GALAX is back in da house, ehm well... KFA2 I meant. See, in Europe GALAXY can't make use of the trade-name Galaxy (hello Samsung!), so at one point they named the products KFA2 for the EU. A few months ago Galaxy figured, let's just re-brand to GALAX worldwide to get one name out there, and so they did.

Unfortunately GALAX as a name is apparently taken in certain EU countries, ... so for now you'll see the branding name KFA2 return in the EU. Story to be continued? Hey, we all know it's Galaxy right... Anyhow, KFA2 releases their mid-range GeForce GTX 960 EXOC edition, yep, as in 'Extreme Overclocked'. The product comes factory overclocked with a boost clock of 1266 MHz. The product has a custom and relatively small PCB. KFA2 was on a mission, to make the card both silent whilst offering temps in the 60 to 65 Degrees C range, and hey man, mission accomplished. The card has 2 GB graphics memory, is energy efficient and comes factory overclocked for you. Let's check it out shall we?

So, it's Nvidia who is releasing the GeForce GTX 960 based products. The GM206 GPU empowering the card has been a topic of much discussion over the past few months, and let's face it... everybody expected this GPU to be based on the GPU being used in the GTX 970 and 980. Then there were delays, and the product got pushed backwards to even after Christmas. Yes, somebody made the decision that the GTX 960 should be a cheaper fab product opposed to using the more expensive GM204 that you know from the GTX 970/980. Nvidia now bakes the GM206 for the GTX 960 series, the product has been castrated and stripped of everything that is sexy with the GTX 970/980. You'll see the memory cut down to 2 GB of memory on these puppies, that memory runs on a 128-bit wide bus, the shader processors have been halved to 1024 Shader/Stream/Cuda cores.