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The KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 Anarchy Edition arrives in a traditionally coloured Nvidia box, featuring green and black artwork. KFA2 have opted for a ‘grunge style', spray paint box design which actually works really well.
The bundle contains a software disc, literature on the product, a quick install guide and a mini HDMI to HDMI converter cable. No SLI bridge cable is supplied, unfortunately.
The PCB is literally dwarfed by the three fan Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus cooler – three 92mm fans take centerstage. The rear of the card looks fabulous, with a metal plate in position to help cool and protect the sensitive components. It is a three slot design.
The KFA2 GeForce GTX 580 Anarchy Edition is SLI capable, in 2, 3 or 4 way configurations. Just be sure to spend extra money for a high end power supply if you need more than one.
It requires an 8 pin and a 6 pin power connector to operate correctly.
The card has dual DVI out and a mini HDMI port.
Be sure to have a big enough chassis to handle these cards. The cooler can deal with 250watts of heat and is a 5 heatpipe construction, with 84 fins to help with heat dissipation. They are using a patented fan holder to remove buzzing and vibration based noises. The card is shipped with Arctic MX 4 thermal paste pre-applied.
A GPUz overview of the hardware. The KFA2 GTX580 cards are supplied at 772mhz core clock and 1002mhz from the 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory – this is connected via a 384 bit memory interface. There are 512 unified shaders onboard with 48 ROPS.
excellent, been waiting on a review of these for a very long time
Amazon have them also. I ordered one there, great deal and thanks for review.
Lol that power drain for the system is insane. I was drooling, but im glad I dont have it,. my electricity bill would be insane.
haha, total overkill. gotta love tech. Not sure id like the bill for a years worth of gaming on that system though.
Nice idea to work with arctic. I think sapphire did for a while on a range of cards didnt they?
impressive, never heard of the company. their website is great too. hope to see more of their products here
the power drain scares me for that full system. mine consumes less than 200 watts!
@ the cons
SLI cables come with SLI capable motherboards
It does come with a free game (even in the link product)
No mention that it is a triple slot cooler and thus will only fit certain motherboards in
SLI
Mine didnt come with a free game, bought it on amazon. The batman deal is with nvidia on seleected stores.
It is a disgrace these cards dont come with an SLI connector. My MSI motherboard has an SLI connector with it, but its a HARD, inflexible style connector not designed for cards of this size, so it wouldnt work. A high end card like this with a custom cooler should be supplied with a large flexible SLI connector.
If lowest price is the main deciding factor then yes. If performance and engineering of the card then most definitely no.
MSI Lighting 580 (not ridiculously overpriced Extreme Ed.) beats KFA2 580A in every test. And MSI TF3 cooling is well worth the extra few quids in price. It keeps card very cool – below 40C. In stress you can also get few degrees off vs KFA. And most important thing – cooling is a 2 slot solution which means you can easily squeeze 4 of such monsters in one case. It is pretty much impossible with KFA580A – you can do that only with min. 10 PCI slot case using PCI Express x16 risers/extenders (extra cost which nullify the advantage in price – risers are not cheap).
MSI lightning 580 is ok at best, I want this one 🙂
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-133-MS&utm_source=froogle
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