Return to the frontpage Read all the latest news-items on one page Download drivers, demo's, patches, tools in our huge file-section Our game reviews Our articles and guides Our latest hardware reviews and tests Return to homepage Be one of the 150.000 users discussing in our forums Search specific things in our news and articles
 
 You are here: Home » Hardware reviews » Videocards


 KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 White edition and Anarchy review

 By: Hilbert Hagedoorn Edited by Ian R Barling | Published: January 27, 2011  


 

KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Aaah yea... Guru3D comin' right back at cha with another GeForce GTX 560 Ti review! A double whammy actually as we'll be testing not one but two rather special cards from the chika's at KFA2, the European version of Galaxy for those of you that didn't know.

Ehm, if we mention 'rather special' in the first paragraph already you betcha that these cards have a little sometin'-sometin' extra in store.

In the reference review you guys learned that NVIDIA has nothing to be ashamed about when it comes to the baseline performance of the GTX 560 Ti, the overclock potential however was really impressive. And AIB/AIC partners will realize that very much, you'll spot products clocked at core frequencies of 850, 900, 950 MHz and some of them will even brute force attack that upper threshold higher.

KFA2 submitted two cards, one focused at pure silence is the Galaxy GTX 560 Ti GC / KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 EX OC ANARCHY. A product that comes with a tiny overclock yet KFA2's own design “TwinBlade” dual 90mm silent fan cooler which offers 1.8x more cooling fin than the reference cooler. A cooling solution that is much more silent than the reference products and comes with a detachable design. Overclocking wise the card is factory clocked at 835 MHz on the primary graphics core, and the reference 4000 MHz on the gDDR5 memory (effective datarate). It's a card that is very overclockable.

The second card tested today is the GeForce GTX 560 White Edition aka KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 LTD OC White edition. Now you have seen it all, red PCBs, black PCBs, green PCBs, but what people do not know is that it is very expensive to make a white PCB. Galaxy & KFA2 figured frack it, let's do it anyway and as such they started designing this product.

It comes factory clocked at 950 MHz on the primary GPU core and 4400 MHz on the memory at default. The White edition is loaded with extras and features alright, first off that white PCB, then we spot 6+8-pin PEG power connectors to get some more juice flowing to the graphics card to feed its Digital PWM circuit (6 phase digital for GPU, 2 phase analog for memory).

Voltage regulation wise the board has been equipped with the Volterra VT1185M (main controller) + VT1157SF (integrated MOSFET + Driver), to allow heaps of current. Memory wise this card has 0.4 ns DDR5 memory (= 5000 MHz), spotted lately on Gigabyte products, KFA2 adds four NEC Proadlizers to clean up power, and comes with a Quad heat pipe copper base cooler topped with an aluminum cover.

Oh, you just got a semi didn't you? As always, have a quick peek and then head onwards into the review.

KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 Ti



 


 

Pages (23): [1] 2 3 next » ... Last »


 

previous page

homepage

 

Check lowest prices on these products in Guru3D.com price guide, among the available categories: Retail & OEM Processors - Video Cards - Motherboards - Memory - Soundcards - Hard Drives - Monitors - Printers - DVDs - CD-RWs - PDAs and more !

Copyright (c) 1997-2011 Hilbert Hagedoorn, All Rights Reserved. - Legal disclaimer/notice
The Guru of 3D, Guru3D, the Hardware guru, HardwareGuru and 3D Guru are the trademark ownership of Hilbert Hagedoorn.



  Site Navigation
   Home
   Latest News
   Submit News
   Hardware Reviews
   Articles & Guides
   VGA Charts 
   Game Reviews
   Forums
   Download Section
   Guru3D Price Grabber
   Guru Price Grabber UK
   Guru PC Buyers Guide
   Guru3D Stereo Section
   Guru3D Clan
   Guru3D Folding@Home
   Contact us
   Join our news-letter
   Follow us on Twitter new
   Set as Homepage
 

  Affiliates

RivaTuner
nVHardPage
3DMark Vantage
SiSoft SANDRA
AfterBurner OC tool
nVTempLogger
ATI Tray Tools

Guru3D Rig of the Month
  Links
Your company ?
Registry Booster 2011
Your company ?
  Downloads
NVIDIA GeForce drivers
ATI Catalyst drivers
Benchmarks & Demo's
Game Demo's
NVIDIA Chipset drivers
Intel Chipset drivers