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.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

• Graphics card
• Driver CD + Documentation
• 2x PCI-E power cable
• DVI Adapter

The Card

MSI is using their well known TwinFrozr III cooler on the GTX 680 TF III.


The card requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two dual-link DVI ports, one full-size HDMI port and one full-size DisplayPort. You may use all the outputs at the same time, thanks to NVIDIA Kepler's new display output controller.

An HDMI sound device is included in the GPU, too. It is HDMI 1.4a compatible which includes HD audio and support for Blu-ray 3D movies. The DisplayPort outputs are version 1.2 which enables the use of hubs and Multi-Stream transport.


You may combine up to four GTX 680 cards from any vendor in a multi-GPU SLI configuration for higher framerates or better image quality settings.


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