Gigabyte GTX 780 Ti Windforce Graphics Card
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming PC look no further than the
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obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more it's as though
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Gigabyte is determined to have all of their cards look pretty much the same
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it's yet another day and yet another windforce graphics card from Gigabyte so
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this one is the GTX 780 Ti wi for it's
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clocked at 1,20 MHz base clock 1,85 MHz boost clock
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it's got 3 gigs of 7 GHz gddr5 memory on
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a 384-bit bus and unlike the 290 X wind
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force it is pretty much the same price
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as other OC cards it's actually only about a $20 at or over a reference
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cooled reference clogged card making it a very interesting option it's got a
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massive six heat pipe triple fan cooler with their triangle cool uh slanted
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airflow redirection block with a Max cooling capacity of 450 WTS although
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guys it should be noted that not all windforce cards use this exact cooler
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this particular one is very very strong 450 Watts like I said it has a six pin
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and an8 pin PCI Express connector on the top and then that's pretty much it up
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there PCI Express 3.06 connector on the bottom at the back we find not a whole
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lot except we did notice that this card uses a reference PCB so in spite of the
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clock speed and cooler differences it has the same PCB as a reference GTX
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780ti so that's a 6 plus two-phase power design it supports the usual NVIDIA
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technology so that's SLI up to four-way with those two connectors on the top GPU
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Boost 2.0 Cuda physx GeForce experience
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so that's gameplay recording and streaming as well as the allnew gsync
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which finally has some sweet monitors to
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go along with it inside the Box the usual stuff's included a couple adapters
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anti-static beds driver disc Etc but what we're really interested in is the
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performance of this card with GPU Boost
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2.0 performance is directly affected by
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the GPU temperatures and that should in theory result in better clock speeds
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both at stock and overclocked settings at stock this was definitely the case
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although likely due as much to the much higher base clock of the card as
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anything else but we overclock all of
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our cards before testing and what we discovered is that that while the card
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ran relatively cool and quiet we did not
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get a Lucky Chip and the card actually didn't overclock as well as our
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reference 780 Ti bear in mind that our reference 780 Ti is a bit of a beast we
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were lucky on that one but in general
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let this be a lesson to you in the Silicon Lottery there is no sure thing
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we have found that reference cards usually lose and non-reference cards
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usually win when it comes to overclocking performance but here's the
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proof that there are exceptions I'll hand this over to Luke to deliver the
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bad news with this card it seems like we hit a luck of the draw case our
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reference card seems to be quite fast and with this card if I tried to make it
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as fast as our reference card we actually had some problems with artifacting and Screen glitches and some
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pretty serious issues it wasn't going to run that fast I was hitting power and
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voltage limits like crazy and I just couldn't go any higher they may or may
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not be some voltage mods out there that you could try if you run into this on
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your own but not going to go there um it
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it performed actually quite well just not as fast as our reference card and
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the main thing that I liked about it considering I couldn't make it go any faster was actually how quiet and how
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low temperature it was it was really not that loud at all it was really hard to
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hear which is a good thing and it usually sat around like 70° which is
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actually really solid for a graphics card so that was totally fine like and
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dislike the video as always in the comments below are you interested in
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something like this a reference design with an after market cooler on it or are
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you someone who's going more for aftermarket PCB and aftermarket cooler
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