Card Layout and Pictures

As per the norm with reference cards, our GTX 650 Ti Boost came in wrapped up in a static protective bag, no special packaging.

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The fan shroud on the GTX 650 Ti Boost may look familiar, that is because this is the exact same one as the GTX 660 as I mentioned in our breakdown of the cards features. For a reference design it is very stylish. They have tried to bring the same styling from the GTX 690 and Titan cards have into their sweet spot cards. In a way I like the styling but I did prefer the cleaner look of the GTX 680 itself.  As for cooling, this is a sealed design for the most part meaning it will pull air in from inside of the case and blow it out of the back PCI slots. This is much better than video cards that blow hot air into your case. Sure they will keep the card cool but they will also warm up everything else in your case as well.

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The fan on the GTX 650 Ti Boost is gigantic. Due to the shorter PCB of the card, Nvidia was able to extend the fan shroud out and pack in a larger fan that pushes a considerable amount of air across the card to keep things cool.

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Around back you can see what I was talking about with how they were able to fit such a large fan. The GTX 650 Ti Boost’s PCB is short but the fan shroud extends past to make it a normal length card. This is still considerably larger than the reference design of the GTX 650 Ti though, it was the only card that my wife has called “cute” due to its small size.  Also out back you will notice the black PCB, hopefully we see most of the venders continue with this as it does look better in most situations over green and blue.

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For a power connection, just like the GTX 670 and GTX 660 the power is down at the end of the PCB in the middle of the card. For power you only need one six pin connection to push the cards 134 watt TDP. On the fan shroud they did leave a little extra room for ease of getting as the plug as well.

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Unlike its non-boosted brother, the GTX 650 Ti Boost also has an SLI connection available for future expansion.

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The PCI slot is packed full of connections. You have two DVI connections (one dual link and one single) an HDMI port, and a display port connection as well. The HDMI and Display port connections are both full sized meaning they won’t require weird adapters or special cables that are harder to come by. I would personally like to see two HDMI ports rather than an HDMI and then a Display Port. This would make setting up a 3+1 setup much easier in the future.

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garfi3ld's Avatar
garfi3ld replied the topic: #30172 26 Mar 2013 16:41
a look at Nvidia's latest video card
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Arxon replied the topic: #30173 26 Mar 2013 17:17
you should give me the code for WoT :D
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Myndmelt replied the topic: #30174 26 Mar 2013 17:27
I need a boost. ;)
$169 is not bad, not bad at all.
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garfi3ld replied the topic: #30201 28 Mar 2013 04:15
anyone planning on picking one up?

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