**GTX 690 NOW AVAILABLE AT OcUK!!**

I've never felt a graphics card that felt quite so well constructed... this thing really is a masterpiece :)

This might sound silly... but it's actually SMALLER than I was expecting... take a look at the comparison shots vs GTX580 below.

How about some more piccies? :)

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Backplates pointless, you buy a graphics card for what it can do, not what it looks like.

Granted some people have windowed cases but the electronic circuit board gubbins are more interesting than a metal backplate.
 
ObixConstant said:
Nice pics crinkleshoes I was shocked at the size of it lol and didn't think it'd fit in my case at 1st. And the box was twice the size I was expecting.
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Yeah... same about the box... it's huuuuuuuge. Especially the box it came in... I first thought "why the heck did they waste such a large box on a graphics card?".

Then I realised it's because the product box is ginormous!

So especially with that... I was expecting it to be noticeably bigger than the GTX580... was very surprised to see it was barely any bigger :eek:
 
MooMoo444 said:
Backplates pointless, you buy a graphics card for what it can do, not what it looks like.

Granted some people have windowed cases but the electronic circuit board gubbins are more interesting than a metal backplate.
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I agree, I'd rather see the PCB.

Plus as it doesn't have RAM on the back, I don't think there would be any advantage to adding one.
 
You people have some serious spare money lying about in your back pockets to buy these,what i find silly though as soon as NVIDIA release a better card than this your there straight away buying that aswell which simply you do not need:confused:
 
TheGhostToast said:
I think when you start spending £900 on a single component you kinda sorta start to care what it looks like
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And it looks frikkin awesome! Can't wait for the software to come out to play a bit with the lighting... ok, it'll only amuse me for 5 minutes... but still nice haha.

Spook187 said:
You people have some serious spare money lying about in your back pockets to buy these,what i find silly though as soon as NVIDIA release a better card than this your there straight away buying that aswell which simply you do not need:confused:
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Need? I don't even "need" a desktop computer... I can do everything I "need" to do on one of my laptops...

I WANT a desktop and I WANT to play games at 2560x1440 with all prettiness options enabled ;)

But yeah... if by the time something new comes out this 690 can't run something I want to play at full settings... there's a good chance I'll replace it or go for quad SLI.
 
crinkleshoes said:
And it looks frikkin awesome! Can't wait for the software to come out to play a bit with the lighting... ok, it'll only amuse me for 5 minutes... but still nice haha.



Need? I don't even "need" a desktop computer... I can do everything I "need" to do on one of my laptops...

I WANT a desktop and I WANT to play games at 2560x1440 with all prettiness options enabled ;)

But yeah... if by the time something new comes out this 690 can't run something I want to play at full settings... there's a good chance I'll replace it or go for quad SLI.
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heheh yes,the NEED and WANT game i forgot about that:p,i am a want man these days untill my wallet fills up i have to dream on:(
 
Wow... just wow:
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On top of the above, I forced FXAA and 4x transparency AA in control panel.

I've never seen screen tearing at these kind of settings before... damn it looked good :D

The min frame rate seems some kind of blip caused by other **** running in the background (i've got loads of other apps open).
 
Just been overclocking it a bit :)

Seems mine's not quite as good a sample as the reviewers got... but still surpassed 680SLI, so I'm happy :)

Got the cores up to 1150MHz and the RAM to 6800MHz
 
crinkleshoes said:
Just been overclocking it a bit :)

Seems mine's not quite as good a sample as the reviewers got... but still surpassed 680SLI, so I'm happy :)

Got the cores up to 1150MHz and the RAM to 6800MHz
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Haven't touched it yet but that's a decent overclock. My temps already go up to 80 degrees running heaven in an endless loop for an hour or so, so I don't know how much room that'll give me temp wise ?
 
Im thinking of getting an Asus card as the EVGA seem to be hard to get hold of.....has anybody had to use the RMA from ASUS,whats it like?Secondly are ASUS gpu's any good?
Cheers all
 
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