Gigabyte GTX 760 OC Video Card Review
Author: Darren McCain
Published: Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Gigabyte GTX 760 OC Uncovered
There are four screws holding the Windforce cooler in place making it rather easy to remove. With the cooler removed you can clearly see the tiny GTX 760 GPU surrounded by memory chips in the typical ring configuration.
The Windforce cooling solution is quite impressive and features three extremely large heatipipes in a core contact configuration. Core contact designs react quickly to rapid changes in load but tend to have a limit in terms of overall capacity. Good thing the Kepler architecture has a lower TDP!
There is a connected heatspreader to cool the memory using the typical thermal pad solution. PWM cooling is not part of the primary Windforce cooler but instead can be found mounted directly to the PCB. This is actually a good thing for a variety of reasons. For instance when dealing with heatpipe coolers it is important to have a single heat contact as it will tend to cool better. Had the PWM been included in the design the overall cooler wouldn't be as efficient.
There is a connected heatspreader to cool the memory using the typical thermal pad solution. PWM cooling is not part of the primary Windforce cooler but instead can be found mounted directly to the PCB. This is actually a good thing for a variety of reasons. For instance when dealing with heatpipe coolers it is important to have a single heat contact as it will tend to cool better. Had the PWM been included in the design the overall cooler wouldn't be as efficient.
One of the factors that limits how much a GPU can be overclocked is the size of the VRM. Gigabyte has included a 5-phase VRM to support the factory overclock.
Since this is an overclocked card Gigabyte has increased the power drive to include a 8pin + 6pin power configuration. This should really help stabilize higher overclocks and help differentiate the Gigabyte GV-N760OC-2GD from others in this class.
Since this is an overclocked card Gigabyte has increased the power drive to include a 8pin + 6pin power configuration. This should really help stabilize higher overclocks and help differentiate the Gigabyte GV-N760OC-2GD from others in this class.
