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Doombie's Gigabye GeForce GTX 770 4Gb Windforce Review/love affair
 

Hi guys its x5_Doombie here from Breaking bronze. Recently I had the pleasure of upgrading my PC and getting a new 3d card. The card I chose was the GeForce GTX 770 4GB Windforce from our awesome sponsors over at NVidia.



I wanted a card to take my pc to the next level, I didn’t want to have to worry about my pc crashing while I’m streaming online, or getting a bad frame rate while recording footage. I want to be able to run the games I play on ultra-settings smoothly so I can enjoy every detail the developers put into the game. This card delivers, in every department and then some.



Gaming for me is more than just a pastime, I stream my own play across the internet around ten hours a day, six days a week. Reliability is something that is a necessity. This card has cooling technology unique to this card, brand new “triangle cool” technology. I don’t know how it works, but it is incredibly effective at keeping my card at a constant cool temp for throughout the crazy workload I put on it. Also, importantly for me is the fact that it is silent. My old card was so loud that people could hear it through my mic at times, this card however is always whisper quiet.





Another feature I love about this card is that it has 4 monitor output. I run three monitors from my pc so that while in game I can get all the other relevant information I need. With basic cards you can usually run dual monitors but any more than that you need to run 2 cards. This card can do up to 4 monitors straight out of the box, this is amazing. I actually use dual monitors and have my third as a 47 inch LCD TV connected via HDMI so that I can watch StarCraft live from my pc. I set this up simply through NVIDIA’s Experience software.



The software, titled “GeForce Experience” is actually pretty amazing. It manages your drivers and takes care of all the basics as you would expect. But something else it does is optimizes your in game settings straight from the user interface, which is amazing. It reads and understands your system, so that it can automatically adjust the games to get the best performance. No more, I wonder if I can handle anti-aliasing on this game, what res can I handle, can I do ultra-textures? The software checks and sets EVERYTHING for you.



This card does everything I could of hoped for plus a few cool extra things I wasn’t expecting. It makes playing and streaming reliable and beautiful. I can run Starcraft 2 on ultra-settings with the frame rate Maxing out, this feels amazing and I know that I’m getting the absolute maximum out of the game. Also, when I’m on tilt and need a break from StarCraft 2 I can flex this card on other games that are really graphics heavy. This card does it all and doesn’t disappoint.



Now we can get into some of the technical aspects of the card. Including some details on how the card performs while under pressure.

BENCHMARKING

This benchmarking was done with the GeForce GTX770 4GB Windforce. We compared my results with two other current cards on the market using data found online. We tried the card on 3 games I own.







These benchmarks were done with on my computer using
CPU – Intel(r) core™ i7-2600 CPU @3.40GHZ and 16 GB of ram.



Card Specs
Chipset GeForce GTX 770
Memory Clock 7010 MHz
Process Technology 28nm
Memory Size 4096 MB
Memory Bus 256 bit
Core Clock Base/ Boost clock:1137 / 1189
Card Bus PCI-E 3.0
Memory Type GDDR5
Direct X 11.1
OpenGL 4.3
PCB Form ATX
Digital max resolution 4096 x 2160
Analog max resolution 2048 x 1536
Multi view 4
I/O DVI-I x1DVI-D x1Display Port x1HDMI x1 600W
Power requirement 600W (with two 8 pin external power connectors )