14 DAY TRIAL // We've seen the Galaxy GTX 680 4 GB card, or at least some preview photos of the unfinished product, and now we are looking at another version of the Kepler controller, from the same company.
A 4 GB video board is all well and good, but Galaxy doesn't appear to be eager to turn all of its future GTX 680 models into that sort of card.
Still, the GeForce GTX 680 Hall of Fame Edition will definitely not be lacking in special features.
In fact, according to the revelation made at a media event in China, GTX 680 HOF will have the highest out of the box overclocking.
The report conveniently neglected to say precisely what the frequency would be, but we suppose it has to be high indeed, if Galaxy went to the trouble of implementing dual-8-pin energy input.
In other words, the upcoming beast will possess a TDP Thermal design power of 300W.
We'll have to say it here that we aren't going to buy into these “strongest factory OC” claims until we see the product for ourselves.
Not that we don't believe Galaxy is capable of tweaking the living lights out of the GPU of course. The reason we say this is because Zotac is also going to be gunning for that first spot, with a 2 GHz GTX 680 model.
That said, Galaxy's GTX 680 HOF boasts a white PCB (printed circuit board) and the company's GX31 VRM controller.
Furthermore, the 8+2+2 phase VRM, while still an analog design, comes with International Rectifier DirectFETs and high-grade chokes.
As for the cooler, it is made up of a set of aluminum fin heatsinks, some copper heatpipes, three 90mm fans for ventilation and blue LEDs.
Finally, the dual-BIOS design will let overclockers play with the voltages and clocks without worrying that they will permanently ruin their product. Unfortunately, we still don't know when the release will take place, or the price.
