Product Showcase 

Product Showcase 

Alright, let's have a peek at the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 core WindForce 3 model in specific, quite a mouthful naming wise. Below, you can see the card. The card has 1.28 GB 320-bit GDDR5 memory tied to the GPU. This memory is clocked at an effective data-rate of 3800 MHz, that's the reference clock frequency.

The design is stylish and good looking alright, we like that. Blue PCB, which is roughly 11.5-inches (29cm) in length. This card will eat up two PCI slots. Sitting on top of the GPU is the heatpipe based cooler which on top of that, it has three fans blowing air towards that heatpipe based cooler with multiple thick 8mm pipes.

Power consumption wise we estimate a needed 210 Watt to feed the GPU when peaking, add some overhead for overclocking and the rest of your PC and we feel that a 550 Watt power supply should be your bare minimum. Bare in mind that you need to connect two 6-pin PEG PCIe graphics  power connectors for this board. The power connectors have been seated along the top side.

The PCIe slot can deliver roughly 75 Watt, the two 6-pin connectors are rated 75W each, so that's a good 225 Watt at your disposal for graphics.

As you can see, the card is equipped with four display connectors, two dual-link DVI connectors and a mini-HDMI (1.4) and display port connector. The cooler tries to exhaust hot air through the upper mesh but realistically 90% of your heat will be dumped inside the PC though, so please do make sure you have a properly ventilated chassis.