Friday, April 11th 2014
Gigabyte Bundling GeForce GTX Titan Black with WindForce Cooler
Just like it did with the first Titan, Gigabyte Technology has decided on pairing up NVIDIA's GeForce GTX Titan Black with its own WindForce 3X 600W cooling system. There is a catch to this solution though as buyers will need to replace the stock cooler of the GTX Titan Black with Gigabyte's three-fan solution.
The Titan card available in this bundle has its 6 GB of GDDR5 memory at the standard frequency (7,000 MHz) but the GPU has higher than stock clocks - the base clock is 1006 MHz (up from 889 MHz) while the boost clock is 1111 MHz (980 MHz stock). The rest of the specs are as expected - 2880 CUDA Cores, a 384-bit memory interface, 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
The card+cooler bundle is codenamed GV-NTITANBLKGHZ-6GD-B and is currently available for pre-order starting at about 910 Euro.
The Titan card available in this bundle has its 6 GB of GDDR5 memory at the standard frequency (7,000 MHz) but the GPU has higher than stock clocks - the base clock is 1006 MHz (up from 889 MHz) while the boost clock is 1111 MHz (980 MHz stock). The rest of the specs are as expected - 2880 CUDA Cores, a 384-bit memory interface, 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
17 Comments on Gigabyte Bundling GeForce GTX Titan Black with WindForce Cooler
Anyway, funny how NVIDIA still butchers their bleeding edge products by colsing them to changes... (someone had to make that comment)
Could be recent, but the only thing new is that it is being placed in a Titan.
TBH I really doubt that this cooler can move 600W at room temperature. The 450W cooler on my 290x can't keep up after voltage exceeds 1.35v even with 17C ambient.
I just want to see how well the cooler performs seeing as it is good for 600W.
The frame was metal also in my GTX470 SOC since you guys wondered it.
oh well the idea is nice, i like that kind of commercial gimmick (fun part : when you realize that the stock cooler from nV is better than that "600" WDF3X after trying it and you decide to revert, oh maybe a bit hotter but it expel the hot air on the back of the case ... a Blower type can have it hard, being noisy (not that one tho ... good job nV ) but has some advantage over a perpendicular fine pattern ... i prefer parallel type ... )
maybe we will see some 600w WDF3X on ebay soon, instead of stock Titan black cooler :roll:
(i reckon Gigabyte card runs fine and the WDF cooler is a good one)