Later today Nvidia’s launch partners will flood the mailbox of tech sites with press releases announcing a heap of reference GeForce GTX 280 cards but, as always, the ‘fun’ will come a little later as manufacturers launch factory-overclocked models. One such product will arrive maybe sooner than expected from one of Taiwan’s best-known companies, Asustek.

Asus’ GeForce GTX 280 TOP model will have DirectX 10 support, PCI-Express 2.0, 240 Stream Processors and 1GB of GDDR3 memory just like the ‘stock’ models and while its cooling system will be reference too, the working frequencies of the GPU, memory and SPs will be substantially higher. The TOP GTX 280 will feature a GPU clock of 670 MHz (602 MHz stock), Shaders set to 1460 MHz (1296 MHz) and memory clocked at 2430 MHz (2214 MHz) and will likely start selling around the end of this month or the beginning of July. The card’s price tag is unknown.