EVGA GTX 580 Classified

EVGA_Nick · 23 Sep 2011 at 17:41

Product Article - http://eu.evga.com/articles/00645/

Product PDFs

1.5GB Air - http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/015-P3-1586.pdf

3GB Air - http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/03G-P3-1588.pdf

1.5GB Hydro Copper - http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/015-P3-1592.pdf

3GB Hydro Copper - http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/03G-P3-1593.pdf

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Air Cooling

Water Cooling

Extreme Cooling

gwobbles · 23 Sep 2011 at 18:12

those coolers look really really ugly, just my thought though

Cleeecooo · 23 Sep 2011 at 18:47

gwobbles said:
those coolers look really really ugly, just my thought though

+1

Relentless81 · 23 Sep 2011 at 18:49

From the look of those blokes some serious business is about to go down

Scon · 23 Sep 2011 at 18:49

1.6Ghz

Cleeecooo · 23 Sep 2011 at 18:55

are these reference designs?

Mr. May · 23 Sep 2011 at 18:58

Jesus !?!? :eek:

how much ?

gwobbles · 23 Sep 2011 at 19:21

the coolers look like HIS IceQ done wrong...

Deluxe1 · 23 Sep 2011 at 19:26

Thats one ugly looking card would have expected more from evga.

harmony · 23 Sep 2011 at 19:37

I think the look of the OTES cooler is domineering. However I worry about the air intake capability for 4-way sandwich SLI - there seems to be no arc to help with airflow like the reference design.

mattjd · 23 Sep 2011 at 19:47

harmony said:
I think the look of the OTES cooler is domineering. However I worry about the air intake capability for 4-way sandwich SLI - there seems to be no arc to help with airflow like the reference design.

Those vents on the top of the shroud look like they are there for in taking air from within the case? I may be wrong but if it is that is a really clever design.

muggs · 23 Sep 2011 at 20:00

just had a quick skim, all i want to know is do these beat the lightnings in tech and features? classified is clocked slightly higher than the lightnings

marc1024 · 23 Sep 2011 at 20:01

they oced them to 1.6ghz? holycow.

Krony · 24 Sep 2011 at 02:57

Not the best looking cards on the planet but they are basically for extreme overclocking not the average user.

Deluxe1 · 24 Sep 2011 at 08:27

Price?

Yaayuh! · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:21

marc1024 said:
they oced them to 1.6ghz? holycow.

The Matrix can do over 1GHz on air. I'm sure most GTX 580s can do around the 1.5GHz on Liquid Nitrogen...

Tbh, just looks like a card for extreme machines running phase change for cooling. But having said that, the MSI GTX 580 Lightning Xtreme would be cheaper..
Other than that, just looks like an expensive GTX580. A waste of money unless you're going to put some serious cooling on and bench the **** out of them.

Lunawolfy · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:28

The card requires ONE THOUSAND watts to run. 2.5x more than the reference card. that's why its so fast.

EVGA mock competitors for going multi GPU cards, when they just uber tune one and give it the power requirement of two and a half cards.

Swings and roundabouts

Scon · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:33

Lunawolfy said:
The card requires ONE THOUSAND watts to run.

No it doesn't, read it again.

Yaayuh! · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:36

Lunawolfy said:
The card requires ONE THOUSAND watts to run. 2.5x more than the reference card. that's why its so fast.

What?.... do you really think that... :rolleyes:

It is capable but it doesn't 'require' 1000w dude.. lol

Idleman · 24 Sep 2011 at 09:47

Lunawolfy said:
The card requires ONE THOUSAND watts to run. 2.5x more than the reference card. that's why its so fast.

EVGA mock competitors for going multi GPU cards, when they just uber tune one and give it the power requirement of two and a half cards.

Swings and roundabouts

This card features a 14+3 Phase Power Design that can deliver over 1000W of power, and the redesigned cooling solution with an 8CM fan improves efficiency by as much as 30% (compared to the standard cooler).