eVGA GeForce GTX 690

EVGA GeForce GTX 690 review

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 has been hailed by the green graphics giant as 'the best graphics card that's ever been made.' That's quite a claim, but bandying around phrases like 'trivalent chromium plating' and 'injection moulded magnesium alloy' in relation to its design means this expensive ol' graphics card bears serious inspection.So yeah, before we get into all the tech pornography that is the Nvidia GTX 690 reference design - here showcased by EVGA - and it's technological make up, we do need to talk about that 830/$1000 price tag.That's a huge amount of money to spend on any PC component, and granted, 90% of us would never even think of dropping that much money on a graphics card. But there are people out there with a penchant for the fastest whatever available and with the means to purchase them. We've already covered the 1,400 Intel Xeon E5-2687W, the absolute pinnacle of CPU performance, and in relation the GTX 690 is actually rather cheap...Okay, 'cheap' might be pushing it a little but you can see where we're going with this.As the top fantasy graphics config we've been recommending the Nvidia GTX 680 in SLI configuration up to now, and that setup will cost you the same sort of price as a single GTX 690.