Product Showcase

The card is 8.6 Inches in length which is like 22 cm and thus complies with ATX standards, these cards will be excellent for silent running HTPCs whilst offering strong performance. 

Here we can see the backside of the PCB. All memory is located at the fonrside of the PCB, the memory unfortunately is tied towards a 128-bit bus, and that is pretty narrow. As such these cards will be memory bandwidth limited to some degree.

The temps remain absolutely fine though and the noise levels are incredibly low. To the lower right side of the PCB you can also see DIP solder points for a power connector, though not needed (even when overclocked) you will see some board partners offer a model with external power connector. The new Maxwell GPU is very energy efficient and thus doesn't really require that external power connector. But that'll be a choice for the board partners to make, MSI did not embed external power connectors either.