The Windforce cooler dominates the top of the GPU with its smoked black plastic fans and surrounding gloss black bracket. There is quite a gap in the fans coverage compared to the heatsink which is a waste however, the heatpipes jutting out from the edge will benefit. We do however feel a larger heatsink would have been even more efficient here. The blue PCB



While the NVIDIA reference PCB design shows the GTX650 Ti to be a small graphics card, the additional length provided by the Windforce cooling design ensures that this graphics card measures some 235mm from tip to toe, 90mm longer than the PCB itself.



The I/O backplate of the card features a twin DVI ports, HDMI and a VGA output which is nice to see and explains why there is no DVI-VGA adapter included with the accessories.



The card looks a little odd from this angle due to the oversized cooler. The striking blue PCB may not be everyone's cup of tea but it is synonymous with GIGABYTE's graphics cards. The two copper heatpipes had signs of oxidisation on our sample which was a shame but they are easily polished up. Perhaps most strange of all though is the power port location...



The card is powered by a single 6pin PCIe power plug which most modern PSU's should have at least one of. The positioning of the power port on the GIGABYTE design is in an odd position, being found in the middle of the card however this is due again to the large heatsink.

Let's delve a little deeper and take a closer look at today's sample...