5/14/2012 07:00:00 PM
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Well-known motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte was reportedly scoured by nosy enthusiasts who managed to unveil the complete details about the company’s most powerful GTX 680 card.
The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with a very special custom PCB (printed circuit board) that will help Nvidia’s Kepler-based GPU to reach record high overclocks. It has an 8 Phase VRM that uses NEC Tokin 0E907 Proadlizer capacitors and Proselytizer film to enhance the card’s power filtering. Like all high-end Gigabyte video cards and mainboards, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with Gigabyte’s well-known Dual BIOS technology.
The power is supplied through the use of a 8-pin power connector and a 6-pin one. Now let’s get to the interesting part. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card’s GPU is running at a very high 1137 MHz right from the factory. This is a significant 13% base overclock, and when the Turbo option kicks into action, the frequency will rise to 1202 MHz. That’s a 13.6% frequency increase.
The four Proadilizer chips will supply a maximum of 240 watts to the GPU and memory chips. We’ve already described in detail the very efficient cooling system here. Unfortunately, the five 40 millimeter fans are not evacuating the heat outside the case like it would be desirable, but even so, the load temperatures are well kept in check at a low 60 degrees Celsius. This is a very good result considering that Anand’s great review tested the card at a medium 78 degrees Celsius load temperature using the default cooler.
Therefore, we can see that the reference cooler lets the card be around 30% hotter when compared with Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X cooling solution. The launch should probably come in the June / July time frame and the initial price estimations are around 870 USD. That would be around 670 EUR for the European enthusiasts if the prices stay put for the following weeks.
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