|MSI GTX 660-Ti Power Edition Video Card|
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards|
|Written by David Ramsey|
|Thursday, 16 August 2012|
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N660Ti PE Detailed Features
Video outputs include two dual-link DVI connectors, a DisplayPort connector, and an HDMI connector. You can use all four of these connectors to run four monitors simultaneously, although only three can be grouped together as an extended desktop with "NVIDIA Surround"; the fourth monitor is an "accessory display" that isn't part of the gaming screens. One detail: only the bottom DVI connector is a "DVI-I" connector that also carries analog video signals. This is the connector you plug the supplied VGA adapter into if you're still using a VGA monitor.
At the bottom of the card you can see the four heat pipes, two 8mm and two 6mm. This particular iteration of the Twin Frozr cooler is very effective, as we'll see during testing.
Each fan is equipped with blue LEDs that come on after the initial dust-clearing operation. They provide a nice ambience.
Removing the cooler and the separate plate that cools some of the memory and the power circuitry, we can see that for once a completely excessive amount of thermal past was not used. Finally! Six of the card's eight Hynix memory chips are mounted on the component side: four to the right of the GPU and two below. Although there's a space for two more memory chips above the GPU, the remainng two chips are mounted on the back of the card instead.
Here's the card, the cooler plate, and the Twin Frozr cooler. The separate cooler plate helps dissipate heat from the four memory chips to the right of the GPU and some power circuitry. The two memory chips below the GPU are not covered by this plate, presumablty because there's not enough clearance due to the heat pipes that come down into that area.
We'll cover the features and specifications of this card in the next section.