it's $100 cheaper than a670 and $200 cheaper than
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a 680 supporting all those high-end features supporting I mean low power
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consumption how do you go wrong I guess
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have I run out of things to say about it let's have a look at the accessories so Galaxy includes a couple
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things with their card which I don't know what they are yet DVI to VGA
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adapter two dual Mo X4 pin two six oh
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right sorry one is to 8 Pin one is to six pin some kind of users manual and no
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driver disc download the latest from the NVIDIA website there you go They're
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sending a message um let's just finish up with sort of some closer looks that
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see this is part of why I think this cooler performs so well look how thick
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the fins are they're using almost the entire dual slot of the card in order to
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either build fans around it or put like
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massive see look in between the two fans they actually build it up a little bit
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more just because they have a little bit more space to throw in aluminum fins so
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that's I I mean I don't think it's anything about the design is more for
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the aesthetic is more for the look so I don't think it's anything about that
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that makes it perform really well I think they've just put a beast amount of
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metal on this card two decent 80mm fans
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and it gets you know cooled really well so thank you for checking out my
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