When the dual-PCB GTX 295 debuted back in January, you knew right away that nVidia was more than likely going to make a card that fell between the GTX 280 and GTX 260 to capture that price and performance point. If it was not obvious, you just were not thinking hard enough! Lo and behold, April 2, 2009 the GTX 275 made its debut at a price point below that of the GTX 280/285, offering performance almost on par with it and meant to compete with ATI's HD4890 launched at the same time. Coincidence? I think not! But here we are two months later with ASUS's rendition of the GTX 275.The ASUS ENGTX275 is a combination of the GTX 260 and GTX 280, using 240 shader cores under the heatspreader from the GTX 280 and 896MB of GDDR3 memory running on a 448-bit BUS straight from the GTX 260. Clock speeds on this ASUS variant are the stock clock speeds of 633MHz on the core, 1404MHz on the shader processors and 1134MHz on the memory. One thing the ASUS variant features is the use of their "Ultimate Armaments". These "armaments" are basically components used to improve on the reference design and provide a video card that can run cooler, longer and more efficiently. Let's take a look and see if the ENGTX275 construction is a benefit and whether or not it allows for more overclocking than the reference design.
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