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.
Next we will go ahead with the removal of the four spring-loaded screws around the GPU:
Gigabyte has covered the VRM on the left side with a separate aluminum heatsink, which is secured with two small screws:
The six phases on the left are in charge of the GPU:
Nearby we will get to see the International Rectifier IR3567A 6+2 phase PWM controller:
The memory chips are from ELPIDA, with the W2032BBBG-6A-F code name; these are rated for 1500MHz:
Two additional power phases can be found on the right, in charge of the memory:
In the middle we have the graphics processor featuring GCN shader architecture on 28nm, built at TSMC:
As we have mentioned at the beginning of the article, the WF 3x cooling system has been redesigned, this time we are dealing with only two 8mm copper heatpipes which travel from one side to another:
The copper plate does not have irregularities but Gigabyte has decided not to lap it in order to getting a mirror-finish:
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