No matter what the card is, if the the manufacturer is Gigabyte you will end up with a BIOS which has a locked voltage and there has been no evidence that it will change in the near future.Īs you could have seen from GPU-Z, our card was running at a 1137 MHz Gpu clock frequency which reached 1189 MHz with boost. One never changing constant in this world is Gigabyte locking voltages on its cards. And just one slight change in those parameters might cause some serious repercussions to the rest of the world (Butterfly effect). There aren’t many certainties or constants in life that you can hold on to, but they do exist. As we said triple SLi connectivity is there for anyone who wants to go crazy with multi GPU setups.Ģx 2133 Mhz Kingston HyperX Beast : KHX21C11T3K2/16X Than again we are talking about Gigabyte whose business philosophy hasn’t got in touch with the term “extra features”. A back plate could have been implemented since the card is heavy (but not as heavy as Asus DC II models). Overall build quality is very good we really have no complaints in that area. The plate surrounding the cooler is made out of metal and all of that is packed on a black custom PCB. Personally I am not one of those people who gets impressed by cards, so the Gigabyte GTX770 4GB Windforce 3x hasn’t changed anything about that. Although the card supports triple SLI configurations, you wont even get a simple SLI bridge or even a VGA to DVI adapter.
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All you will get with this card is a Quick Guide, a driver CD, one 6-pin and one 8-pin molex adapter and that’s about it. Gigabyte has never been too generous with its package content and that has proven to be the case now as well. The design is subtle but then again kinda luxurious showing you that you bought a high end card. The second you open the black inner case you see what you bought in all of its glory. If we were going to evaluate the package design we would say it has been done very well. The card is nicely packed in this black foam based material. When it comes to connectivity there is 1x Dual-link DVI-I, 1x DVI-D, one DisplayPort and one HDMI port as well. Having a custom 3 fan graphics card comes with a price but only using two slots is a win, which makes it optimal for any motherboard if you are thinking about setting up a SLI rig (good luck with the Asus DCII versions). People with mini-itx motherboards might encounter problems, since a card this long will cover some SATA ports making it very difficult to use. Since it has 3 fans you would expect this card to be very long and you are right, the Gigabyte GTX770 is 292mm long, 129mm wide and has a height of 43mm. The card supports current gen technologies such as PCI-E 3.0 standard and DirectX 11.1, as well as supporting a maximum of 4 monitors and a 4096 x 2160 digital resolution. The card features 4GB of GDDR5 ram with a 256-bit memory interface. Gigabyte has been quiet about the cards real clocks with a reason and we will deal with it a little later on.
The card comes with memory overclocked to 7010 MHz – that’s all you can really see when it comes to the cards clocks, at least according to Gigabyte’s official website. The version we have in today’s review and benchmarks.Īs we already mentioned, the card is just an overclocked and rebranded GTX680, which isn’t a bad thing in any way, but since its a Kepler chip it is made in a 28nm process. Something had to change and Gigabyte after a short time released its GTX770 Windforce 3x 4 GB version. Shortage of vram (under or at 2gb) might be a bottleneck for some of the current titles, not to mention that it wasn’t exactly future proof considering how next gen games are going to be very demanding. The GTX770 is nothing more than an overclocked GTX680 which with its higher clock rates managed to out perform AMD’s 7970 GHZ Edition. The GTX770 was Nvidia’s response to AMD’s 7970 GHz Edition, however AMD’s flagship card at that point had 3GB of ram while the GTX770 stock had only 2GB, it’s a debatable choice (even if you prefer NVidia). The Gigabyte GTX770 4GB Windforce 3X comes as an option to people who game at resolutions higher than the standard 1920x1080p, but it also comes heavily overclocked. In our GTX770 overview a few months ago we mentioned that manufacturers will probably at some point release a 4GB version.
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