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For our review today we are using the latest versions of both AMD and Nvidia drivers.
Using the latest 320.18 driver with the Asus GTX670 Direct CU Mini.
We built a very high end liquid cooled Core i7 3960x system and overclocked it to 4.4ghz. We paired it up with 16GB of 2,400mhz memory and an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard.
We need to raise a point about the price of this card as ASUS are charging around £330 inc vat for the GTX 670 Direct CU Mini. The best price we found was on Overclockers UK @ £323.99 inc vat. We can get the Sapphire HD7970 OC Boost for £329.99 inc vat. The ASUS GTX670 Direct CU Mini may be tiny, but there is a premium involved for ownership.
Graphics Card: ASUS GTX 670 Direct CU Mini (Forceware 320.18 beta)
Cooler: Antec 920 H20
Memory: 16GB G.Skill 2,400mhz @ 10-11-10-30
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1250W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive
Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case
Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB
Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung
Monitors: Dell U3011 and Dell U2410 x 3.
Other video cards:
Sapphire HD7990
Sapphire HD7970 Toxic 6GB (1200mhz core /1600mhz memory)
Sapphire HD7970 OC Boost 3GB
Sapphire HD7950 Vapor X
XFX HD7870 Core Edition
XFX HD7850 Core Edition
Sapphire HD7790 (1GB & 2GB versions)
XFX HD7770 Core Edition
Nvidia GTX690
Nvidia GTX Titan
Zotac GTX670
Gainward GTX660ti
Gainward GTX660
Zotac GTX650
Software:
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Unigine Valley Benchmark
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11
3DMark
Fraps Professional
Steam Client
FurMark
Games:
Alien V Predator
Total War: Shogun 2
Dirt Showdown
Sleeping Dogs
May Payne 3
Tomb Raider
All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform generally under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests games across five closely matched runs and then average out the results to get an accurate median figure. If we use scripted benchmarks, they are mentioned on the relevant page.
