TGT GeForce GTX 680 BEAST LLS Review

Published by Christian Ney on 15.01.13
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Conclusion

General   + -

This BEAST LLS from TGT has definitely been able to convince us. Thanks to the factory overclocking the card is eight percent faster than the reference clocked ones.
The cooling system proved to be very good too, it was noiseless in idle and managed to keep our card cool under heavy load remaining noiseless which is quite an achievement. Furthermore we ike the Accelero Xtreme-like design, since it offers massive cooling performance.
We could blame POV/TGT for using a reference design PCB for such a graphics card but we won't because they equipped all the power stages with component and a custom PCB design would have made the card more expensive than it is already.
Still there are two things we would love they had been done in another way. First of all there is the "bundle", which is almost inexistent. There is only a manual and a driver disc, there isn't even a DVI to VGA adapter. The second thing concerns the memory overclocking. But this is something we criticize other manufacturers too, which offer factory overclocked graphics cards. TGT didn't overclock the memory although it wouldn't have been a big deal increasing the clock speed by 50 MHz. It's not much but it would make perfect sense with such a premium product.

  - Noiseless in 2D - Noiseless in 3D - Factory Overclocking
- Design
- Reference design PCB - Bundle
- No factory overclock on the memory
       
Performance   + -

Thanks to the factory overclocking the BEAST LLS is eight percent faster than the reference clocked GTX 680. Although there is a massive overlocking regarding the GPU it's not able to outperform the EVGA card we tested. The reason for that lies within the memory, since EVGA overclocks it and TGT doesn't. Still the factory overclocking on the GPU is everything but shy. Another interesting fact, which is related to the factory overclocking is, that our sample was working with 1'241 MHz all the time. It appeared to not make us of the boost feature. 1'241 MHz means that there is a factory overclocking of 183 MHz over than reference boost clock.
When it comes to the cooler, this was the best one we've ever seen, that comes shipping with a card from the factory. After one hour of FurMark, the highest temperature measured was 61°C with the fans locked at 30 % (noiseless) which is excellent. At 50 % we measured 54°C max but in this case the noise level isn't good anymore. Indeed at 50 % fan speed the cooler was as loud as the reference one. Be careful the cooler takes three slots, make sure you have enough space.
The power consumption was on a good level too. In idle it was drawing 9 Watts less than the DCU II Top. Under load it was consuming 2 Watts more.

  - Performance
- 8 % faster than the reference GTX 680 - Power Consumption

- Cooler
- Triple slot cooler
       
Recommendation   + -
We recommend this graphics card to people who are looking for a factory overclocked GTX 680 which features a very good and silent cooler. This card is about 70 € more expensive than the cheapest reference GTX 680, therefore you should be really sure that this is the exact card you want.   - Gaming
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Overclocking
 
 
We gave the TGT-680-A2-2-BST-T the almost perfect award of 4.5 out of 5 stars.





Page 1 - Introduction Page 14 - Crysis 2
Page 2 - Technical Data / Specifications Page 15 - Dragon Age 2
Page 3 - Preview / Delivery Page 16 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
Page 4 - Test Setup Page 17 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - 3DMark 11 Page 18 - StarCraft II
Page 6 - 3DMark Vantage Page 19 - Power Consumption
Page 7 - Unigine Heaven Page 20 - Fan Speed / Noise Level
Page 8 - TessMark Page 21 - Temps - Idle / FurMark
Page 9 - Alien vs Predator Page 22 - Temps - BattleField 3
Page 10 - Batman: Arkham City Page 23 - BenchMarks and Games Settings
Page 11 - DIRT 2 Page 24 - Conclusion
Page 12 - Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Page 25 - Conclusion
Page 13 - BattleField 3



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Author: Christian Ney c.ney@ocaholic.ch




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