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welcome to my unboxing of the galaxy geforce gtx 660ti factory overclock so galaxy clocked edition 2 gig card with custom cooling and therefore center bracket supporting 3+1 display gaming DirectX 11 physics 3d vision 3d vision surround using in videos latest 28 nanometer manufacturing process which gives you outstanding power efficiency even compared to lower end lower performing last generation products all of the usual Kepler features including adaptive vsync as well as TxAA FXAA so these are new better either faster or higher quality anti-aliasing methods you've also got full support for GPU boost which takes your let's say yeah GPU boost which basically it lets your graphics card clock itself at whatever it needs staying within a certain power and temperature threshold in order to give you the best performance you it can give you in any game that it wants to give you that best performance in that sort of petered out here the end but the point is it's good it uses the same chip as the GTX 670 and 680 so this is a GK 104 chip in here and NVIDIA hasn't even really cut it down a lot so instead of a 256-bit memory interface it's using a 192 bit memory interface but the memory is still clocked at 60 Hertz and the core is still at the same clock speed as a GTX 670 it's still got 2 gigs of memory because NVIDIA has done some funky Rikka jiggering with the memory controller so that they can actually run different density memory chips on different I don't know I don't know if channels is right but whatever they can mix and match the density of the memory chips in order to have a 192 bit bus but in even 2 gigs of video memory instead of 100 have seen in the past the first time we saw this was on I think the 550 ti so so now we're seeing this on high-end card and this is truly a high-end part uses a PCI Express 3.0 interface supports as I mentioned before three plus one displays using DVI HDMI and DisplayPort it's got galaxies custom bracket on the back which is gonna give you a little bit more exhaust but in the case of a card like this where most of the exhaust is going to be around the card because it's using an internal exhaust cooler as opposed to an external exhaust cooler it's not gonna make that much of a difference it's got a dual SLI fingers meaning this is yes a sixty level card so like a four sixty five sixty six sixty eighty I sixty level card that supports 3-way SLI so fed in for a moment it supports truly high-end features this custom card from galaxy has a six pin and an eight pin power connector which in theory should deliver more power to the card if it needs it but it's probably unnecessary given even the gtx 680 uses two six pins unless you buy the galaxy card which does have the beefier power delivery system speaking of beefier power delivery system the reference cards are using that short PCB almost the same PCB as the 670 i mean it uses the same chip and it's clocked at the same clock speed and it's clocked at the same memory speed with the same amount of memory so it's pretty similar but they had to redo it a little bit for that mixed mixed two density memory miss that's going on so galaxy has not used that shortened PCB they have done a beefier PCB with more vrm components you can sort of see them all here more cooling and more length so it's the longer PCB on the galaxy card and but it still uses these top mounted power connectors so you shouldn't shouldn't run into any sort of obstructions sticking out power connectors under the end of your card this cooler is actually phenomenally efficient so we compared it I've actually already opened this card and already tested it in benchmark didn't sort of every way but whatever this card this cooler actually is significantly more efficient than the twin frozer for cooler on the MSI power Edition card I was really impressed by that it also includes dust removal technology which means it spins backwards for a few seconds when you first boot up to blow some of the dust out of the heatsink and then turns around and spins properly forward in order to give you the school impossible speaking but that's cooling possible because almost the entire PCB surface has fans blowing down on it you have great cooling not only for the GPU core itself which has these heat pipes carrying heat away from the core out to the outer edges of the fins but also great cooling for your memory vrm components and whatever other things you're gonna find on the card itself this is a pre overclocked card but you can still push it a little bit further so we did manage to overclock this card about another 90 megahertz on the core which gave us again even more of a performance boost once you start overclocking the 660ti especially if you can squeeze a little bit more out of the memory performance gets amazingly close to a GTX 670 now it's been true for quite a few generations now that you can take a 260 or and the 260 was sort of pretty close to the 280 at the time that's not the same as how a 460 was to a 470 in a 480 but you could take a 260 and get it pretty close to 280 performance by overclocking same for 417 480 same for 570 and 580 same for 670 and 680 now we can take a 60 level card and actually overclock it to nearly the same performance as a 670 which has not been something we've seen in the past 5-6 TTI's wouldn't be able to touch a 570 and the same goes for a 462 a 470 so this is a very exciting card especially given that it's $100 cheaper than a 670 and $200 cheaper than a 680 supporting all those high-end features supporting I mean low power consumption how do you go wrong I guess have I run out of things to say about it let's have a look at the accessories so galaxy includes a couple things like their card which I don't know what they are yet DVI to VGA adapter to do a molex for pin 2 600 right and sorry 1 is 2 8 pin 1 is the 6th in some kind of user's manual and no driver disk download the latest from the Nvidia website there you go they're sending a message let's just finish up with sort of some closer looks at C this is part of why I think this could will perform soil look how thick the fins are they're using almost the entire dual slot nosov the card in order to either build fans around it or put like massive sea look in between the two fans they actually build it up a little bit more just because they have a little bit more space to throw in aluminum fins so that's I I mean I don't think it's anything about the design is more for the aesthetic is more for the look so I don't think it's anything about that that makes it perform really well I think they've just put a beast amount of metal on this card to dicen 80 millimeter fans and it gets you know cooled really well so thank you for checking me on my unboxing and first look at the galaxy geforce gtx 660ti and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos