It is a device with the ability to solder on reference GTC Titan cards

Apr 22, 2013 09:09 GMT  ·  By

Normally, NVIDIA's and AMD's partners launch custom-designed versions of their graphics adapters, but every once in a while, something different will happen, like when Gigabyte revealed the G-Power VRM for GTX Titan.

The GTX Titan is really making the news, either through its own feats or because of supposed successors that may or may not debut.

Gigabyte, being one of NVIDIA's primary partners, obviously made sure to have a Titan out for sale. It even made the Gigabyte WindForce 450W cooling module just for it.

That was over a week ago, more than enough time for something else to make its way out of Gigabyte's labs, only that it isn't a video card or cooler.

Instead, the company presented a supplementary voltage regulation module, or VRM for short. It is called G-Power.

Gigabyte was forced to settle for this because NVIDIA isn't letting its partners make custom PCB designs for the video board itself.

And since Gigabyte wanted to provide its customers with better ways of overclocking the beast, it made the accessory instead. The VRM is where most of the direct clock tweaking happens after all.

Physically, the device has a PCB of its own, mostly occupied by high-capacity power leads on one end, which need to be soldered on the reference GeForce GTX TITAN PCB.

The rest of the item holds 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors, and, of course, the 6+1 phase VRM itself.

The components are not unlike those employed in GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 5 motherboards: an International Rectifier IR3563A controller, International Rectifier PowIRstage IR3550 driver-MOSFETs, and 60A ferrite core chokes.

No word yet on how Gigabyte intends to sell the G-Power module. We also don't know whether it will work with the GTX Titan LE or the presumed GeForce Titan Ultra, but we imagine that Gigabyte will make some modifications if it comes to it.

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