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Product Showcase: GeForce GTX 970

Let's start with our photo-shoot. Two pages worth of photos then and all of them from our own photo-shoot.

So as you can see, the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Mini-ITX version (bear in mind that this is an OC edition), which comes with a faster standard clock frequency. Gigabyte overhauled their board from the reference design. You will spot a custom PCB with four GPU phases and one 8-pin power header for a little more overclocking headroom. The PCB is matte black in color and of course a small WindForce based cooler is being used. 

The card is like 17 cm, so tiny. This is the OC edition of the Mini-ITX series, meaning it has higher factory clocks. The GPU core base clock is ticking over at 1076 MHz, while there is boost allowance up-to 1216 MHz. The memory (Hynix) has been kept reference at 7.0 GHz (effective data-rate) on its 256-bit wide memory bus of 4GB GDDR5 memory, well 3.5 GB, let's just stick to that.

The card is based on a nice thin dual-slot solution, it is heat-pipe based. The air flow is split through a fan edge and is guided through the fan with the special curve design. Gigabyte has applied their ultra durable component selection.

The card will have a maximum power design of roughly 160 Watts, but due to the slightly higher clocks and the extra voltage needed that goes along with that, please allow for 15, maybe 20 extra Watts. In combo with component selection this should still be plenty for a nice tweak, even on such a small form factor. 
 

The card will get no less than six display connectors, you'll spot three full size Display Port connectors, one full size HDMI 2.0 connector and two DVI connectors (dual-link). HDMI is 2.0 compatible meaning that compatible monitors and tellys can do UHD at 60 Hz, DP is 1.2 but has support for eDP 1.4. Your maximum resolution can be 5120 x 3200 pixels at 60 Hz. You can combine these connectors to set up a surround view (multi-monitor) setup.