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**AWESOME MSI GTX 680 TWIN FROZR DEAL!!**

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Hi there


This is one of the lowest prices in the UK for a GTX 680, but more impressively this card has the great Twin FrozR cooler on it for lower temperatures and less noise. :)



MSI GeForce GTX 680 Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £359.99 inc VAT

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The GeForce® GTX 680 delivers more than just state-of-the-art features and technology. It gives you truly game-changing performance that taps into the powerful next-generation GeForce architecture to redefine smooth, seamless, lifelike gaming.

Immerse yourself in an ultra-smooth gaming experience with exciting new NVIDIA technology advancements like NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync. It’s a fast, seamless way to adjust VSync to your current frame rates for maximum playability.

Features:-
- Innovative new GeForce architecture, designed to deliver faster, more power-efficient performance
- NVIDIA GPU Boost technology that dynamically maximizes clock speeds to push performance to new levels and bring out the best in every game
- The power to turn on lightning-fast anti-aliasing in a huge variety of games, automatically, with NVIDIA FXAA
- The power of 3-way NVIDIA SLI® technology
- Ultra-smooth gaming experience with exciting new NVIDIA technology advancements
- NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync adjusts VSync to current frame rates for maximum playability
- NVIDIA 3D Vision® Surround multi-monitor gaming on a single GPU (three gaming monitors plus one accessory display) - for the first time ever
- Supercharged NVIDIA PhysX® and NVIDIA 3D Vision® performance
- New 28nm process means cooler, quieter and far superior overclocking potential than previous generation graphics cards
- Propeller Blade Technology generates 20% more airflow than traditional fan design
- Dual 8 PWM fans with SuperPipe technology provide better heat dissipation.
- 22c cooler and 10.2 dB quieter than reference design!!

Specification:-
- Core Clock: 1006MHz (GK104)
- Core Boost Clock: 1058MHz
- Innovative thermal design: Vapour Chamber (Quieter & Cooler than previous generation)
- Memory: 2048MB GDDR5
- Memory Clock: 6008MHz (Effective)
- Memory Interface: 256-Bit
- Processing Cores: 1536
- Shader Clock: 2012MHz
- Bus Type: PCI-Express GEN 3.0 (Backwards compatible)
- Display Connectors: 2x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1x HDMI 1.4a & 1x Displayport
- SLI Ready (Upto 3-Way SLI Supported)
- HDCP Capable
- DirectX 11 Support
- OpenGL 4.0 Support
- PhysX Enabled
- CUDA Enabled
- 3D Vision Enabled
- NVIDIA Surround Enabled
- Lower power consumption (Maximum consumption 195 watts at stock speed)
- 2x 6-Pin PCI-E Connectors required
- Card Dimensions: 270*111.15*38.75 mm
- Warranty: 3 Years


Was [£399.95] Inc. VAT

Only £359.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Only 2gb VRAM ? lol
and it costs that price, would have to see how much the price was before this deal oh wait £400.

games these days when adding at least 4-8aa require over 2gb vram or you get stuttering or slowdown +, anyway its nvidia and there prices lol nothing new.
 
ViRuS2k said:
Only 2gb VRAM ? lol
and it costs that price, would have to see how much the price was before this deal.

games these days when adding at least 4-8aa require over 2gb vram +, anyway its nvidia and there prices lol nothing new.
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No they don't.

2GB is matched perfectly to the GPU grunt of the 680. In fact even up to 5760*1080 with two 2GB cards the physical VRAM amount doesn't come into it.
 
Rusty0611 said:
No they don't.

2GB is matched perfectly to the GPU grunt of the 680. In fact even up to 5760*1080 with two 2GB cards the physical VRAM amount doesn't come into it.
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All i know is pushing a card over its vram limit is bad for performance. hell most of the games i have if i max them out with 8-16aa @1920x1200 it will easily push the vram over 2gb+ not to mention higher resolutions....

P.s i dont know what games you have been playing LOL but you must be playing none graphical intensive games or games with no demanding high res textures, cause i like i have said can easily pass 2gb vram limits, hell thats why i have cards with 3gb as games are starting more and more now to easily pass 2gb.

hell there are even games out now and coming out next year that for high end require 8gb DDR3 now so people with 6gb need to think about upgrading that soon to ;)
 
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ViRuS2k said:
All i know is pushing a card over its vram limit is bad for performance. hell most of the games i have if i max them out with 8-16aa @1920x1200 it will easily push the vram over 2gb+ not to mention higher resolutions....

hell there are even games out now and coming out next year that for high end require 8gb DDR3 now so people with 6gb need to think about upgrading that soon to ;)
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I don't think you really understand what you're talking about. The reason you're using more than 2GB is because you have more than 2GB available so the application caches extra textures. It doesn't mean that the extra VRAM is required. If you run out of VRAM you drop to 1-2 FPS and in my own testing of triple screen 5760*1080 you don't run out of VRAM. That is 3 times your resolution so I'd say it's safe to surmise than 1920*1080 is a non-issue.

e.g. 3GB 580s vs 2GB 670s VRAM usage - 2.4GB on the former; 1.7GB on the latter.

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P.s i dont know what games you have been playing LOL but you must be playing none graphical intensive games or games with no demanding high res textures, cause i like i have said can easily pass 2gb vram limits, hell thats why i have cards with 3gb as games are starting more and more now to easily pass 2gb.
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No it has 3GB because it was 1.5GB or 3GB with a 384 bit bus. Obviously not going to be the former.

Here's my own testing results, note the relationship between FPS and VRAM used:

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Its not 1.5 its 3gb 2x 7950s crossfire is 3gb usage mirrored.

very strange, must be radion pro or msi thats reporting vram usage wrong.
cause i easily shown over 2235mb vram usuage in farcry 3 maxed out 8xaa @1920x1200 res.

strange.
 
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ViRuS2k said:
Its not 1.5 its 3gb 2x 7950s crossfire is 3gb usage mirrored.
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???? :confused:

WHAT?!

I said it has 3GB because with a 384 bit bus it's a choice between shipping the card with 1.5GB or 3GB and 1.5GB is clearly not viable short to medium term so the 7900 series is shipped with 3GB.

I'm quite aware that VRAM isn't cumulative in multi-GPU combo's thanks :D.

ViRuS2k said:
very strange, must be radion pro or msi thats reporting vram usage wrong.
cause i easily shown over 2235mb vram usuage in farcry 3 maxed out 8xaa @1920x1200 res.

strange.
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It's only because when excess VRAM is available more is cached giving a false impression of VRAM usage. What's being reported is correct but what is needed is a different matter.
 
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Rusty0611 said:
It's only because when excess VRAM is available more is cached giving a false impression of VRAM usage. What's being reported is correct but what is needed is a different matter.
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Kind of defeats the purpose then of having those programs if there not correctly factoring in that cache aswell then as its giving people false readings.
 
ViRuS2k said:
Kind of defeats the purpose then of having those programs if there not correctly factoring in that cache aswell then as its giving people false readings.
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It's impossible to determine what is required as opposed to what is being used other than comparing like for like on different cards with different VRAM amounts.

When the 600 series came out - andybird123 IIRC - pointed out this his 3GB 580s were using a massive amount more VRAM than his 670s on a like for like basis.

Anyway, the point is that 2GB is fine for 1920*1080, more than fine in fact.
 
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ViRuS2k said:
Kind of defeats the purpose then of having those programs if there not correctly factoring in that cache aswell then as its giving people false readings.
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Hmm not really. They are reporting things correct. They indicate what is being used - not what is needed.
It's like your own Task Manager in Windows, it shows what is being used, but not what's needed.
 
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