The video board uses the signature cooler with three fans and a grid covering them

Jun 21, 2013 08:37 GMT  ·  By

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Gainward added the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 graphics card to its Phanom lineup. It wouldn't do to leave this high-end card aside after all.

Gainward's Phantom graphics card line is defined by the stealthy-looking cooler, with three fans, an aluminum fin-stack, and a grid, rather than a shroud, covering the fans.

The cooler pulls heat out of the GPU through five 8 mm-thick heatpipes, a ridged metal heatsink from the VRM (in this case 8-phase VRM), and a baseplate from the memory chips.

The aluminum fin-stack is fairly thick, arranged along the height of the card. The fans are kept in place by thumb-screws.

Above you'll see the intro video of the Gainward GeForce GTX 780 Phantom.

Solid-chokes and DrMOS contribute to the stability of the adapter.