Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X Review

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Let's start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.

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So as you can see, the GeForce GTX Titan X is looking a lot like the GeForce GTX 690 / 780 / 780 Ti and Titan series, a similarly fashioned cooler is being used. This round however there are subtle changes in aesthetics, a very nice dark design will give the product a much better feel in today's desktop gaming PC where black and white dominate in terms of colors used. Nvidia did something cool though, the card looks pretty identical to previous models with subtle changes here and there and that nickel alloy cooler shroud. There's now also a nice green LED in the fan housing (controlled with GeForce Experience) and the logo is displayed in white. The heatsink shell is made from cast aluminum and an injection molded magnesium alloy. This is a good conductor of heat, plus it helps out with isolating noise. And preventing noise for this product was key for Nvidia. Overall, these reference coolers are OK -- we'd love to see some liquid cooling on these puppies though.

 

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The card itself is the standard dual-slot solution, its cooling is vapor chamber based. That cooler is still pretty good, the cooler's Plexiglass allows you to actually look into the heatsink's aluminum fins. The fan is outfitted with a special design, its airflow is carefully directed to take in air from the PC and exhaust it outside the PC, in order to optimize cooling efficiency while minimizing noise causing restrictions. Each Titan X will have a maximum power design of roughly 250 Watts, but yes, these are made to overclock as well. As such, Nvidia is using one 150 Watts 8-pin PEG and one 75 Watts 6-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connector. Another 75 to 150 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot and thus motherboard. 


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GeForce GTX Titan X will offer four display connectors; you'll spot three DisplayPort connectors, one full size HDMI connector and one DVI connector (dual-link). Dual-link DVI does not mean you can hook up two monitors to one connector. Dual-link means double the signal, that way monitor resolutions up-to 2560x1440/1600 can be supported or, say, a 120 Hz monitor at 1080P. As you can see, no backplate. The opinions on backplates differ per person. Of course they protect the backside of the PCB and its components, but backplates can also easily trap heat. And then they are often added for aesthetic reasons of course. 

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