Galaxy’s GTX 660 arrives!
The Galaxy GTX 660 GC
The Galaxy GTX 660 arrives in a newer smaller redesigned Galaxy box that advertises the card without its specifications on its outside other than it is “GC – Galaxy clocked”. It mentions its 2GB framebuffer, Custom cooling, being 4-display ready, PhysX, 3-way SLI, DirectX11 and 3D Vision.
The back of the Galaxy box goes into more detail about support for 4 concurrent displays and we see the key features of the card as well, “why Galaxy”.
Great utilities are included, including Galaxy’s Xtreme Tuner Plus which includes an improved GPU voltage tuner.
One end panel shows the card’s connection possibilities.
The other end panels gives the key features, minimum system requirements as well as what’s included in the box. The card comes well-protected and in an anti-static bag.
Inside the box besides the new GTX, we find a driver CD, manual, DVI to VGA connector and a Molex to 6-Pin PCI-E power connector.
There is a single SLI connector for 2-way SLI with one other GTX 660. You can mix cards from different vendors with different clock speeds but you cannot mix cards with different amounts of cores or different framebuffers as you can with AMD’s competing multi-GPU solution, CrossFire.
The Galaxy GTX 660 is a good looking card with twin fans and 3 heatpipes to stay cool and quiet. A single PCIe connector shows in the above and below images.
Here are the connectors; 2 dual-link DVI, 1 HDMI 1.4a and 1 DisplayPort 1.1a
The Galaxy GTX 660 is factory overclocked and warrantied for three years. Galaxy has included their Xtreme Tuner overclocking software on the driver DVD or as a download on their site and you can even raise the voltage. This is a tool that we use with great results including overclocking our new GTX beyond the factory overclock. With a great warranty and 24/7 phone support, Galaxy offers great service!
We can’t wait to test out our new card, but before we begin the testing, head over to our testing configuration.