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Written by Jeff_Tom
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 03:08 |
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Few things are more infamous in
The dominance of Nvidia's GeForce 260 and 280 didn't last very long as AMD
quickly released the 4850 and 4870 and more recently the 4870 X2 which reviewed
yesterday. However, as normal with most Nvidia partners overclocked cards have
started to come out and a few of them show some promise. Today we'll be looking
at the Asus GeForce GTX 260 TOP which is one of this cards that comes
overclocked out of the box.
From the initial look of things not much has changed with the new Asus GTX TOP
as the Darth Vader black plastic shroud remains on the card. The Asus sticker
though is fairly unique with one of their CGI characters on the front of the
heatsink as normal although this time in an interesting camocolor scheme. Not a
radical physical change but a slight adjustment from the norm of video cards.
The big changes happen under the hood where Asus have overclocked the GeForce
GTX TOP to a 650MHz core speed up from 575MHz of your standard clock. The GDDR3
memory also sees a bump up to 2.3Ghz from 1.9GHz which should help when the card
is aching for memory bandwidth. The rest of the core specs remain the same with
192 shaders, 896MB of RAM, dual DVI out, and so on.
The hardware bundle is fairly standard with a DVI-to-VGA adapter, HDTV-out
cable, molex power adapter, Asus utilities and drier CD, and Asus now near
standard CD leather wallet. A few of their cards include a game bundle but this
is not one of them.
Here are the specs from Asus. Graphics Engine
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Bus Standard
PCI Express 2.0
Video Memory
DDR3 896MB
Engine Clock
576 MHz
Shader Clock
1.242 GHz
Memory Clock
1.998 GHz ( 999 MHz DDR3 )
RAMDAC
400MHz
Memory Interface
448-bit
CRT Max Resolution
2048 x 1536
DVI Max Resolution
2560 x 1600
D-Sub Output
Yes x 1 (via DVI to D-Sub adaptor x 1 )
DVI Output
Yes x 2 (DVI-I)
HDTV Output (YPbPr)
Yes
HDCP Support
Yes
TV Output
Yes (YPbPr to S-Video and Composite)
Adapter/Cable Bundled
1 x DVI to D-Sub adaptor
1 x HDTV-out cable
1 x Power cable
Software Bundled
ASUS Utilities & Driver
Note
Special bundled: 1. CD Leather Wallet 2. Leather Mouse Pad
The card size is 4.376 inches x 10.5 inches
Let's move onto our test system specs and benchmarks
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 August 2008 18:11 |
