october 7 2010 review by hexus

The Arctic Cooling cooling solution unit keeps the GPU core cool and is relatively quiet even after a long time. Benchmark numbers show that it is the fastest single-GPU card the reviewers have tested. The bundle on the other hand is a bit meagre and the hot air circulates in the chassis.

Benchmarks:

Aliens vs Predator, Battlefield : Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Crysis: Warhead, DiRT 2, Power Consumption, Temperature Test.

Compared To:

ASUS GTX 465, GTX 480, Gigabyte GTX 470 SOC, HIS HD 5870, Inno3D GTX 460 OC, Sapphire HD 5830, HD 5850, XFX Radeon HD 5970, Zotax GTX 460, GTXZotax 470.

Overclocking:

The GPU core was OCed @ 847MHz and the GDDR5 ram @4,060MHz.

Test Setup:

• Display : Dell 30 inch
• Motherboard : ASUS P6X58D Premium
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate x64
• Power Supply : Corsair HX1000W
• Processor : Intel Core i7 965 EE
• RAM : 6GB Corsair DDR3 1,600 mhZ
• SSD : Corsair Nova V128 SSD