Review on GIGABYTE GeForce Graphics WINDFORCE GV N308TEAGLE 12GD by Micha Dobrzyski ᠌

The general impression of the purchase is twofold, it seems that there is a card, and taking into account the sale of the previous one at a price almost more than it was bought 3 years ago (ebay has a terrible hype for old models and sold it 10 minutes after the announcement), so taking into account the sale, the price is not the same it came out big. But on the other hand, there is still no stable 60 fps. Everything written is solely my opinion of a simple layman, but I hope the review will be useful to someone! Added after 2 weeks. In the first week, when testing at maximum settings at 4k, in heavy projects, I noticed the appearance of small friezes and a drop in fps after a rather short load time. Remembering my last Giga, I thought about overheating, the problem then was in the current pads. The core did not warm up more than 75g, and even earlier I found the optimal settings on the Internet with a downvolting of 0.875v at 1920mg for the core. Memory through GPU-Z showed 90-92gr, having driven Furmark after the first minute, the memory was under 97gr and creeping up. I ordered 2 mm spacers for memory (Odyssey) and 1 mm (Arctic) for everything else, from the old card there were extra 1.5 mm (Arctic) that went in two layers under the backplate. I also ordered Noctua H1 thermal paste. When parsing the card (there is nothing complicated, by the way, there are no seals on the new one either), the gaskets snot along the contour, and by themselves, like a cheap marshmallow, and this is on the new card. In addition, I found some two round plastic spacers on the radiator fins, which simply lay between the fins and could one day fly into the fans. As a result, having replaced and assembled everything, I received no more than 72g per core at 1920mg and 78g from memory 9500mg, this is all after 3 minutes of Furmark, in games the load is much less, everything works stably without friezes and overheating. Thus, if you are planning a card for 4k and are not going to change the entire factory thermal interface, I strongly recommend that you think about how long it will live at such memory temperatures.