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We use a main review system which a high portion of the enthusiast user base could afford. This is ideal for measuring the relative performance of a wide cross section of hardware.
On this page however, we move the card to our high end Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition build, which is liquid cooled. This will enhance the performance even further.
Ultra High End System:
Processor: Core i7 3960 X Extreme Edition @ 4.6ghz
Cooler: Antec 920 H20
Memory: 16GB G.Skill 2,400mhz @ 10-11-10-30
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1200W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive
Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case
Monitors: Dell U3011, 3x Ilyama ProLite E2472HDD
Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB
Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung
System validation is available here.
We managed to almost score 12,000 points in 3DMark 11 with the KFA2 GeForce GTX 680 LTD OC in this system. The highest score yet for a single GPU card, by a clear margin.
damn, thats a mega card, more than my whole system cost however!
White pcb is really awesome, never seen that done before. wozzers, can never buy this b aby, off to try and win it now !
Yeah that is serious. Im not easy impressed but KFA2 are right up there now with the best of them after seeing this.
Very sexy, looks like the knd of card you can only dream about
Small fortune but very sexy. Nv for the win
Not available online sadly. Any ideas when they will have stock?
damn the more I re-read this, the more I want it 🙁 sucks to be a student.
The price is ridiculous for most people, but a good point is made in the conclusion. People who buy these kind of cards really dont care. ive seen reviews dock two points for a price over £500 when really the people who buy these and read the reviews tend to focus on overclocking, temps and how easy it would be to watercool 🙂
holy bank balance batman!
No SLI results? :p come on, lets see SLI across 4 screens next 🙂
Im not so sure on the white to be honest. its quite sore on the eyes. Id like it in pink. any takers?
Whats the significance of the ‘hall of fame’ stamp on the back of the PCB? anyone know
Great pics by the way, I can see every transistor on the board. really nice idea.
its a awesome gpu no doubt……i called it a beast
That looks like a Awesome card 3 fans OMG.
this is the highest factory oced gtx 680,overvoltage it with afterburner 2.2.3 ,i think it will reach 1.45 ghz +core clock,maybe better buy than the msi lightning 680