14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 770 and GTX 780 graphics cards are the fastest single-GPU NVIDIA video boards at the moment, and Galaxy was determined to make them even better, hence its latest announcement.
And by latest announcement, we mean the formal introduction of the GeForce GTX 780 HOF and 770 HOF.
Both of them have white PCBs (printed circuit boards) and factory overclocked graphics processing units (GPUs).
Oddly, however, the GTX 770 HOF is the one with a triple-fan cooler, not the GTX 780 HOF, which has a dual-fan cooler.
This must be part of the reason why the factory overclocking wasn't higher on the latter (GF-GTX780-E3GHD/SOC). Sure, 1,006/1,058 MHz Base/Boost is more than 863/900 MHz, but it could have been higher.
Fortunately for those who like to tweak clocks themselves, the newcomer has an 8+2 phase VRM (printed circuit board), powered by two 8-pin PCI Express power connectors.
Premium tantalum capacitors should help a lot when modifying the frequencies too, as they increase stability.
The cooler itself is a large thing, with an aluminum fin array, three heatpipes and, as we have mentioned before, two fans.
That leaves the GeForce GTX 770 HOF (GF-GTX780-E3GHD/SOC), whose cooler is even more needlessly large. Note that the card is actually a rebranded GTX 680 if we're reading things right with 1202/1254 MHz.
The triple-fan cooler is as white as the rest of the card, and makes more sense given the clock speeds. Reference adapters run at 1046/1085 MHz.
Galaxy's press release (Expreview, WCCFTech, ChinaDIY) doesn't include the prices of the two boards, unfortunately. Presumably, retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, NCIX, Newegg, TigerDirect will post them soon, at which point that mystery will be unraveled. On store.galaxytechus.com, 770 HOF is priced at $449.99 / €449.99, but we didn't find the 780 HOF for some strange reason.
