Underneath a trio of oversized fans sits an array of aluminum heatsink fins, linked to a copper baseplate via multiple copper heat-pipes. This card’s GPU is overclocked, but the real attraction with Gigabyte’s GeForce GTX 770 (model GV-N770OC-2GD) in our opinion is the card’s Windforce 3X “Triangle-Cool” cooler with 450W cooling capacity. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 with Windforce 3X Cooler
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Also available for the card is a copy of MSI’s Afterburner performance tuning and monitoring tool, which is available for download right from MSI’s website and allows for over-voltage adjustments and easy overclocking.
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The MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning's GPU Reactor and Accessory Bundleīundled with the GeForce GTX 770 Lightning are a quick installation guide and user’s manual, dual 6-pin to 8-pin power adapters, a DVI to VGA adapter, an SLI bridge, leads for the card’s voltage check points and of course a driver / utility disc. Supplemental power is handled by dual 8-pin PCIe connectors and the outputs on the card consist of a pair of DVI outputs and single DP and HDMI outputs. And we should also mention that the MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning includes voltage check points and MSI’s GPU Reactor accessory on the back of the card, which is essentially an additional array of filters to further smooth power delivery to the GPU. The “Unlocked” reference on the cards box refers to an on-board switch that removes all power protection from the BIOS to facilitate extreme overclocking.
The MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning also has a custom, all digital 12-phase PWM that can handle mode current than reference designs and it’s outfitted with MSI’s “Military Class” components, which is to say it has solid caps and super ferrite chokes installed. The memory runs at the same speed as reference models, however, at 1752 MHz (7010 MHz effective). MSI has also overclocked the card, with 1150 MHz (base) and 1202 MHz (boost) clocks for the GPU. The customizations on the MSI GeForce GTX 770 Power Edition don’t stop at the cooler.
When the time is up, the fans will then spin in their normal direction, blowing air down onto the heatsinks. The GeForce GTX 770 Lightning Edition’s fans will actually spin in the opposite direction (pulling air through up the heatsinks) for a few seconds upon boot to expel any dust that may have built up within the heatsink assembly. In a move unique to MSI (at least as far as we have seen), the cooler features dust removal technology as well. The Twin Frozr cooler has also been outfitted with custom “propeller blade” fans that reportedly push 20% more air than previous designs. We should also point out that the cooler’s base is made of pure copper and the entire assembly is nickel-plated. The dual-slot Twin Frozr cooler sports high-density heatsinks, with dual cooling fans, and thick copper heatpipes that run from the cooler’s base up through the heatsink fins. Although factory overclocked and fully custom, the oversized Twin Frozr cooler is the obvious star of the show here.
The products you see pictured below are the MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning and the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 with Windforce 3X “Triangle Cool” cooling.įirst up, we present to you the MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning Edition with “Unlocked Digital Power”. For the purposes of this article, in addition to a couple of reference boards, we got our hands on couple of retail-ready, factory overclocked GeForce GTX 770 cards as well.