Colorful GeForce GTX 670 Graphics Card Pictured.

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http://www.techpowerup.com/165336/Co...-Pictured.html

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Here are the first pictures of Colorful GeForce GTX 670. The card, according to the source, sticks to NVIDIA reference design. It's not much different from the other GeForce GTX 670 cards pictured till date, but it's the card's rear view picture that caught our attention. We noticed from pictures of MSI's card, that the two 6-pin PCI-E power connectors are located more towards the central portion of the card, than towards the end, this led us to believe that the GTX 670 will have a shorter than usual PCB, which these latest pictures confirm.

The PCB (rear) picture reveals quite a few things. To begin with, the VRM area is moved to the front portion of the PCB, similar to AMD's HD 7800 series. A great deal of compacting has been done, the eight GDDR5 memory chips are spread across both sides of the PCB (four on each side), probably to manage heat and wiring better. The portion of the cooler that's sticking out of the card needn't pack metal parts (heatsinks), there's just a chamber for the fan. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 670 is expected to launch later this month.

That's one short PCB

Spets · 05-03-2012, 09:31 | posts: 1,427

That thing is tiny!
Looks like they're really experimenting with their cards here.

isidore · 05-03-2012, 09:34 | posts: 5,597 | Location: Germany, Nürnberg (for now)

what's the point of shrinking the card, if you are going to mount the same big ass cooler on it!! :|

Spets · 05-03-2012, 09:43 | posts: 1,427

Probably a way to keep temps down. Guess we'll find out once it's released.

Lane · 05-03-2012, 11:45 | posts: 4,864 | Location: Switzerland

PWM worry me the most for a 670 ( so a 680 with one SMX disabled )..

If they have decided to cut pcb, i dont know what could have happend to the PWM .

h0d · 05-03-2012, 11:47 | posts: 188 | Location: Québec

Rustic shape

Foamy4 · 05-03-2012, 12:16 | posts: 453 | Location: Denmark

awww it's so cute.

Sever · 05-03-2012, 12:58 | posts: 4,826 | Location: Land of the Great Downunder

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Originally Posted by isidore

what's the point of shrinking the card, if you are going to mount the same big ass cooler on it!! :|

cheaper to make a card with a shorter pcb. plus, normally directly under the sideblower fan is a vacuum as thats where it sucks the air from, parts directly under the fan generally arent cooled well (think back to the amd hd5000 series, vrms got quite hot).