Gigabyte Equips its Radeon HD7800 Series lineup with WindForce Cooling

Mar 5, 2012 at 11:19am EST

GIgabyte has launched its new HD7800 Series Graphic cards which feature the WindForce cooling design along with factory overclocked frequencies. The cards include GV-R787OC-2GD (Radeon HD7870 OC) and  GV-R785OC-2GD (Radeon HD7850 OC).

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The GV-R787OC-2GD Features the WindForce 3x Cooling featuring a total of three cooling fans with a 5-10% increased factory clock speeds which means around 1000Mhz+ Core clock. The Gigabyte Radeon HD7870 also makes use of Ultra Durable VGA+ PCB. The card would be priced at $349 during launch on 19th March.

The GV-R785OC-2GD is equipped with the WindForce 2x featuring a dual fan design, This card is also said to be overclocked upto 5%. Both cards feature a 2GB GDDR5 Memory running across a 256-bit wide memory interface. Gigabyte HD7850 would be priced at $249 on launch.

About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.

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