GIGABYTE GTX 960 G1 Gaming Review

👤by Richard Weatherstone Comments 📅22-01-15
First Look


The card is very long as far as mid-range graphics cards go. With the Windforce 3x cooler attached the card overhangs a standard motherboard by a good inch and measures 297mm from the backplate. It does however look great with the matt black metallic cooler and matching smoked translucent fans.


GIGABYTE have also added a backplate which has some cooling louvres cut out from the plate.


The devil is in the detail they say and GIGABYTE have left no stone unturned here with a very neat embossed emblem on the back of the base plate.


LED affectionados will be thrilled to hear the profile view of the GIGABYTE G1 Gaming cooler features not one, two but three separate illuminated emblems. the main GIGABYTE logo is illuminated when powered but astride this are Silent and STOP lettering which inform the user when the fans are moving or not (illuminated). A nice little feature that while useless in the grand scheme of things, will look pretty neat in a windowed case. Especially as you won't be able to tell from noise alone if the fans are working or not.


A great feature of the GIGABYTE GTX 960 is FLEX. It allows multiple screen to be attached using a variety of inputs. This card comes with DVI-I, DVI-D, 3x Displayports and a HDMI giving the users a variety of options for multi-monitor gaming setups.


IF one card is not enough then you can add a further card from the same family (GTX 960) to benefit from SLI.


Power requirements of the card are a 400W PSU. For this card you will need either 4 spare MOLEX connectors or 2x 6pin PCIe power cables.

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