impressive the cooling solution
is from the 600Watt cooler.
During gaming in a closed
case with mediocre air flow, the
G1.Gaming never reached the
critical temperature of 80’C.
Which meant that as far as
boost clocks were concerned
it was always operating at or
near 1394MHz. Even when
overclocking, whatever stable
clock speed I set, the graphics
card pretty much remained
there. This is very important
because one may test a
graphics card outside a case
and find temperatures hardly
reaching the 70’C mark. Thus
the overclock that one believes
to be stable is actually not
and this would only be evident
when the card is installed into
a closed system. This was not
the case with the G1.Gaming
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and despite dumping hot air into
the chassis, it did not adversely
affect temperatures of any other
component, at least not to the
extent to which it would cause
crashes or instability.
Of course if you’re are
planning on operating two of
these cards in tandem you’ll
have to remove the back plate
depending on the spacing
between the graphics card. For
the most part however, there is
absolutely nothing to complain
about when it comes to the
cooler. Aesthetically, I
do feel the other vendors may
have one up on GIGABYTE. We
will have to see if this changes
in future (PASCAL, NANO etc.)
as new graphics cards are
released.
Looking at the results, you
can pretty much see that
the G1.Gaming dominates
everything, showing incredible
performance even at the
toughest of resolutions. When
compared to the GTX 980
directly, it may seem as
if it’s underwhelming, but
that is until you turn up the
graphics settings or switch to
UHD resolutions. Where the
GTX 980 was barely capable of
playing most modern triple-A
titles at these settings, the
G1.Gaming handled these with
finesse. Not represente B