I had the FTW 4gb GTX680 and I can say that this PCB is not the FTW.
FTW has stacked connectors .
The VRMs on the FTW was sort of diagonal and not lined straight as they are in the shot.
well Fermi (GF100/110) was the one gpu to rule them all and shared the same gpu die for the gaming cards (Geforce) and HPC cards Tesla / professional quadro. So yes its due to software differences i.e accelerating games vs HPC vs professional software such as CAD etc.
What I dont like about boost clock is that no two gpu will perform the same out of the box.. i.e GTX 680. If we could have a fixed frequency... so at least we have the same performance per chip before overclocking etc.
Still more than happy with my GTX 680 at this point even if this turn out to be a monster. I'm only gaming at 1080p anyway so all that amount of ram would be useless to me.
Last card I had was a GTX 560 Ti, before that HD 5870 - i.e gaming cards. GTX 680 = gaming card. GK110 just doesnt make...
agreed with it being micro ATX now that you mention it.
I really wanted the sg09 due to its layout but hated the front panel.
Silverstone did a similar thing with SG05/06 interms of the front panel design.
Mini ITX
the case has been described as having a 140mm top fan (probable AP141). SG09 has 180mm fan. Therefore it has to be mini itx and not just a 're-skinned' SG09.