- The GTX 580 PNY graphics card is a fantastic card. Still the best single graphics card on the market.I was impressed by the power and quality of the graphics that this item produced. However, my problems arose right out of the box. For such an expensive item, you would likely expect all of the possibly needed peripheral connectors to be included. WRONG! There is no dual 6 pin-to-8 pin converter. It comes with a dual molar (4 pin)-to-6 pin connector, but how many high computers will rely on molar connectors to power a GTX 580?I have an XPS 720 with a Intel Core 2 Quad processor and a 1 KW power supply. It is a 3 year old, 3,000 dollar gaming PC. Not top-of-the-line by todays standards but still…
- I bought this card nine months ago. With the exception of some minor driver issues that were corrected by an nVidia patch a few months later, it worked fine for all that time. I play a lot of games, so I used the card heavily during those nine months.A few days ago, the card stopped working. The fan still spins, but the card no longer sends any data to the monitor. A PNY tech told me that my power supply is probably to blame rather than the card, but I replaced the card with a GTX 590, which works just fine. So it seems very likely to me that the card is dead.PNY provides a one-year warranty, which is extended to "lifetime" if the card is registered within 90 days. I registered the…
- Chipset: GTX580 Engine Clock: 772 MHz Video Memory: 1536MB DDR5
- Memory Clock: 4.008 GHz Memory Interface: 384-bit
- Bus: PCI-Express 2.0 x16 RAMDAC: 400 MHz Stream Processors: 512
- Memory Bandwidth: 192.4 GB/sec Max. Resolution: 2560 x 1600 Connectors: Dual DVI, Mini HDMI Thermal: Fansink
- Support Microsoft Windows 7/XP/Vista Supports nVidia PhysX Technology Support nVidia CUDA Technology
- Support HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection Support Microsoft DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1
- Support nVidia 3D Vision Surround Ready Support nVidia PureVideo HD Technology
