Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2013-11-28
Gigabyte has made an adaptation of their award-winning Windforce 3X cooling system with the release of the R9 270X card, which features a 50MHz GPU clock increase from the factory for providing playable framerates up to Full HD resolutions while being fairly priced.
Compared with the previous samples, the retail model comes with plastic protection for the PCI-Express connector:
While looking on the card sides we will get to see a portion of the large heatsink, but in order to find out more we will have to disassemble the card. A metallic rib is also preinstalled here in order to prevent bending:
The card is powered by dual 6-pin PCI-E connectors:
On the back side of the PCB we will get to see the mounting screws for both GPU and also the VRM heatsink:
The cooling system expands beyond the length of the PCB:
One CrossFire finger is available, which is also protected with a blue plastic cap:
The same goes with the I/O connectors:
The card is equipped with one DisplayPort port, one HDMI and two DVIs:
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