Thursday, January 19th 2012
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Gigabyte's Custom-Cooled, Overclocked Radeon HD 7970 Gets Official
Gigabyte Technology has now added to its website a second Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, the (previously-leaked) model codenamed GV-R797OC-3GD which features a dual-slot, triple-fan cooler, a custom PCB, and a GPU clocked at 1000 MHz (the standard frequency is 925 MHz).
Gigabyte's customized HD 7970 also has an Ultra Durable VGA construction (2oz copper PCB, Tier 1 memory, Japanese Solid Capacitor, Ferrite Core Chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET), a 384-bit memory interface, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM set to 5500 MHz (no overclock here, unfortunately), DVI, HDMI and dual Mini DisplayPort outputs, and CrossFireX support. The GV-R797OC-3GD's price tag has yet to be revealed.
Gigabyte's customized HD 7970 also has an Ultra Durable VGA construction (2oz copper PCB, Tier 1 memory, Japanese Solid Capacitor, Ferrite Core Chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET), a 384-bit memory interface, 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM set to 5500 MHz (no overclock here, unfortunately), DVI, HDMI and dual Mini DisplayPort outputs, and CrossFireX support. The GV-R797OC-3GD's price tag has yet to be revealed.
13 Comments on Gigabyte's Custom-Cooled, Overclocked Radeon HD 7970 Gets Official
can't wait how far this baby will go with that cooler
-still not going to buy amd-:P
You could just buy this that is overclock higher and in stock ready to buy right now.
www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-207-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=938
so its a cooler thats not that great on a reference PCB at a higher price, Gigabyte kinda has it beat on everything except availability
for those who dont know
XFX lifetime warranty only applies to there aftermarket NON REFERENCE PCB gpus, read the fine print the double dissipation 7970 does get lifetime warranty but its NOT transferable seems they changed the wording again on there site edited for accuracy
so yea ill take the quieter better cooled gigabyte gpu :toast:
altho im really just waiting on MSI and there Twin Frozr III variant like alot of other people i bet.
so in response to that i would take a Gigabyte 7970 over an XFX currently. dosent help most XFX aftermarket cooled cards have utterly craptastic coolers.
but from appearances there 2 year warranty = you replace the cooler you void the warranty, where as with cards that have the lifetime warranty you can replace the cooler, they've really made a mess of there warranty service as far as im concerned
Gigabytes is pretty damn simple its 3 years good to go done lol no special this or that or exceptions for this gpu but not for that one etc etc.
and damn it why couldnt Gigabyte give out a release date. would be nice to know when the aftermarket gpus are going to hit the market.
As for this card ? Man I would LOVE 2 of them , Sadly I can not afford them !They Just look so awesome !
HD 7000 series gets a limited 2 year warranty unless its a custom XFX card so yea they are shitty, there basically dropping there awesome warranty service on the GPUs that matter aka Reference cards which have the best compatibility with waterblocks and aftermarket coolers.
eitherway im not a fan of blue if this was red and black i would buy it asap