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FRONTPAGE EVGA Introduces the GTX680 FTW

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Nice looking card, but i don't understand. Why a vapour chamber? They are noisy and not as good traditional heatsinks.

Surely, the first thing to do is rip that off, put on better cooling and then overclock the hell out of it.
 
I might as well ask my wife if I can buy a Ferrari. I'd get the same answer as I would attempting to purchase one of these! You lucky Joe's go for it, though!! :D I'll just get by with my EVGA GTX550 ti.
 
one of the party pieces of the Direct CU line has been the upgraded cooling and power control capabilites, while they don't usually up the clock they leave it to the end user or enthusiast to do that bit, and usually with quite good results. Having a few of the early directCu offerings pass through my hands. I can say the results are usually quite pleasing and easy to work with.

Though at the same time EVGA continues to have a very appetizing offering. TiN is a freak of nature, and you know that anything he puts work into is gonna perform quite a bit above expectations. I would be surprised if TiN didn't have at least some input into the design of this card. Since VGA power seems to be one of his party pieces.
 
looks like a nice card will be awhile before i can afford one for my system tho=( just broke down and ordered a sabertooth x79 and a 3820 a good GTX 680 is defiantly the next upgrade heading my way tho=)
 
Vapor chamber is like a big, single, heatpipe.
Vastly more efficient than multiple small heatpipes.


The EVBot port on there looks promising :D
 
Nice cards, I just HATE that stock Nvidia reference cooler. it's so F'ing loud it sounds like a hair dryer in your computer. I love the MSI twin frozer and Asus DCII coolers. Can not wait for these better cooled cards to really roll out.
 
Ok, but i'm still not convinced. Can anyone show me a test where a vapour chamber outperforms arctic's accelero extreme (or any other decent heatsink)?
 
Classified looks pretty awesome with the EVBot port. I'm still holding out for the Lightning to see if they find a way to remove the limited overclocking/voltage without crazy hard-mods/zombie/TiN-ing. Otherwise I will probably stick to finding a 7970 lightning which appears to still do extremely well on the bot.
 
I agree with Loggitt on this one I guess times have gotten a bit rough in the household here the last few years, I used to keep up with the latest and greatest things when I could :p
 
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