The card certainly has an element on style and class to it with a large dual-fan cooler encompassing over the whole card. The fans are both branded with the model name of the card and the centre of the card includes a gold panel with the JetStream design that we’ve seen on the packaging.
The two large fans also use a unique fan blade design which have a ripple effect which should assist in keeping the card cooling to maximum performance.
Moving closer to the card, we immediately find two 6-pin PCI-Express connectors on the top of the card, but unlike most cards which see these towards the end, the Palit JetStream edition see these power connectors located near the middle of the card.
Moving along the top of the card we find two SLI connectors allowing us to run three of these cards in SLI at the same time to get the very best gaming experience.
Lastly moving on to the rear I/O of the card we can see two DVI ports, a DisplayPort connector and HDMI port. Also on the rear I/O of the card are some ventilation slats to help with exhausting hot air out of the rear of your chassis.
Taking a look at GPU-Z, we can see that straight out of the box, the card is overclocked to 1006MHz from the stock 915MHz which also gives us a boost clock of 1085MHz. The memory is also increased from the stock 1502MHz to 1527MHz (6.1GHz effective). It really seems like Palit mean business with this card, and further on we will be overclocking the card further past these levels to see how far it can be pushed under the JetStream cooling technology.
It’s really impressive. I thought the narrower memory bus would strangle it but it’s not to be. Makes you wonder why people would spend the extra scratch on a GTX 670
because when you get a GTX 670 you can also overclock that. Most reviews tend to go for the “if you overclock this card (the GTX 660Ti in this case) you can catch up with the next one in the series” (the GTX 670) but then if you had the next one in the series (the GTX 670) you could overclock that too and reach the next one in the series (GTX 680)..and the cycle continues…
I know. It’s a vicious cycle. I was sceptical of my GTX 660Ti because of the narrow bus but I decided on it just via reading reviews. I’m glad I did & saved the extra money I would’ve spent on a GTX 670.
Ryan has a point with the overclock thing. I was waiting for the EVGA GTX 670 FTW but since then I got a EVGA GTX 660 Ti (standard edition) and I’m glad I saved my self half the cost, there isn’t a single game I can’t max out on everything. I only run 1920×1080, but check another one of these into SLI and you’ve got a system to be proud of.
For goodness’s sake, please change the COLOR of the graph, and highlight the scores for the card you are reviewing against its closest competitors. It was PAINFUL to read those graphs. Seriously.
Otherwise a decent review.