Gigabyte GTX 780 GHz Edition 3GB Graphics Card Review

A Closer Look

Like the GTX 780 WindForce OC the GHz Edition from Gigabyte uses the same excellent WindForce 3X cooling solution. This entails three 80mm fans ventilation a rather large aluminium heatsink with five 6mm heatpipes feeding out from the GPU die.

The back has a lovely looking backplate with some “GHz Edition” branding on it. There’s also a touch of Gigabyte branding and we can also see they’ve been kind enough to lavish on a black PCB which is great as it matches everything else on the card.

At the end of the graphics card you can see those five 6mm heatpipes poking through.

In total the Gigabyte GTX 780 GHz Edition is about 29cm long, which is 11.4 inches. The card is a dual slot spacing as well, though it does overhang by a few millimetres on either side.

Given the hefty overclock a pair of 8 pin PCIe connectors are need to deliver this beast the power it needs.

Two SLI fingers are present for up to 3 Way SLI, or 4 way SLI if you do some “ghetto” driver modding but officially it’s only up to 3 Way SLI.

The bottom is an open-vented design to allow for the fans to expel air out into the chassis.

The rear I/O offers dual DVI, DisplayPort and HDMI. You can support a maximum of 4 displays, as either four separate displays, or three unified (aka on Nvidia Surround) with one accessory display.