Asus GTX590 and HD6990 review

The Asus GTX590 arrives in a fantasy style box complete with JR Tolkien style warrior on horse. They are claiming a 50% faster increase with the voltage tweak which we already know to be absolute nonsense.

The package contains a Driver CD and documentation, a PCI express power cable, DVI to HDMI adapter and DVI to Analog VGA adapter.

The GTX590 is a long video card measuring 28 cm.

It is a two slot design and the fan is centrally positioned to pass air over all the components.

It ships with three DVI ports and one mini displayport. Thanks to the dual GPU design you can actually use all outputs at the same time. This is still lacking compared to AMD's 6 output design, but it is a welcome improvement when compared to other cards in Nvidia's range. The card contains HDMI audio out functionality which 1.4a support. This allows for DTS-HD, AC-3, DTS and Dolby TrueHD with 7.1 channel audio and 192 khz/24 bit output.

Two GTX 590 cards can be combined for Quad SLI configurations. If you can afford it.

The card demands two 8 pin power connectors to operate properly, this is the same as the HD 6990.

An overview of the hardware in GPUz.

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