Introduction

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 was introduced earlier this year has taken the enthusiast market by storm. It offers great performance at significantly reduced power consumption. NVIDIA's dynamic overclocking algorithm works well and provides a nice speed boost for the card. We are now seeing the first custom GTX 680 board designs pop up.



MSI'S GTX 680 Twin Frozr III uses the reference design PCB and dual fan cooler. The company also included a clock increase to 1059 MHz base clock, memory clock has remained the same. In terms of pricing MSI is asking a price premium for $50 over the reference design.