Conclusion
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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. |
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- Noiseless in
2D
- Noiseless in 3D
- Factory Overclocking
- Design |
- Reference design PCB
- Bundle
- No factory overclock on the memory |
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Performance |
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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. |
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- Performance
- 8 % faster than the
reference GTX 680
- Power Consumption
- Cooler |
- Triple
slot cooler |
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Recommendation |
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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. |
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- Gaming
- Overclocking |
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We gave the TGT-680-A2-2-BST-T
the almost perfect award of
4.5 out of 5 stars. |
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Author: Christian Ney
c.ney@ocaholic.ch