Dirt Showdown is a video game from Codemasters and is part of the Colin McRae Rally games revolving around a tour of events to compete in allowing you to win money and prizes to spend on new cars and upgrades as well as unlocking new events and races. The game uses high resolution textures and AA settings to simulate dust particles, terrain and damage to the vehicles.
With Dirt Showdown being an AMD optimised game, AMD’s 7970 is able to push out a few more frames at the higher resolutions. Gigabyte’s overclocked 770 see’s a better gain at 1920×1080 over a reference card with an additional 6fps.
The Windforce cooler, although effective, is the ugliest cooling solution ever conceived, It’s a real eyesore IMO. Yuck.
I totally second this. There are many better looking dual-fan coolers from Asus, MSI..
Gigabyte should learn from them.
It’s really a good cooler (although it’s ghastly). If you ever buy a Gigabyte card with that cooler all you have to do is yank it off, get rid of that over applied glop the manufacturer calls thermal grease, replace it with a good quality paste (applied properly of course) and you’ll see the temps plummet even further.
Well, that’s bad.
P.S. I never used Gigabyte cards..
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. They’ve cleaned up the blue PCB and other than that its just a rather standard looking triple fan black VGA cooler
It’s just personal taste. I actually use a Gigabyte GFX card with the Windforce cooler but I can’t see it so it doesn’t bother me but I have no complaints about it’s cooling prowess. Although the colour of the PCB is important to some people, somebody pointed out to me that that it was no longer blue but black, I hadn’t even noticed. Working with these things all day long for a number of years, one tends to become jaded & cynical. I think it’s time for a break.
Except for the ugly outlook, it is good if not great in terms of performance.
GTX770 is itself a very good chip though.
Having a window in your PC is so 2001, who cares what it looks like? You only see the top of the PCB anyway, all that matters is how good it cools.
I actually liked Gigabyte’s cooler design and PCB color enough to buy two of them…670 style…but to each their own I guess.
Can’t let these vain naysayers convince people not to get the card just from its looks.