Gigabyte HD 7970 Super OC 3 GB

W1zzard · Jul 25, 2012

Gigabyte's HD 7970 SOC introduces a new cooling concept. Instead of placing the fan(s) on the large surface of the heatsink like on all recent graphics cards, the company chose to position five small fans along the top edge of the card. Our review will investigate whether the card will be too noisy and too big, or if it can truly provide some benefit.

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qubit · Jul 31, 2012

Great review, W1zz.

DOM · Jul 31, 2012

LOL so that cooler is all show XD

Still a nice review

Supercrit · Jul 31, 2012

Slap 2 high speed 120mm fans maybe the temp should be much better, the cooler looks insane, heat chamber and heatpipes with such high fin density scream for big powerful fans.

VulkanBros · Jul 31, 2012

Supercrit said:
Slap 2 high speed 120mm fans maybe the temp should be much better, the cooler looks insane, heat chamber and heatpipes with such high fin density scream for big powerful fans.

Yes - but as Wiz pointed out - in CF configurations this fan configuration would be better,
especially if the PCI-E ports are tight together - or water cooling

DOM · Jul 31, 2012

VulkanBros said:
Yes - but as Wiz pointed out - in CF configurations this fan configuration would be better,
especially if the PCI-E ports are tight together - or water cooling

I ran two ref 7970 on my gene and the top card gets in the mid 80's so I think this cooler is still a big fail

Idk why would anyone would approve that cooler to make it to retail... Imo its ugly and looks like a getto mod :roll:

gopal · Jul 31, 2012

Seems to me like a box full of sweet, but i only see one problem triple slots

qubit · Jul 31, 2012

The fan noise is about where I expect it to be (loud) with five small fans and not acceptable. If I wanted a three-slot card, I'd get one of the other designs with 2 or 3 large, quiet fans on it.

On of the major points about getting such a huge cooler is to have the damned thing run quiet, while delivering excellent cooling performance and overclocking. I'm not sure what Gigabyte were thinking with this one.

gopal · Jul 31, 2012

qubit said:
The fan noise is about where I expect it to be (loud) with five small fans and not acceptable. If I wanted a three-slot card, I'd get one of the other designs with 2 or 3 large, quiet fans on it.

On of the major points about getting such a huge cooler is to have the damned thing run quiet, while delivering excellent cooling performance and overclocking. I'm not sure what Gigabyte were thinking with this one.

I have no problem with loud fans, but i do have problem with triple slots

qubit · Jul 31, 2012

gopal said:
I have no problem with loud fans, but i do have problem with triple slots

Indeed, I never buy triple slot cards myself.

tt_martin · Jul 31, 2012

W1zzard, 7970 Ghz Edition has not been included in performance summary graphs, will you add its results from now on?

INSTG8R · Jul 31, 2012

Wacky cooler fail?

Rowsol · Jul 31, 2012

How can a 3 slot card be noisy in idle? fail.

gopal · Jul 31, 2012

tt_martin said:
W1zzard, 7970 Ghz Edition has not been included in performance summary graphs, will you add its results from now on?

Do we have a performance summary graph page?
Can you give me a link to it?

W1zzard · Jul 31, 2012

tt_martin said:
W1zzard, 7970 Ghz Edition has not been included in performance summary graphs, will you add its results from now on?

yes, also note the awesome new games we added

gopal · Jul 31, 2012

oh the reviewed GPU Performence Summary?

EDIT: Do you mean by this

tt_martin · Jul 31, 2012

gopal said:
Do we have a performance summary graph page?
Can you give me a link to it?

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/HD_7970_SOC/28.html

W1zzard said:
yes, also note the awesome new games we added

thanks

As for new games, I can not see any racing games. Can we expect DiRT Showdown soon?

W1zzard · Jul 31, 2012

i dropped dirt 3 because it kept giving inconsistent results which meant i had to rebench it all the time. wont include dirt showdown due to extreme amd bias. looking forward to f1 2012

gopal · Jul 31, 2012

So did you added Witcher 2

W1zzard · Jul 31, 2012

old game, also can't automate it, so no. i added diablo 3, sniper elite v2 and max payne 3

gopal · Jul 31, 2012

great, but i think we should open another thread or tke it to pms because i don't think this is the place to talk about it.

pantherx12 · Jul 31, 2012

Huzzah! Heatpipes + vapour chamber like I've been saying for ages, now for someone to solder the pipes INTO the chamber it's self.

Shame the rest of the cooler is awful : /

What were gigabyte thinking? They could of at-least gone with 3 fans at either end of the card so it could exhaust the hot air correctly.

natr0n · Jul 31, 2012

I don't think I've ever seen such a generous heatsink come stock like that one.

pantherx12 · Jul 31, 2012

natr0n said:
I don't think I've ever seen such a generous heatsink come stock like that one.

Loads of cards came fitted with Accerelo extremes a year or 2 ago.

They're much beefier :toast:

( and probably perform better with their 3 92mm fans and nearly having as much surface area as this cooler)

Also Colorfire heatsinks are even beefier than that lol

natr0n · Jul 31, 2012

pantherx12 said:
Loads of cards came fitted with Accerelo extremes a year or 2 ago.

They're much beefier ( and probably perform better with their 3 92mm fans and nearly having as much surface area as this cooler)

Also Colorfire heatsinks are even beefier than that lol

yeah true, I was mesmerized by the copper surface area I think lol.

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