It really does look awesome :D Improved PWM- with a separate cooler so it's easy to watercool (or freeze) the core, improved PWM for the GDDR- which was a real sticking point on the reference cards.

Other reviews have stated is uses less power than the reference cards.

:D

Not really worth it IMO.

considerable three-slot tickness

All those MOSFETs receive coolin gin the form of

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Ee, hark at SHE!

That is gign.. ginonn.. giornom.. bloody huge!

Btw good job not making it into swiss cheese this time :)

Cant decide if it looks silly or ugly tbh.

For every high end design with new features like this - i think cool, more goodies for us peasants next year.
I think amd / nvidia and all partners would get more breathing room for "performance per £" if they went with breakout box solutions so they dont have to worry about cramming everything into a little sandwhich box

A proper displayport as opposed to a mini one, at last!

Bittech do you run your overclocking tests first BEFORE removing the heatsink???

well lets face it, it will only be worth it if it performs well!

I think it is quite ugly though, although if your going for a build that has that ammo crate style then should look ggggrrreeaaatt :P

Originally Posted by m0o0oeh

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Gin cooled GPU :D

Originally Posted by mrbens
Gin cooled GPU :D

They could call it Victory Gin.

Originally Posted by law99

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Originally Posted by mrbens
Gin cooled GPU :D

They could call it Victory Gin.

Probably better then Gin drunk Benchtesters!

Originally Posted by Er-El
A proper displayport as opposed to a mini one, at last!

+1 to proper displayport!

It's a monster, not sure why would anyone think it's worth to use 3 out of 7 slots for graphics card.

2 for graphics card, 1 for sound card and one for extra IO brackets. And often you loose top-most port due to stupid motherboard heatsinks.

i agree with what Richard said about the logo.

I personally think the ASUS logo looks tacky with it so big on the side of the card.

Folding performance?

Mmm.. I don't get it. My Zotac GTX580 not overclocked, with i7-975 gives me 3D Vantage score of 28916.

When overclocked slightly: GPU 855 Mhz, shadder 1710Mhz and memory at 2055Mhz, the score is 31246.

And it cost 470 euros.

Don't like it. Might have a change of heart thought if it overclocks something similar to GTX560:D

If you have the money to splash out on this, surely you have the money to just water cool a normal 580 and have 2 freed up slots.

I think it looks like a lot of audio gear, with the logo splashed on the visible bit. TBH I quite like that look.

I've a Mitsubishi screen here with "MITSUBISHI!" shouting out of the back panel.

Where are the benchmarks Bit-tech!

Looks like all that power hardware helps this thing overclock like a beast, though the massive cooler would always be swapped for the most extreme tweaking.

Looks like an awesome card... I like the design, but of course the price is prohibitively expensive.

Also, while it's nice that you tested SmartDoctor, that software really is a pile of junk. I've been using MSI Afterburner with an ASUS card for a while now, no issues here.

Originally Posted by sb1991
Looks like all that power hardware helps this thing overclock like a beast, though the massive cooler would always be swapped for the most extreme tweaking.

I was going to add that link before i saw you had. Crazy overclock

Shamino's card also ripped through the Wings of Fury demo at an eye-watering 1,904.7 frames-per-second.

That's just ridiculous.

At Laaaast! Anyway Gainward have released a their own custom GeForce GTX 580 Phantom 3

btw. . . when will this be available?

Originally Posted by aLtikal
Bittech do you run your overclocking tests first BEFORE removing the heatsink???

Of course. Test BEFORE breaking is a rule of thumb. We've just written it the other way around :)