4-1-2011 review by kitguru

This video card is clocked higher than the Asus Geforce GTX580 Direct CU II, but the sample the reviewers received failed to manually overclock to the same levels. The price however is too high, this card is pricing itself out of the market when compared to similar video cards.

Compared To:

• AMD Radeon HD5850, HD5870, HD6850, HD6870, HD6950, HD6970, HD6990
• MSI N560GTX Ti Twin Frozr II
• Nvidia Geforce GTX460 OC, GTX570, GTX570, GTX580, GTX590
• XFX Radeon HD5970 Black Editi

Benchmarks:

Mafia 2, Resident Evil 5, Far Cry 2, Alien V Predator, Lost Planet 2, Metro 2033, Colin McRae Dirt 2, STALKER: Clear SKy, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dead Space 2, Total War: Shogun 2.

Test Setup:

• Computer Case : Thermaltake Level 10
• CPU : Intel Core i7 970
• CPU Cooler : Coolit Vantage
• Displays : Dell U2410 UltraSharp, LaCie 730, Iiyama Prolite E2472HDD x2
• Mainboard : MSI X58A-GD65 (MS-7522)
• Memory : 3x2GB GSkill Performance DDR3
• PSU : Corsair Ax1200
• SSD : Kingston SSDNow V+ 512GB, Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB