for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the
obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more it's as though
Gigabyte is determined to have all of their cards look pretty much the same
it's yet another day and yet another windforce graphics card from Gigabyte so
this one is the GTX 780 Ti wi for it's
clocked at 1,20 MHz base clock 1,85 MHz boost clock
it's got 3 gigs of 7 GHz gddr5 memory on
a 384-bit bus and unlike the 290 X wind
force it is pretty much the same price
as other OC cards it's actually only about a $20 at or over a reference
cooled reference clogged card making it a very interesting option it's got a
massive six heat pipe triple fan cooler with their triangle cool uh slanted
airflow redirection block with a Max cooling capacity of 450 WTS although
guys it should be noted that not all windforce cards use this exact cooler
this particular one is very very strong 450 Watts like I said it has a six pin
and an8 pin PCI Express connector on the top and then that's pretty much it up
there PCI Express 3.06 connector on the bottom at the back we find not a whole
lot except we did notice that this card uses a reference PCB so in spite of the
clock speed and cooler differences it has the same PCB as a reference GTX
780ti so that's a 6 plus two-phase power design it supports the usual NVIDIA
technology so that's SLI up to four-way with those two connectors on the top GPU
Boost 2.0 Cuda physx GeForce experience
so that's gameplay recording and streaming as well as the allnew gsync
which finally has some sweet monitors to
go along with it inside the Box the usual stuff's included a couple adapters
anti-static beds driver disc Etc but what we're really interested in is the
performance of this card with GPU Boost
2.0 performance is directly affected by
the GPU temperatures and that should in theory result in better clock speeds
both at stock and overclocked settings at stock this was definitely the case
although likely due as much to the much higher base clock of the card as
anything else but we overclock all of
our cards before testing and what we discovered is that that while the card
ran relatively cool and quiet we did not
get a Lucky Chip and the card actually didn't overclock as well as our
reference 780 Ti bear in mind that our reference 780 Ti is a bit of a beast we
were lucky on that one but in general
let this be a lesson to you in the Silicon Lottery there is no sure thing
we have found that reference cards usually lose and non-reference cards
usually win when it comes to overclocking performance but here's the
proof that there are exceptions I'll hand this over to Luke to deliver the
bad news with this card it seems like we hit a luck of the draw case our
reference card seems to be quite fast and with this card if I tried to make it
as fast as our reference card we actually had some problems with artifacting and Screen glitches and some
pretty serious issues it wasn't going to run that fast I was hitting power and
voltage limits like crazy and I just couldn't go any higher they may or may
not be some voltage mods out there that you could try if you run into this on
your own but not going to go there um it
it performed actually quite well just not as fast as our reference card and
the main thing that I liked about it considering I couldn't make it go any faster was actually how quiet and how
low temperature it was it was really not that loud at all it was really hard to
hear which is a good thing and it usually sat around like 70° which is
actually really solid for a graphics card so that was totally fine like and
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