Zotac GTX 670 TwinCooler Graphics Card Appears

NVIDIA's Geforce GTX 670 graphics adapter does not truly qualify as a short-length video board, but Zotac has taken the matter into its own hands, making a version that fits in micro-ATX cases just fine.

One trait of the GeForce GTX 670 video board, a trait not immediately distinguishable in the product photos, is that the board is short. Unfortunately, this advantage is nullified by the length of the cooler (NVIDIA's lateral-flow cooling assembly reaches well beyond the PCB). Zotac has decided to release a GTX 670 that doesn't have that problem. The result of its meddling is the ZTGTX670-2GD5TCR001/ZT-60305-10P. That's the model number. The actual name of the computer add-in board is Geforce GTX 670 TwinCooler.

TwinCooler stands for the two orange fans keeping the product at decent operating temperatures. They have 80mm diameters. The cooling shroud makes the whole thing a tiny bit thicker than a two-slot adapter, but the third PCI Express slot shouldn't be outright obstructed. At any rate, more convenient cooling is not the only asset that Zotac's TwinColer GTX 670 can brag about. The item also has a higher performance than the default. For those who don't know, NVIDIA's invention has a base GPU speed of 815 MHz and a GPU Boost performance of 980 MHz. Meanwhile, the 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM work at 6,008 MHz.

Zotac's TwinCooler pushes the GPU to 954 MHz (1,033 MHz GPU Boost) and the memory at 6,208 MHz. The power required is supplied via the PCI Express 3.0/2.0 slot and two 6-pin connectors. Finally, there will be two dual-link DVI, one DisplayPort and one HDMI output on the I/O panel of the hardware product when it finally starts selling, on June 20. We can definitely see small PCs cramming this on the inside. A video board like this is just right for bridging the gap between HTPC and small gaming machines.

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