GTX660 non-TI and GTX650 review thread

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

GTX660 non-TI

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6276/n...-kepler-family
http://techreport.com/review/23527/n...-graphics-card
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphi...gtx-660-ex-oc/
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2012/nvidia_...tx_tf_oc_test/
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforc...iew-32523.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/572-n...force-gtx-660/
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/M...ozr_III/1.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Z...Force_GTX_660/
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A..._Direct_Cu_II/
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_660_OC/
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...gb-review.html
http://www.guru3d.com/article/asus-g...ii-top-review/
http://www.guru3d.com/article/msi-ge...zr-iii-review/
http://www.guru3d.com/article/kfa2-g...-ex-oc-review/
http://www.kitguru.net/components/gr...-frozr-review/
http://www.v ortez.net/articles_pages/zotac_gtx660_review,1.html
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/876-...-sli-test.html
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/493...iew/index.html
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/...eo_card_review
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/review...roduction.html
http://www.eteknix.com/reviews/graph...s-card-review/

GTX650

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforc...iew-32523.html

[Willzzz]

And prices seem to be starting at £180 for Zotac, EVGA, PNY versions.

But £227 for the standard Asus model? really?
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/2gb-a...-960-dp-dvi-hd

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looking at OcUK it seems the HD7870 have been dropped to around £180 to £200 too. Hoping this sparks something of a price war - a £150 GTX660 or HD7870 by Christmas(or at least January) would be nice!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems the OEM GTX660TI is slower than the retail one according to Toms Hardware.

Not sure what to make of the GTX650 - power draw looks decent,but price/performance is worse than an HD7770 which itself is worse than an HD6850 1GB IMHO!!

[dacads]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/201...0-2gb-review/1
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/493...iew/index.html

[Willzzz]

Wow, Toms got a much better overclock than Hexus did.

You would think the OEM 660 would overclock really well as it starts at such low clocks for GK104.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Not including Bit-fail on principle!!

Will include the TT review.

[dacads]

Hehe was wondering why you didn't include BT

[dcwt2010]

I'd rather take results from Bit-tech than Tomshardware... sometimes I think their writers would struggle to tie their shoelaces together...

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I'd rather take results from Bit-tech than Tomshardware... sometimes I think their writers would struggle to tie their shoelaces together...

WHAT??

Do you realise that Bit-tech says my Core i3 is faster than a Phenom II X4 in HandBrake??

This lead to this thread:

http://forums.hexus.net/pc-hardware/...ded-power.html



That chart is in agreement with almost any other review website out there.

There GTX660 review is useless especially when it ends with this nonsense:

"It seems baffling that, despite what feels like a small army of SKUs, AMD doesn’t have a price-point competitor for the GTX 660 2GB. The HD 7850 2GB is 10-15 per cent slower but 10 per cent cheaper at £160, while the HD 7870 2GB is, on average, seven per cent faster but 20 per cent dearer at £220."

Which I found strange as the HD7870 has been dropped in price recently.

Then linked in the comments section to 25 HD7870 cards for between £180 to £200,they started modifying my comments to reduce the number of links,deleted my comments and then threatened to ban me.

Hilarious.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

OP updated!!

[Ferral]

Look at the Handbrake chart there you can see my 965BE (26th position) which is running at stock is faster than the i3 stock (43rd position) you have put up so going on that a 980BE would be faster still even if its just by a little. I can overclock my 965BE on the AMD stock cooler up to 3.8 but have had no need to do that presently as gaming isn't demanding it.

I wonder where they are getting their figures from and under what conditions