It utilizes twin Frozr IV cooling and a 10-phase VRM

Oct 19, 2012 16:01 GMT  ·  By

Back in September, a picture of the MSI GeForce GTX 660 HAWK video card somehow appeared on the Internet.

Now, that very graphics adapter has been officially launched by Micro-Star International, complete with factory-overclocked GPU.

The performance isn't the one we thought we'd find though. Despite the previous leak suggesting a 1110 MHz base clock and 1176 MHz GPU boost speed, MSI decided on 1,085 MHz and 1,150 MHz instead.

The custom-designed PCB with 10-phase VRM and the Twin Frozr IV cooler (dense aluminum fins, nickel-plated copper heatpipes) are the remaining unique traits of the GTX 660.

Everything else is the same as on the reference card: 192-bit interface, 6 GHz memory clock (2 GB GDDR5), four video outputs (two DVI, one HDMI, one DisplayPort).

MSI will ship the device with an external GPU Reactor module (it stabilizes overclocked cards by conditioning the energy fed to the GPU). The price is said to be of 1799 Chinese yuan, or $287 / 220 Euro, which is strange because GTX 660 Ti sells for less.

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