Asus GTX 660Ti DirectCU II TOP Graphics Card Review

Asus this time round have opted for a twin fan cooler design and like many other Asus coolers, we find it slightly offset to the right to give better airflow around the I/O end of the card. At the top and bottom we can just see the heatpipes that all lead to the GPU core.

Each of the two 80mm fans have eleven blades for whisper quiet operation and behind these we can see a part of the DirectCU II cooler.

Nestled behind the heatsink at the top end of the card, we find two 6-pin power connectors.

Unlike the GTX 660Ti’s predecessor, the 560Ti, NVIDIA now include support for more than two-way configurations, so here we see two SLI bridges for up to four-way configurations.

Finally moving round to the I/O we find a fairly standard NVIDIA output array with two DVI (one DVI-D and one DVI-I), a single HDMI and a full sized DisplayPort. To the top left we find a small grill for heat ventilation out of the card.

As standard the GTX 660Ti comes with a clock speed of 915MHz, boosting to 980MHz and a memory clock speed of 1502MHz, but as expected with the TOP selection process, stock is not enough for Asus, so leaving the memory clock at 1502MHz (6008MHz effective) we find the GPU core speed raised up to 1059MHz, consequently bringing the boost speed up to 1137Mhz. This factory overclock does turn out to be one of the highest we have seen rolled out, so we can only hope that this means this card will be sitting above all the other GTX 660Ti’s in our test results.