Introduction

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 was introduced just weeks ago and 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.



Palit's GeForce GTX 680 JetStream uses a custom PCB and triple fan cooler. The company also included a generous clock increase to 1085 MHz base clock and 1575 MHz memory. In terms of pricing Palit is sticking with the reference design pricing of $499.

Packaging

Contents

You will receive:

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

The Card

Palit built a large cooler that covers the whole area of the card using three fans.


Due to the shape of the cooler, the card will need 2 1/2 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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