Saturday, March 24th 2012
Colorful Giving GeForce GTX 680 iGame Kudan Treatment
Remember the Colorful GTX 560 Ti iGame Kudan and how it made our readers scream "overkill"? What happens when you combine an over-the-top design, the Colorful iGame Kudan, with an equally over-the-top GPU, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680? You get the Colorful GTX 680 iGame Kudan, the pinnacle of air-cooling for the GeForce GTX 680.
The iGame Kudan's design methodology revolves around giving users an extremely tweakable and modular cooling solution, which can not only be modified by playing with its heatsinks, but also be re-painted to suit your style. Colorful included a pastel-set the last time around. Under the hood, the card is packed by a modular VRM. The main PCB has an 8-phase digital VRM, which can be augmented by an additional 4-phase circuit on a daughterboard, which gets attached on a modified SO-DIMM slot, which goes parallel to the plane of the PCB, on its rear. The card is said to have high out of the box clock speeds, with an even higher overclocking headroom. Colorful sells in Asia and Europe.
More pictures follow.
The above pictures are from our GTX 560 Ti iGame Kudan article, this new bundle should be identical.
Source:
PCPop
The iGame Kudan's design methodology revolves around giving users an extremely tweakable and modular cooling solution, which can not only be modified by playing with its heatsinks, but also be re-painted to suit your style. Colorful included a pastel-set the last time around. Under the hood, the card is packed by a modular VRM. The main PCB has an 8-phase digital VRM, which can be augmented by an additional 4-phase circuit on a daughterboard, which gets attached on a modified SO-DIMM slot, which goes parallel to the plane of the PCB, on its rear. The card is said to have high out of the box clock speeds, with an even higher overclocking headroom. Colorful sells in Asia and Europe.
44 Comments on Colorful Giving GeForce GTX 680 iGame Kudan Treatment
looks like asus card
:p
But that is what makes this so different, it has a really over the top add on cooling set, i am not saying it is a good idea or does the job well or even has any effect, it's just that's what makes it different.
Some people like like novel things even if there is little logic involved, i bought a full copper ninja scythe knowing full well there were better performing, lighter, cheaper coolers but at the time no others were as ridiculous thus i bought it... i am the kind of crazy person that would buy this purely as its just so silly that it would make me laugh every time i looked at it.... Yes, i am easily amused :p
Something i just noticed is why does 1 fan have regualr blade's and the other 2 are of the "performance" variety? Why not have them all the same?
The way Nvidia has done thing's with their DOC mfg's have to find way's to keep the card's temp's, specifically ^T, as close/low as possible in order to facilitate higher clock's or "best" clock's. The entire card not just the GPU. The hotter the card the less DOC you get, the cooler the card the more DOC ;) This is my understanding anyways :o
will need a truck to bring it home...:mad: