Accelerator Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom: the original cooler and PCB, the increased frequency

Company Gainward officially announced the accelerator GeForce GTX 680 Phantom . His unusual name must map the location of the two fans at the radiator and the heat pipes.

This is the second generation of corporate cooler Phantom, in which the manufacturer has paid attention to the structure of the heat sink, improving cooling efficiency, structural strength and reducing the generated noise. The tradeoff for efficient cooling of steel overall size of card: despite the use of two mounting holes, the accelerator is 2.5 slots, in the terminology of Gainward.

However, the buyer will receive the card overclocked by the manufacturer: GPU frequency up to 1150 MHz (basic frequency of 1084 MHz), the memory runs at 6300 MHz effective frequency, its size is 2 GB. From our review, you can see how important the performance of the memory card GeForce GTX 680. According to Gainward, this allows you to overclock the new product gain of 12.6% points more in 3DMark 2011, in the real games will be an increase of 10%.

Six-phase power system with regulators DrMOS contributes to the overclocking potential of the maps, to further "tuning" you can use the proprietary utility Expertool II. The image is displayed using two ports DVI, a DisplayPort and HDMI. The price Gainward card does not say, as the timing of the appearance on the market.