Final thoughts and rating
A few factors become apparent when giving the ASUS GeForce GTX 670 Direct CU II TOP a good look. The firm has done a commendable job in ensuring it stays cool and quiet in all conditions, which is a fact worth appreciating given the hike in core frequency over a reference card. Indeed, the TOP's performance is as good as a GeForce GTX 680's, thus making its £350 price tag more palatable.
And it's also better than the competing AMD Radeon HD 7900-series cards and, as we found out, than a pair of GTX 560 TOPs in SLI. For the most part, it renders the GeForce GTX 680 redundant, so based on its core strengths of speed, quietness and relative coolness, it's well worth considering if you want to game with all the bells and whistles on. Perhaps our only gripe is with the lack of out-of-the-box memory overclocking, though a quick foray with the bundled GPU Tweaking utility soon fixes this oversight.
Bottom line: The ASUS GeForce GTX 670 Direct CU II TOP 2GB is the best GTX 670 we've come across thus far, and, by extension, it's the best premium graphics card to date.
The Good
Very quiet and relatively cool
Solid core overclocking
Voltage control over the GPU
Matches GTX 680 performance
The Bad
No as-shipping memory overclocking
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ASUS GeForce GTX 670 Direct CU II TOP
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