design is good, but the brand is 

i heard the service are not so good. it takes very long time for the replacement of rma unit

Anyone know when it going to release GTX 670 TI ?
Waiting for this graphic card!

MSI's flagship factory-overclocked graphics card based on the GeForce GTX 660, the N660GTX HAWK, was pictured and detailed by Expreview, earlier this week. According to the source, the card will be designed for about 15% higher core clock speeds than reference, backed by high-grade voltage regulation circuitry and the company's TwinFrozr IV cooling solution.

To begin with, the GeForce GTX 660 HAWK will ship with clock speeds of 1100 MHz core, 1176 MHz GPU Boost core clock speeds. The memory is left untouched at 6.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective). Under the hood is a 10-phase VRM that uses SSC chokes (low energy loss to noise), and IR DirectFETs. The card appears to use a high-end voltage controller that allows software voltage control, and consolidated voltage measurement points. The card draws power from two 6-pin PCIe power connectors.

Another striking feature of the GTX 660 HAWK is dual-BIOS. The card packs two physical EEPROM chips that can be toggled with a small switch along the card's length. One of the two packs the factory-OC clock/voltage profile, while the other retains a fail-safe NVIDIA-reference clock speed profile. The card also features MSI's GPU Reactor module that adds an additional set of tantalum capacitors, and ensures cleaner voltage delivery to the GPU.

Based on the 28 nm GK106 silicon, the GeForce GTX 660 packs 960 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, 24 ROPs, and a 192-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory. Display outputs include two DVI, and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI. The card can pair with any other GTX 660 card for 2-way SLI. The source did not reveal availability information.

Post the September 13 launch of GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 650, a wide performance gap between the two is more than evident, and we've known for a few weeks now that NVIDIA isn't stopping at the GTX 660, at harvesting its GK106 silicon. There are more sections of the media with plausible specifications of what is being referred to as the GeForce GTX 650 Ti, an SKU designed to let NVIDIA fill the US $130-$220 price-range, between the GTX 650 and GTX 660.

According to these new set of specifications, the GTX 650 Ti is indeed based on the GK106 silicon, but with an entire GPC disabled, resulting in a CUDA core count of 576, and TMU count of 48. The memory bus width appears to have been reduced to 128-bit, with a standard memory amount of 1 GB. With a memory clock speed of 1350 MHz (5.40 GHz GDDR5-effective), a memory bandwidth of 86 GB/s is achieved. The GPU is clocked at 960 MHz, there is no GPU Boost feature. With the given configuration, the GPU TDP is expected to be no more than 85W.

any cheap deals on gtx 660 here like leadtek, palit, or galaxy, gainward..as asus gigabyte and msi are untouchable prices here

wow that's great, congrats 

got abit regret owning this asus 680 non top version. factory only oc to 1085 boost.. now i try to reach 1175-1200boost, playing gw2, game will hang and driver crash

=((

Need to change bios or not?

"Borderlands 2" looks and plays superbly well thanks to the 680! The number of particles that kicks up, the gooey fluids, cloth effects. "F1 2012" is another stunner, with max settings and at 32X CSAA, benchmark average is 85 fps!    Need a more resource hungry game !

recently i just notice that my mobo support dual graphic card
planning to buy 2 new graphic card with high performance for less than RM200 each
any recommendation ?

8800gts SLI~!!

any ETA on when GTX660 reaching malaysia?

haha oops...let me rephrase again...i m referring 2 the non TI GTX660...hoping it will b less than RM800 at least

wanna ask u guys opinion. msi 660ti pe and asus 660ti dcu ii, which one u pick?

hi guys...
just wanna ask here..

do i need to use drive sweeper in order to install the latest 306.23 or just uninstall it normally

^ kk thax, i plan to use 3 years 1.. shud i worry bout dx12 ? i meant get cheaper 660 then dx12 can change again.

hehehe, don lipot me pls, juts wanna start a new life.

i heard window 7 getting dx11.1 update, so probably w8 getting dx12 in near future as well? soli, me noob la

Hi, recently I noticed that my MSI 680 has been running a liltte hot, idling at 68c with its fan RPM at 1300-ish. Should I RMA it?

If a company changes its product in the middle of a production run after an error becomes public, you know something’s fishy. If Nvidia steps in as well, that’s a good indication there’s something serious going on. Here’s what happened at MSI.

Our colleagues over at Tom’s Hardware Germany seem to have caught MSI red handed, overvolting the GPUs on the GTX 660 Ti and GTX 670 Ti Power Edition boards (Google Translate) to achieve a higher and longer lasting GPU boost state by basically circumventing the PWM controller. In other words, MSI was cheating. Perhaps no one would ever have known if it hadn’t been for one side effect. The increased voltage can cause the system to refuse to POST.

A quick search revealed that there are a number of threads on message boards where users report such problems, and our initial research led us to conclude that it was indeed these specific models causing trouble. What was obviously intended to provide a competitive benefit in benchmarks is apparently now backfiring.

To verify our findings and analyze their cause, we conducted some of our own research, enlisting the help of our own UK community member starcraftgod who was also affected by the issue. After comparing notes and measurements, we took a closer look at the circuit board itself. What we found there was unexpected to say the least, and it’s almost hard to believe an engineer would create something like this on purpose. In short, the PWM controller on said cards is overvolted by up to 88 percent using a small alteration to its power supply, which leads to the chip running way outside of its specifications and at significantly deviating characteristic lines. This means that too much voltage is being applied to the GPU in general and the voltage reduction under load (droop) is not as large as it should be -- and that's just one side of the story. The other is that MSI’s tinkering can cause serious side effects.


So what’s happening? A small component completely superfluous to the normal circuit in one of the ground connections causes major overvoltage in the PWM chip in question – instead of the 5 volts specified by Richtek, the chip is hit with up to 9.3 volts. That can’t be good for its life expectancy in the long run and also causes the issues we mentioned above. In combination with some PSUs, the system will be unable to start up if the 12 volt rail has to provide more that 12 volts to one of the PowerEdition models (even within the ATX spec). In other cases, MSI’s circuit trick can trigger a black screen or cause a driver crash when a change of load occurs. We find it hard to believe in a design accident here, since the circuit in question is a standard design – if implemented correctly.

MSI got back to us with a very enlightening statement.

We are currently not aware of any other vendor providing this same level of performance and we’ve worked with NVIDIA to ensure that new production models will limit this free overclock boost you currently get. Our new production models with normal GPU Boost function will be on sale next month.

Reading between the lines, we can gather that Nvidia is none too pleased with MSI going off on their own.

(skip to 12:30mins) this is so hilarious when Linus accused MSI is "cheating" & MSI admitted. now they cheating again...

beware of failed asus dcii gtx670, read the user review here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...#scrollFullInfo]user review[/URL]