Gigabyte GeForce 750Ti Ultra Durable BLACK EDITION Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2014-08-12

Guaranteed for stability during a 168-hour period of stress testing, the Gigabyte GeForce 750Ti Black Edition is factory overclocked and features a custom dual-fan efficient cooling system. The card performances can be further enhanced while using the supplied OC Guru II and can be used for gaming up to Full HD while using medium to high detail levels.

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Packaging, A Closer Look

The card we are going to have looked up in this article takes part from Gigabytes’ Black Edition series which means that the product is guaranteed to be super stable since the company has tested it extensively during a period of 168 hours before shipping. An additional certification document with signatures is included inside the box in order to prove this aspect so if you are looking for a pre-tested, error-free product, you should also have Black Edition cards in view. The GTX 750Ti GPU from Nvidia takes part of the mainstream segment and is equipped with 640 CUDA cores, 40 Texture units and 16 ROPs. The GM107 Maxwell GPU communicates with the 2GB GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus while the rated transistor count is 1.87B. When talking about frequencies, we could remind that the OEM model is running at 1020MHz with a Boost Clock of 1085MHz and the memory is clocked at 1350MHz; Gigabyte has pre-overclocked the card to 1163MHz with a Boost Clock of 1242MHz, while the memory clocks haven’t been touched.

 

The packaging retains Nvidia colors and on the front Gigabyte reminds us that we are dealing with a Black Edition model, 4K video output possibility and Windforce cooling system are also represented as small pictograms, while the total memory quantity can be seen in the lower right corner:

 

 

On the back side of the box, Gigabyte explains us the cooling system in more detail and we can also learn more of the Ultra Durable 2 technology which was implemented:

 

 

While the card is fully enclosed inside a white foam mold, on the top we will find the documentation:

 

 

The certification we were talking about is also enclosed, along with the disk which contains the necessary drivers and a Quick Installation Guide:

 

 

For power supplies which do not have enough connectors available, Gigabyte is supplying a MOLEX to PCI-E 6-pin adapter:

 

 

The Black Edition card comes with a Windforce 2x cooling solution, which incorporates two 80mm fans and a metallic shroud as on the high-end boards; these fans are meant to cool the large heatsink with an integrated heatpipe:

 

 

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Comment from Casecutter @ 2014/08/14
Good to see this and the Asus 270 head to head, but with Nvidia/Gigabyte 750ti pricing at 134 euros or the Asus 270 at 141 euros... just 6% more the "value" is all with the Asus 270! You receive a Full-HD mainstream card; when at 1920x1080 only a couple of super demanding titles are out of it's range with max settings, and provides very similar experience to cards that ask you to ante-up more approaching 190 euros!

 

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