The ZOTAC design we reviewed earlier had a basic, yet effective cooling design which is in contrast to GIGABYTE's extravagant Windforce heatsink. This heatsink dwarfs the card so much so that it actually adds 33% to the cards length. It certainly looks the business though with twin heatpipes matched up to an aluminium finned array which in turn is cooled by twin fans.



With the main heatsink removed via 4 spring loaded screws, we can see that the GIGABYTE design is near identifiable to the reference design save for the blue PCB. More telling here is how small the actual PCB is compared to the length of the cooler.



Each of the three R60 chokes are matched with 2 MOSFETs making a 2+1 phase power design for the voltage regulation module.



The memory modules hail from Hynix with a product line of H5GQ2H24AFR ROC. This memory is rated to 1500MHz at 1.6vdd yet GIGABYTE have elected to keep the memory to its reference speed of 1350MHz (5400MHz effective).



Finally we see the core of the GIGBAYTE GTX650Ti which is overclocked from a reference 925MHz to 1033MHz The GK106. Built on the same 28nm manufacturing process as the rest of the Kepler family. It also happens to have a massive 2.54billion transistor count so without further discussion, I think it's time we put the card through it's paces...