Nvidia's Flagship Dual-GPU Powered GTX 690

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The Dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690 is Nvidia's fastest card yet. With two Kepler GK104 GPUs on a single PCB, and with a bit of overclocking, the GTX 690 could easily match two GTX 680s in SLI.


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[PP Mguire]

This thing is seriously sexy. I want haz.

[Blacksmith1]

Pete, nothing personal but I'm beggining to not like you anymore
Cool setup, I wonder how 3 or 4 of these would do folding in one rig?

[PP Mguire]

Pretty positive that isn't his setup. Those pics are the same pics used for all press.

[peti1212]

You don't have to hate me Mike... cause I don't have one in my hands. You can hate me once I have one for testing.

Edit: But yea PP, that reference design is sick! It kind of reminds me of that incident on nvforums, or one of those forums where a guy posted a new years incident about his 8800 getting jizz all over it.

[Blacksmith1]

Ok, I'm waitin' to start hatin'. gotta say it does look nice, but not that much better than my GTX295 the cooling shroud pretty much the same layout with different styling.
[edit] I take that back. with both heasinks open to the case it is very different. Now I see why you made such a point about case airflow.

[PP Mguire]

Yea I really don't like these center fan cards much but I figure if you have enough cash to afford this card then you probably have a ton of airflow in your case. I really wish I could get my hands on a dual PCB 295.

[swmeek]

Why no HDMI port ?

[PP Mguire]

Cause DVI looks better lol.

[Blacksmith1]

I like my single pcb 295, tho the 9800gx2 looks cleaner (dual pcb)

[Victor]

Why no HDMI port ?

displayport allows more displays hook up via a hub. Since the card has limited space on the back, it opted for DP so users can use it for nvidia surround.

[peti1212]

But oh God, the GTX 680 had the standard DisplayPort, and the moment I plugged in a cable I got off of MonoPrice, I could not pull it out. Had to chug so hard that the end of the cable ripped off with the port still attached to the connector. And no, I did not forget to use the button on the cable to release the cable. Had to get a pliers to force that thing out of there.

I thought to myself... oh poor card... But thankfully it did not get damaged. Still fully functional.

[swmeek]

displayport allows more displays hook up via a hub. Since the card has limited space on the back, it opted for DP so users can use it for nvidia surround.

I suppose they might actually provide a DVI to HDMI converter for the price you're gonna drop on this card .

[PP Mguire]

I like my single pcb 295, tho the 9800gx2 looks cleaner (dual pcb)

I want a dual PCB 295 and a 9800GX2 for collection. If I got a dual card like this I still prefer the sandwhich cards because I don't want any hot air being blown in my case.

I suppose they might actually provide a DVI to HDMI converter for the price you're gonna drop on this card .

High end cards usually come with 2. My 580 did and it has DP and HDMI on the back.