Overclock Series for the GeForce GTX 960 from Gigabyte Xtreme

Waiting for the debut of video cards based on AMD and NVIDIA's next generation GPU, belonging respectively to the families Polaris and Pascal, there are announcements of new solutions from manufacturers engaged in this industry.

And 'the case of Gigabyte, who announced the GeForce GTX 960 Xtreme features a custom design and a budget of onboard video memory of 4 Gbytes. The video chip clock frequency has been increased to a considerable extent compared to NVIDIA specifications: 1,304 MHz and 1,367 MHz, respectively, for the default clock and boost clock, against 1,127 MHz and 1,178 MHz data specifications of NVIDIA.

Nothing changes with reference to the video memory, in a quantity of 4 Gbytes with actual frequency of 7,010 MHz as well as for the reference design. The PCB custom is surmounted by a massive cooling system of windforce 2X family, with two fans from 90 millimeters in diameter which rotate in the opposite direction with an orientation of the blades that is opposed.

The feeding of the sheet is ensured by a 6-pin connector flanked by a 8-pin: this feature, in combination with the power circuitry custom, ensures stable operation with overclock clock frequencies and leaves more space for the intervention in overclocking ' user. At present Gigabyte has not yet announced the price and availability for our market.