Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 Windforce Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,275 words · ~6 min read
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performance welcome to my unboxing and first look at the GeForce GTX 770
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windforce OC version according to Gigabyte here from Gigabyte this is as
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you may or may not have figured out by now a GeForce gtx770 it is overclocked
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and more importantly than the factory overclock it has gigabytes windforce
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cooler so their windforce cooler uses a triple fan design each of these fans
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being 75 mm in diameter as well as one
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of the beefiest come on out there we go as well
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as one of the beefiest heat sink designs that I have ever seen but I'm not going
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to let you feas oriz on the card just yet I'm going to make you look at oh wow
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look at them accessories is that two Molex to PCI Express adapters wow wow
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one six pin 18 pin so cool next oh is
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that a driver disc wing and quick graphics card
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installation guide although if you don't like gigabytes installation guide then you can check out my installation guide
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which is a video which is obviously better cuz videos are awesome all right
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so the cooler itself there's your three 75 mm fans all right there is your
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massive array of heat sink fins so check
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this out you have a huge block of fins over here on the left a huge block of
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fins over here on the right you can also see from the side over here there are
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five heat pipes coming out this side so two of them are 8 mm heat pipes so these
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are massive thick heat pipes and then the other four of the heat pipes that
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are on the card itself are 6 mm heat pipes so you can see which direction
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they're all going in actually five of them go off this way and then one of
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them loops around and comes out this side in order to effectively spread the
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heat away from the GPU itself and then onto the rest of the components now
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Gigabyte has done a couple of unique things to improve the efficiency of the
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cooler so number one is they have added this triangle shape is what they're
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calling it it's not quite a triangle because it has a flat top and I hope you
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guys can see this so if you check this out there's a flat top there and then
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there are angled uh angled pieces that are going to cause the air flow to be
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more directed than you would have normally seen with a windforce cooler in
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the past so what this will do is it'll take the air flow and it'll bring it in
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through the fan and then drive it up this way and down this way as a opposed
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to causing an additional turbulence by having it interfere with the air flow
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from this fan which will then be directed this way and this way this guy
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over here is kind of on his own but this serves two purposes not only to cool the
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GPU core itself with all the heat that it's getting from those heat pipes but
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also to cool the vrm components so that is the voltage delivery our voltage
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regulation modules all of the stuff that turns that 12vt power that comes in from
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the PCI Express connectors into something that a GPU and memory and all
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of that can use now speaking of memory it has a full memory plate so that is
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responsible for cooling the 7 GHz gddr5
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memory that you'll find on pretty much any GeForce GTX 770 graphics card and
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Gigabyte has gone with a modest overclock on the GPU core so it is well
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in excess of a of over 1 GHz however
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this is the trick when you have a very solid cooler on one of these graphics
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cards because of GPU Boost 2.0 and the way that it works where it actually
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monitors your voltage your temperature so bear that in mind for later the power
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usage as well as the clock speed the cooler you can keep the card the closer
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to within your temperature limit you can keep it the faster it will actually
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perform which before GPU Boost 2.0 was never really true so even though one
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Factory overclocked Card might come with clock speed a and one might come with
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clock speed B the one with the better cooler may actually be running at a
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higher clock speed more of the time particular if you're in a hot region now the card
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is very standard in terms of its shape and size it is a twoos slot card in
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spite of its 450 watts of heat dissipation which we saw a demo of at
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computex it is real it is actually a thing which I thought was pretty darn
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cool it's got the standard layout of ports so you've got two DVI ports as
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well as one HDMI and one DisplayPort Port you've also got two fingers for SLI
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up here giving you compatibility with two-way three-way and potentially
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four-way SLI although NVIDIA does doesn't spend much time talking about
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four-way SLI anymore because the reality of it is it doesn't really scale that
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well down at the bottom of the card we've got a PCI Express 3.0 16x
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connector and then you can see that this is a completely non-reference card so it
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uses gigabytes Ultra durable concept which basically amounts to beefier
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components and improved efficiency less heat output and all that good stuff that
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you expect from an aftermarket cooled card up on the top of the card we've got
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the six pin PCI Express power adapter as well as an eight pin PCI Express power
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adapter and a pretty cool sort of lattice work looking shroud that is
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attached to the one thing that I'd say is kind of non-standard about this card
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and that is the wind Force branding up here at the top but as long as you don't
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have a very narrow case and something like a side panel fan that might
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interfere with this you're not going to have too much difficulty now I wouldn't
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be completely finishing this video if I didn't mention some of the things that
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it comes with so it has adaptive vsync which allows you to take advantage of
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the benefits of vsync as well as the benefits of not using vsync it also has
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has the GeForce experience which keeps your drivers up to date and gives you
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suggestions for what settings to run your games at and later on is going to
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be adding Shadow play which is pretty cool it just will use the built-in h264
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encoding on your card in order to record the last 20 minutes or less or however
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much you want of your gameplay so that you can save it for gameplay videos
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later it also supports 3D Vision as well as NVIDIA surround so that is up to
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three displays in surround and one auxiliary display and I think that is
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