Quick Share of the new MSI N670GTX Power Edition 2GD5/OC with Twin Frozr 4
Glad to be back in the forum and I was been busy for awhile. By this time lots of PC hardware already came out especially from Nvidia. Just like today my share would be MSI's N670GTX PE 2GD5/OC video card.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...PEBoxFront.jpg
First of all lets talk about the GTX670 GPU chip. This GPU is the younger sibling of GTX680 which uses the same 28nm GK104 chip but with one disabled shader cluster/core.The reference or standard GPU clock is 915Mhz with a turbo boost of 980 and as for the memory is concerned, it has a 256bit memory bus connected to a 2GB GDDR5 memory with speed of 6008Mhz. Just like with any Kepler based architecture, the card would also have all the goodies like "Adaptive V-Sync", "AA TXAA (Temporal Super Sampling)", supports "DX11.1" and improved 3D Vision Surround.
Moving on, let's check out now what MSI did with their GTX670 SKU based video card. The card is under a new Series named "Power Edition" (series comparison table below) and it comes factory overclocked from GPU clock of 915MHz to 1020MHz and Turbo boost of 980Mhz to 1080Mhz. It also comes with the 4th version of Twin Frozr Thermal Cooling design with a theme color of Black and Blue which matches the color of MSI's midrange to high-end motherboards as well. The dual 8cm PWM fan based cooler are equipped with Propeller Fan Blades which draws air better and now has the so called "Dust Removal Technology", basically as you startup your PC the fan will rotate counter clockwise for 30 seconds clearing the dust from the cooling heatsink. Adding a finishing touch, MSI equipped the video card with their Military Class III components ensuring the best performance, efficiency, higher overclocks and durability.
Additional Box Shots of the N670GTX PE OC
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...PEBoxFlip1.jpg
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MSI Series Comparison Table
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...Comparison.jpg
New Power Edition Series which is a notch higher than the basic Twin Frozr Series.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../th_N670PE.jpg
Below are some other basic specs of the card which not been mentioned above.
•CUDA Cores: 1344 Units
•Output: DisplayPort / HDMI / DL-DVI-I / DL-DVI-D
•Total Draw Power: 200W
•Card Dimension: 267x117x38mm
•DirectX: DX 11.1
•OpenGL: 4.2
•PCI Express: 3.0
•SLI: 3-Way Capable
•3D Vision Surround: 3 Output per Single Card
•Pure Video HD: Y
•HDCP: Y
•Minimum Power Requirement: 550W with 38A for the +12V Rail
Actual shot of the Rear Ports
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ERearPorts.jpg
The card is powered up by additional 2x 6Pin power connectors.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3..._N670PETop.jpg
Five 8mm thick heatpipes design
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...670PEPipes.jpg
In the future, there might be a GTX670 4GB GDDR5 version as you can see the empty spaces between the GPU memory chips
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...N670PEBack.jpg
Bundled Accessories included in the package
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3..._N670PEAcc.jpg
•1x DVI to VGA Dongle
•2x 4 Pins Molex to 6 Pins VGA Power
•DVD Driver/Utility Disc
•Manual and Quick Guide
Test Sytem and Configuration
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Processor: Intel i7 3770K @ Stock Speed / 4.8GHz / 4.849GHz
Cooler: Thermaltake Advanced Frio
Memory: 2x4GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133Mhz
SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 90GB
Motherboard: Z77A-GD80
Videocard: N670GTX Power Edition 2GB OC
PSU: Antec TPQ 1200
Softwares: Windows 7 64bit Ultimate, MSI Afterburner 2.2.2, Nvidia Forceware 304.48, GPU-Z 0.6.2, CPU-Z 1.60.1.x64, Futurmark Benchmark Softwares, HwBot Heaven DX11
Okey let the benchies begin :) 1st set of benchies @ stock settings
3dMark06 - 28799
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ark0628799.jpg
Vantage - P31817
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...tageP31817.jpg
3dMark11 - P9530
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ark11P9530.jpg
[b]Heaven DX11 - 1956.985
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...X111956985.jpg
2nd Set - Processor @ 4.8GHz while the video card is still running at stock speed
3dMark06 - 35852 From the previous score of 28K it jumped to 35K. This is becuase 3dMark06, relies heavily on the clock frequency of the processor.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ark0635852.jpg
Vantage - P34377
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...tageP34377.jpg
3dMark11 - P9861
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ark11P9861.jpg
Heaven DX11 - 1986.539
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...X111986539.jpg
3rd Set - i7 3770K @ 4.849GHz and the video card GPU clock @ 1070mhz with turbo boost at 1148Mhz and memory clock speed @ 1717MHz (6868Mhz effective rate)
3dmark06 - 36402
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ark0636402.jpg
Vantage - P36194
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...tageP36194.jpg
3dMark11 - P10263
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...rk11P10263.jpg
Heaven DX11 - 2140.223
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...x112140223.jpg
That's it. I will share another hardware soon :)