Gigabyte Radeon HD 7790 Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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www.cool.com teamor curse for more details welcome to my unboxing and first
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look at the Gigabyte HD 7790 this is a 2 gig card and it is an
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overclocked card with their windforce cooler now as you might imagine the 7790
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exists somewhere between the 7770 and
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the 7850 it uses a very similar
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overall architecture to the rest of their gcn or a graphics core next
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architecture but it's basically just sort of everything that those cards are
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except a little less or a little bit more if that makes any sense to you guys
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it does support all the usual AMD Radeon features so direct X11 ifinity with up
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to four displays off of this particular card and then let's talk a little bit
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about gigabytes windforce cooler so their brand new windforce 2X is equipped
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with a new triangle cool design two 100 mm pwm fans an 8 mil heat pipe thicker
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heat pipes are better it's just so you guys know and the triangle cool
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integrates a patented triangle-shaped aluminum block into the aluminum
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Extrusion module which enhances the speed of heat dissipation more
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effectively so that's a block right there which basically just kind of moves
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the air um from going straight down to
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going through the fins at an angle which is actually sort of smart so let's see
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what they put inside this particular card is is overclocked from a standard 1
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GHz to uh 1.75 gz so 1075 MHz comes with a quick
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start guide a Molex to PCI Express power adapter a driver disc which you should
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throw away some foam as well as a video
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card itself in an anti-static bag the anti-static bag is sealed by a piece of
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tape yay unboxings how we love them
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so there we go and the card itself is
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covered in a whole bunch of little protective coverings so check this out
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this is what they're talking about with their triangle thing so rather than just
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taking the airf flow that goes down directly through the F onto the PCB what
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they're effectively doing here is they're changing the direction a little bit although I have to wonder how much
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of it is being Chang oh yeah no a fair amount so the triangle piece goes all
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the way out to here and all the way out to about here so what that means is
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think about it this way guys if you have fins like this and air goes straight
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through them then the air passes over this much of the metal okay whereas if
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you have a fin like this and the air goes through this way then it gets to
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pass over this much of the metal effectively making the heat dissipation
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more efficient in theory this should also add a little bit of extra noise a
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little bit more turbulence but when you're using large uh slow rotating fans
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I suspect it's not going to be that much of an issue now this particular card see
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there you go more RAM on the back has the usual compliment of features I mean
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there's not really much that's Chang changed with 7790 that's probably why
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AMD opted not to go with an 8,000 series
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uh name for this particular card so it's still PCI Express 3.0 there's the
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connectors that I told you guys about which supports up to four displays so
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you've got your uh single analog output there remember guys DVID is not the same
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as DVI you can't do dual VGA off this card you've got HDMI as well as display
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port some external exhaust however due to the design of this cooler not a whole
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lot of heat is going to be coming off of there you've also got a cooler here for
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what must be some vrm components yeah it
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looks like they are it looks like um what gigabytes actually done is they've
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taken the 12vt power that comes in here routed it all the way across the card
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here where it'll be redistributed back this way because you can see this part
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of the PCB is actually quite bare and we've seen this a fair bit on recent
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cards where manufacturers are actually because they don't even need all this
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PCB space but they don't want the card to look like a little baby card they're
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just leaving a lot of blank PCB area so
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there you have it there's that 8 mil heat pipe that uh that I was talking
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about before you can see it's like you know pretty huge compared to there's a
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human pinky finger if nothing else and then a very solid block of aluminum
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makes up the rest of that cooler design so this is a relatively expensive cooler
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compared to what a reference design card would ship with so that heat pipe is
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carrying away from the solid block cooler over to the more uh thin fin type
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of Ray cooler where the second fan is doing most of its work a single PCI
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Express six pin power connector is provided and there is your Crossfire
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connector so the car does support two-way Crossfire but not three-way or
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moreway configurations thank you for checking out this unboxing of the HD
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7790 wind force from Gigabyte don't forget to subscribe to L's Tech tips for
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