Locally, the ASUS card is a bit of a mixed bag. First off, at S$659, it is substantially less expensive than a GeForce GTX 680, hence for local readers who want to use the card as it is, the ASUS GTX 670 DirectCU II TOP can be viewed as a cutprice GeForce GTX 680. The going other thing going for it is that if you have a compact setup, the ASUS card will be easily to SLI. However, S$659 is also a lot more than the competing Palit card and also reference GeForce GTX 670 cards (priced around S$570 locally). And considering all aspects of the card, we don't think it has done quit enough to justify the enormous markup. Hence, for local readers, it really depends on what you want out of the card. more

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In our benchmarking, we saw ASUS consistently perform about 2% above Sapphire. However, we tested Sapphire at the default BIOS 1 option, which sets the GPU core clock speed at 950MHz with 5700MHz DDR memory. At the flick of a switch, the BIOS 2 option will boost those numbers to 1000MHz and 5800MHz DDR respectively, which puts it in line with ASUS' specs (in fact, memory clock speed is 200MHz DDR higher than the ASUS card). Based on our results, we can confidently say that with the Sapphire card on BIOS setting 2, it should benchmark very close to what ASUS was giving us. more

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