14 DAY TRIAL // Much like PNY, EVGA has more or less completed development of its latest NVIDIA-powered GeForce GTX 580 video card, though it selected air cooling instead of waterblocks, radiators and pumps.
Video cards of the high-end variety are making the news about as often as the current and upcoming range of Intel processors lately.
One item that got released was a liquid cooled version of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 adapter, courtesy of PNY.
Then again, it would be more accurate to say that two cards, not just one, came out, even though the cooler is the only differing feature.
Regardless, PNY was not alone in its decision to again customize the GTX 580, as EVGA also has a model approaching fast.
Unlike PNY, however, the outfit chose to stick to air cooling instead of putting together sealed liquid solutions.
The board bears the name of GeForce GTX 580 Classified and should sell with either 1.5 GB of GDDR5 VRAM or double that amount (3 GB).
Regardless of the memory amount, an interface of 384 bits is present, as are 512 CUDA cores and support for 3-way and 4-way SLI multi-GPU configurations.
All the above, along with a pair of NEC Proadlizer capacitors, Ddual BIOS, voltage status LEDs and 14+3 phase PWM, plus two 8-pin and one 6-pin PCI Exrpess power connectors, are placed on a fairly large PCB (printed circuit board).
It will land, obviously, in rigs belonging to overlockers and hardcore gamers, perhaps even in sets of more than one. Once EVGA gets around to making the official launch, exact prices and clocks should be disclosed as well.
In the meantime, prospective customers can take a look at those items that the GTX 580 Classified will have to steal market share from, like Zotac's Infinity Edition.
Finally, top-tier customers could even decide to go beyond the standard of this high-end board altogether, leaping all the way to the ASUS dual-GPU MARS II, though they will still have to wait a while.