KFA2 GeForce GTX 760 EX OC 2GB Graphics Card Review

Andy Ruffell / 11 years ago

As I mentioned earlier, it’s been a while since we’ve had a play with anything from KFA2, but it’s clear to see that nothing has changed, and they still are a top industry leading brand who do things slightly differently. They don’t believe in following the standard and instead would rather wait a little while before releasing something special with a custom PCB, unique cooling design and crazy factory overclocks, and that’s worth waiting for.

Style wise, I’m very impressed to say the least with a unique design that doesn’t follow in the footsteps of Asus and MSI, we find KFA2 sticking to their roots with the GTX 660 cooler that helped drive sales for them. Our sample as you may have noticed says 600 series on it, but we have been assured that sales stock will not feature this, and it’s purely due to ours being an early review media sample. The aspect that I love of the cooler and that really stands out to me, is that it can be cleaned with ease, and this is something KFA2 have focused on for years and it separates them from the rest and that’s a good thing, as in this day and age, you need to be different or go home, and KFA2 decided to be different, so kudos to them for that.

Performance straight out of the box is stellar and saw some really strong results across the board with certain tests seeing improved scores over a reference AMD HD 7970 which as we know retails for around £300, which is quite a bit more than the MSRP on this card. Other benchmarks saw performance close to that of the GTX 670 overclock and GTX 770 giving fantastic performance as long as the price is right, but we’ll get around to that in a minute.

One key area that we were excited to see was hoo far the GK104 core could be pushed, and this actually surprised us slightly as we was expecting good things, but nothing like we saw today with some huge numbers on both the GPU core and memory clocks. The increases were absolutely amazing and the performance in 3DMark 11 of 20.2% is a real impressive number to say the least, and we can only assume that the patented cooler that has been strapped upon this card has helped assist the overclock by providing good airflow and keeping temperatures to a minimum. We also saw that the acoustics on this card and the temperatures at both idle and load were impressive too and with power consumption similar to that of the GTX 660Ti OC, KFA2 can take some appreciation for that too.Priced at £227.99 from Overclockers UK, it’s actually under the price of an AMD Radeon HD 7950 in certain cases, but as we saw from the performance straight out of the box, the GTX 760 EX OC from KFA2 performed a lot better and in some cases, performed better than the Radeon HD 7970 which is priced at £300 as we mentioned. Keeping all of this in mind, the GTX 760 EX OC certainly does give amazing value for money and is fairly quiet at the same time, making it tick the right boxes in all areas, especially when you consider how far it can be pushed by overclocking, and this will help boost performance even further. Looking back at our 3DMark 11 overclock score, it would easily put this card well above a 7970 Matrix Platinum from Asus, which is an expensive card in its own right.With that said, if you are after value for money and want the complete package, then KFA2 have it waiting for you, and with a good solid price point and unique cooling solution, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better card for your money on the market today.

Pros

Unique design
Cool and quiet
Fan cleaning system is welcome addition
Hefty overclock straight out of the box
Two SLI connectors
Stellar performance
Huge room to push the clocks further
Good value price point

Cons

None

eTeknix Says: The GTX 760 is as of writing this the newest graphics card on the planet, and straight away it is offering amazing performance for the money. KFA2 have realised the potential of the card and managed to push things further, giving even better bang for buck and increasing the performance to rival AMD.