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Friday, May 4, 2012

The Monster: GeForce GTX 690


SO, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 was just released yesterday, and this thing is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. It has 4Gb of dedicated video memory, a power draw of 300W, and other ridiculous specifications (for a full list of specification click here. That't not all that makes this card crazy, the GTX 680 was said to be equivalent to THREE GTX 580's, and the 690 is said to be even better than that. This graphics card can handle absolutely anything you could imagine, and then some. The average person wouldn't even need a 6th of this card's capabilities, and even at that they would still have more than enough power. Now for a crazy card, you also get a rather steep price, if you want to get this card you will have to pay upwards of $1,000 for it. That's the same amount I spent building my entire computer, and my computer is a monster as well. And even if you were to get this card, you would need a bad ass motherboard and CPU to go along with it, so you could get the full performance. In the end, this thing is amazing and as they say on their website "The fastest graphics card in the world", although I have no doubt that relatively soon there will be a new "fastest" card.

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