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Gigabyte GTX660Ti Windforce Review

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Published: 16th August 2012 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £270 | Author: Tom Logan

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Gigabyte have really got a handle on their packaging lately. Whilst their motherboard boxes are in need of a refresh, the GPU ones are classy, clear and really grab your attention. It's wonderful to not be looking at some 80s style fantasy figure.

The Windforce cooler has been on a few cards now and every one that we see it on it just gets worse and worse. We understand that to a certain degree the performance outweighs the aesthetic, but this doesn't remotely fit the PCB and looks more like a Heath Robinson solution than something from one of the major players in the hardware world.

You don't even get a hefty chunk of nickel-plated goodness. We know that a low power card naturally needs less cooling performance, but the Windforce GTX660Ti will never win any beauty contests, custom blue PCB or not.

The business end has the usual selection of outputs, two DVI, an HDMI and a DisplayPort. Power is provided by two 6-pin PCIe connectors which should be more than enough to keep things running smoothly even under heavy loading.

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16-08-2012, 09:02:43

tinytomlogan

http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/artic...130842439l.jpg

The latest batch of midrange nVidia cards is upon us, and we start with the Gigabyte Windforce.

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16-08-2012, 09:05:29

Fractal

Ooh I Liked the 560Ti, lets hope this does good too.
Edit: Shame about the price, was looking at getting a 660Ti fir my brother as an upgrade =/.

16-08-2012, 09:28:09

yassarikhan786

I don't mind the blue PCB at all, but that cooler looks utterly horrendous on that PCB.

Performance wise, it looks to be competing with the 7950. The Unigine result was surprising though.

The price is a big let down as well. It's so close to a 670, is there even a point to a 660 ti and for that matter a 680. What are Nvidia doing?

16-08-2012, 09:42:28

AverageNinja

I'm still going for the GTX 670 I think. In some games (that I will play a lot) the GTX 670 still performs 10fps better than the 660ti.

16-08-2012, 10:01:37

dipzy

I do not like the cooler at all. If its expected to come at £270, a 670 is worth going for. The 660ti should more closer to the £200 mark than the £300

16-08-2012, 10:05:09

AverageNinja

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Originally Posted by dipzy I do not like the cooler at all. If its expected to come at £270, a 670 is worth going for. The 660ti should more closer to the £200 mark than the £300

I'm with you in this argument. I think the 660Ti isn't worth it over the 650Ti when it's released, but can't really compete a lot with the GTX 670. At skyrim the GTX 670 even beats the 660Ti with 30fps.

16-08-2012, 10:07:39

kullzer

i payed 330€ for my oc sapphire with 950 on clock and black pcb,
im glad i dident waited

16-08-2012, 11:04:30

wotevajjjj

pointless card it seems... cost the same as a 7950 here.. so the 7870 competitor will be the 550ti ?
Edit: just checked, the 7950 is €10 cheaper..also the newer ones have even higher speeds for people who don't clock themselves. And it's ugly xd and that comes from a gigabyte fan..

16-08-2012, 11:13:59

garih

hmm, makes me question my purchase of sapphire 7870oc for £215 2 weeks ago.

16-08-2012, 11:45:02

seumasbeathan

So it is going to be £20-£30 more than a 7950? Seems a bit pointless to me tbh

16-08-2012, 11:51:39

garih

Isn't it only £280ish, that is same money as the 7950 on amazon depending on the card.

16-08-2012, 12:15:27

Gurt11

I can say that in Belgium (and the Netherlands is the same comparison but like €10/€20 less for everything) the pricing is roughly this:

- AMD 7870 : €319
- GTX 660Ti : €349
- AMD 7950 : €369
- GTX 670 : €429
- AMD 7970 : €439

So not more than a 7950. Prices of the 660Ti's are expected to drop towards €300 when more shops have them available. I think this 660Ti card is thé way to go if you have one full HD screen and want best bang for the buck. It'll run everything just fine. Most of the times max settings, only sometimes having to take it down just a notch. Great job from Nvidia if you ask me *looks at his 5770 crossfire... Sigh.*

16-08-2012, 13:28:43

parshnip

Here in Canada the 660ti is 300 bucks. Compared to the 670 which is $400 and the 680 which is $500. The 7970 here is also $400 and the 7950 is $300. So at $300 which card do you guys think is best (single screen 1080p gaming)?At $400?

16-08-2012, 13:32:11

seumasbeathan

I say 7950

16-08-2012, 13:53:10

AverageNinja

Is the GTX 670 $400?
Then get the GTX 670!

16-08-2012, 16:03:47

NRG!

This card is indescribably hideous.

16-08-2012, 16:08:55

FOX91

When I first saw the performance numbers of the 660Ti, I was beginning to regret buying a 560Ti this spring but when I saw the price it comes at in Estonia - € 333 (while my 560Ti was € 210), I felt a bit better about my choice.

16-08-2012, 18:02:39

nepas

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Originally Posted by NRG! This card is indescribably hideous.

No,I think you did a good job imo.

16-08-2012, 20:05:12

PapaSmurf6768

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Originally Posted by NRG! This card is indescribably hideous.

+ 1 million.

17-08-2012, 01:04:27

airdeano

wtf? was there an ugly design contest? all these well-known manies kickin' out some gawd
aweful looking
cooling designs.. the simple EVGA reference is so much more eye-pleasing. and i am not a reference kinda-guy.
it'll make the water-cooling GPU blocks sell a heck of a lot faster.
there are something that just make you say buhhhh..

airdeano

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