Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom Video Card Pictured
Tweaktown is based out of Taipei and they managed to swing by the Gainward offices in the city and got a chance to see the Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom video card! This video card has a custom GPU cooler on it and also uses what looks to be a custom PCB design. The Gainward GeForce GTX 680 Phantom looks pretty slick. At first glance it would appear that the card is passively cooled, but there are two cooling fans under the large array of cooling fins that is fed heat by five heatpipes! No clock speeds were given, but we are really interested in what it will be clocked at as this card looks nothing like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX680 reference design.
On first inspection I asked if it was passively cooled, quickly realizing that would be near on impossible due to the fact that the GTX 680 is a high-end GPU part and generates a lot of heat. On closer inspection we saw that the Phantom actually includes two cooling fans built inside or at least just below the massive radiator / heatpipe design which covers the full top surface of the video card.
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