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Old 14-05-12, 09:52 AM
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Gigabyte have applied their excellent Windforce cooler to the already great GTX680. A sure thing?

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Old 14-05-12, 10:40 AM
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What a shame about this card and the 580 was such a monster too!
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so in theory not the exact bang for the bucks there . love the cooling and temps of this card where u pay a lil for such cooling
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Old 14-05-12, 10:44 AM
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Looks like Gigabyte failed with their windforce 680, i'm not a fan of the windforce cards as it is but this is definitely one to avoid compared to the other versions.
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Old 14-05-12, 11:25 AM
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Weird to me that it performs less than a reference sometimes, even oc'd.
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I just can't get my head around the fac t that they still use a blue PCB. Fugly imho.
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Utterly disappointed
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Old 16-05-12, 04:16 PM
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What AMD driver did you use Tom?
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Old 16-05-12, 07:46 PM
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What AMD driver did you use Tom?
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Is strange though because everywhere else this card performed well.
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Old 18-05-12, 04:10 AM
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love the cooling and temps of this card where u pay a lil for such cooling
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