It can enter a “Master Mode” that pushes things even farther than the factory overclock

Nov 22, 2013 14:49 GMT  ·  By

Palit wasn't about to leave the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti in its base state, especially if it was going to install a triple-fan cooler on it, so it made the Palit GeForce GTX 780 Ti JetStream.

The board runs the GK110 graphics processing unit at 980 MHz instead of 876 MHz, and can go beyond even that when the ThunderMaster overclocking utility is used to enter a “Master Mode.”

The extra heat is handled by the new copper base of the heatsink, five copper heatpipes, the DrMOS and an 8-phase PWM design, and the three fans (one 90 mm and two 80 mm ones).

The performance should be of up to 10% better than the normal GTX 780 Ti, even as the noise is 7 dB below the norm and the temperature 10 degrees lower (Celsius). Not bad when the original is essentially the biggest graphics card monster around.