EVGA Announces the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified!

[onethreehill]

- September 23, 2011 — Extreme Overclockers Vince "k|ngp|n" Lucido and Illya "TiN" Tsemenko are not satisfied with the overclocking capabilities of current generation graphics cards. They want overclocking capabilities and performance that exists beyond what is traditionally considered enthusiast level. To overcome this, they began to work with EVGA on designing a new card from the ground up that is 100% focused on being the single fastest and greatest overclocking card on the block. This was accomplished with the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified.

"I wanted a graphics card that overclocked to hell and back without limits," said Vince "k|ngp|n" Lucido. "With the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified, we were able to reach GPU clockspeeds at over 1.6GHz."

"With the EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified, we focused on the key elements that the GPU and Memory need when overclocking. Power, stability, noise ripple reduction and extreme OC mode without limits. The design was created with overclocking in mind." Said Illya "TiN" Tsemenko.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified is engineered and designed to perform for everyone, from gamers to the top overclocking enthusiasts in the world. The dual slot top cooled design means that you do not need to worry about space or motherboard layout limitations, and this card supports everything from single card up to 4-way SLI out of the box....
http://www.evga.com/about/pressrelea...ult.asp?id=116

More info on GTX 580 Classified
http://www.evga.com/articles/00645/

EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified Hydro Copper 3072MB
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=

EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified Hydro Copper 1536MB
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=

EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified 3072MB
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=

EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified 1536MB
http://www.evga.com/products/moreInf...s%20Family&sw=

[Pob255]

Wow that's a lot of marketing spiel.

The basic card with a really big cooler will probably be good for overclocking, however no way would that be good for quad sli + overclocking, one of other not both, you'll want the water block version for that.

Looks great but I'd never be able to afford one.

[kalniel]

'We haven't got any new cards from nVidia so we'll just re-hype our existing ones'

[scaryjim]

'We haven't got any new cards from nVidia so we'll just re-hype our existing ones'

Well, yeah, it's September

Serious point being, most new releases target holiday season - November-ish - so there's always this little lull at the end of the summer, which leads to some very odd engineering decisions, like sticking 2GB DDR3 on a 6570

[kalniel]

Well, yeah, it's September

Serious point being, most new releases target holiday season - November-ish - so there's always this little lull at the end of the summer, which leads to some very odd engineering decisions, like sticking 2GB DDR3 on a 6570

I don't think the lull will change come November though (in the enthusiast segment). Look out for more re-spins from everyone else as well.

[CivilDrone]

As someone has mentioned, its funny how couple new stickers and increase from 795 to 800mhz tricks people into paying silly amounts of money, got meself evga gtx 580 and dont intend to spend anymore money

[KillaKingDL]

at more than £100 over the price I paid for my gtx 580 brand new...I think I'll just stick with the standard =P lol