The EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked edition arrives

TheEVGA GTX 660 SC

The EVGA GTX 660 Ti Superclocked is an interesting card but there is nothing fancy to see from the box.  The card arrives in a small EVGA box that advertises the card without its specifications on its outside other than it is “SC – Superclocked”. It emphasizes 2GB of GDDR5 memory and mentions PCIe 3.o, PhysX, 3-way SLI, DirectX11 and 3D Vision Surround.

The back of the EVGA box goes into more detail about support for 4 concurrent displays with the card’s connectors and we see the key features of the card as well as EVGA’s premium 3 year warranty is highlighted:

Great utilities are included, including EVGA’s Precision overclocking utility which includes an improved GPU voltage tuner.

The video card comes well-protected in an anti-static bags. It is far easier to reuse, recycle and store bags and we give EVGA credit for minimal packing.

Inside the box besides the new GTX, we find a driver CD, manual, plastic EVGA decal, DVI to VGA connector and a dual Molex to 6-Pin PCI-E power connector.

It is a physically small card as its dimensions are 4.4 inches wide x 9.5 inches long. EVGA has moved the PCIe connector from on the end of the card on the GTX 560 Ti to the side of the card on the 660 which is much more convenient for small cases.

The SLI connectors and the ports are covered with plastic protectors. EVGA’s Superclocked GTX 660 is set up for 2- way SLI with one other 660s. 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.  We are able to SLI our Galaxy TX 660 GC with our EVGA GTX 660 SOC and each card can keep its own clocks if we choose.

Here are the connectors; 2 dual-link DVI, 1 HDMI 1.4a and 1 DisplayPort 1.1a

Let’s turn it over.

Here is the card from another angle:

Specifications

Here are Nvidia’s specifications for the reference GTX 660:

Here are the EVGA GTX 660 SC specifications, features and requirements:

Here are the dimensions and what you will find in the box:

Why EVGA?

Let’s look at what EVGA offers us over the reference and other partner versions with their Superclocked GTX 660:

• Overclocked out of the box – This card offers a +65MHz core speed increase out of the box.
• EVGA PrecisionX – This utility allows overclocking, monitoring and fanspeed adjustments as well as voltage adjustments with the latest version. It is located on the DVD that ships with the card. For more information, please visit http://www.evga.com/precision
• EVGA OC Scanner – EVGA OC Scanner is fully supported by the Superclocked EVGA GTX 660 Ti. This utility allows you to benchmark, monitor and stress test your EVGA card. For more information, please visit www.evga.com/ocscanner
• EVGA Customer Support – EVGA’s acclaimed customer support can be contacted by support ticket, email, and phone. For more information, please visit http://www.evga.com/support/warranty/
• EVGA Community – Active game servers, thriving forums, integrated chat and social networks allow users to ask questions or get help wherever they feel the most comfortable. For more information, please visit www.evga.com/community/
• EVGA Warranty – EVGA offers a variety of warranties to fit their customer’s needs. This card comes with a basic 3 year warranty which may be extended. For more information, please visit www.evga.com/warranty/
• EVGA Advanced RMA Program – EVGA offers this service to help reduce the downtime of a customer’s system by shipping a replacement product first and lets their customer deal with EVGA directly for quick and efficient service. For more information, please visit www.evga.com/ear/

The EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked is factory overclocked and warrantied for at least 3 years and it is transferrable as it is now tied to the serial number, not the customer. EVGA has included their PrecisionX 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 advanced RMA’s optional, EVGA offers great service!

Because of consumer demand EVGA recently made the following changes:

• Most EVGA products now carry a 3 Year Warranty (also upgradable to 5 or 10 years upon registration).
• Product warranty covers the product, not the user.
• Registration is no longer required for RMAs with the EVGA Guest RMA process.
• Step-Up and Extended Warranties will be available for all original owners registered with the new global RMA system within 30 days of the purchase.
• If you move, you can send your product back to your local warranty center no matter what region you purchased it in.
• A new Standard Cross-Shipping RMA service is available.

We can’t wait to test out our new card, but before we begin the testing, head over to our testing configuration.