Introduction

Two, two, two mints in one! I know I'm too young to have seen those Certs commercials, however, that slogan has become somewhat of an American staple when talking about a combination of products. I originally heard the parody of that commercial when I used to watch old re-runs of Saturday Night Live. They had a skit during the first season of a product called "Shimmer Floor Wax". It's a dessert topping! No, it's a floor wax! I was confused because, while it was funny, I never knew the origin until my mom told me about the commercial and slogan. Now, anytime I see something that is considered two-in-one, that saying rings in my head.

When I hear the term "Dual Video Card", the first thing I think of is the old 7950 GX2. Around the time of the 7000 series is when I really started delving into the higher end video cards. I had purchased a 7800 GT for my rig and had transitioned out of shooters and into MMO games. For the longest time, I played CAL league RTCW, but then got sucked into Star Wars Galaxies and then later, The Matrix Online. The earliest knowledge I had of these Dual GPU cards was that they were always top of the line cores. This meant that the price range was WAY out of my league. The trend has kinda remained, as the next iterations ended up being the 7950 GX2, 9800 GX2, GTX 295, and most recently the GTX 590. It seemed that it was always going to be technology to push past the highest card and then some. This trend has just hit a little bump with EVGA's latest release.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2 WIN combines two 560 Ti cores on a single card. The 560 Ti 2 WIN comes with a slight overclock, running the GF114 cores at 850MHz instead of the stock 822MHz. The memory remains at the same speed of 4008MHz effective. The 2 WIN edition comes with 2GB of DDR5 to utilize. Having two GF114 cores means that there are two GPUs enabled with 384 CUDA cores. All of the NVIDIA features remain, like 3D Vision, CUDA, DirectX 11, Compute 2.1, OpenGL 4.2, and OpenCL 1.1 support. EVGA features included are a custom heatsink that uses three 70mm fans, EVGA Precision, and EVGA OC Scanner software. Also included is EVGA's excellent warranty and 24/7 technical support.