Review: KFA² NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 EX OC

Final thoughts and rating

NVIDIA's newest gaming GPU is the GeForce GTX 660. Priced at £179 for basic cards and rising to some £200 for factory-overclocked models, it has been designed to offer a solid gaming experience at a full-HD, 1,920x1,080-resolution common on most monitors purchased today.

Based on a full implementation of a cut-down Kepler core, known as GK106, and presented in what we believe to be a better-balanced architecture than GTX 660 Ti, performance is competitive against the Radeon HD 7850 and Radeon HD 7870 cards it will invariably be up against.

The best way to think about the GTX 660 is to consider that its performance is, generally speaking, about the same as the last-generation's best NVIDIA card, GTX 580, released in November 2010, but this new mid-range card consumes considerably less power, has a broader feature-set, and, at launch, is less than half the price. We'll leave it up to you to decide if that represents value-for-money in your book.

Changing gears, KFA² GTX 660 EX OC is a nice example of how to turn a GPU into a well-rounded card. Quiet, cool and visually attractive, we reckon it'll do well if priced comfortably below £200.

The Good

GTX 660 architecture offers solid 1080p gaming performance
KFA²'s card is quiet, cool and attractive
Even-smaller GTX 660s should be in the offing

The Bad

Labouring a point, the tiny GPU should cost less
Our sample doesn't overclock well

HEXUS Rating

KFA² GeForce GTX 660 EX OC

HEXUS Awards

KFA² GeForce GTX 660 EX OC

HEXUS Where2Buy

The KFA² GeForce GTX 660 EX OC graphics card is available to purchase from Overclockers UK.

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