Review on Gigabyte GeForce Graphics GV N107TGAMING 8GD Renewed by Mateusz Kazana ᠌

Name: Gigabyte GeForce Graphics GV N107TGAMING 8GD Renewed
Item: Gigabyte GeForce Graphics GV N107TGAMING 8GD Renewed
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

The quality exceeds all expectations, I recommend to buy.

Of the interesting goodies - the card has a luminous logo of the manufacturer and an indicator of turning off the fans on the end of the card. The color of the glow of both is configured by the native utility.

The power consumption of the card is very low due to more advanced manufacturing technology. I switched to it from the Radeon HD 6970, so even at maximum load it consumes even a few watts less than it, although it is several times more powerful at the same time. Accordingly, the power supply did not need to be changed.

And one more thing - do not listen to advisers who say that under the GTX 1070 you need modern powerful processors a la Core i7, etc. plus a car of RAM. That's . I have an old AMD FX-8320 Black Edition (with an unlocked multiplier), overclocked by a multiplier from the stock 3.5 GHz to 4.2 GHz and 8 GB of RAM. So, even this dead processor is more than enough to load the card completely, up to 95-100% load. There is no bottleneck effect due to the processor. You can check and verify yourself using GPU-Z, the card is equipped with a m of sensors showing the workload of individual components: GPU, memory controller, video encoding engine, bus interface, and even power consumption.

Pros

Very quiet, very cold. So far, I have not been able to heat it above 65 degrees, even at 95% GPU load. Accordingly, the cooling fans do not accelerate much and do not create noise. At a temperature of 65 degrees at 24 degrees in the room they work at about 1600 rpm and their noise is completely lost against the background of normal household noise. In standby mode, when no games are running, the fans stop altogether, as the card reduces frequencies to a minimum and does not heat up above 45 degrees. Accordingly, of all the non-references, this one, in my opinion, has the best cooling system. Very, very powerful. I took it with a perspective on VR, but so far I haven’t got a helmet, I just play at maximum settings in Full HD. The card runs Elite Dangerous in the Ultra preset with 2x supersampling and FXAA at a stable 60 fps. On these settings, I was only able to load it up to 95%, it is clearly designed for resolutions much higher than Full HD. In other games, in particular in Dying Light, also at the highest possible settings, the card consistently pulls over a hundred fps with a total GPU load of no more than 60% and does not even heat up very much. Initially, I thought to take 1080, but according to tests, it bypes 1070 by only 10-15% even at 2K resolutions, and taking into account more than twice the price, it makes no sense to buy 1080 completely. A separate bonus is the video encoder on board, which allows you to write to a file or stream video games directly, byping the CPU. This allows you to write videos from the game at resolutions up to 2K without loss of performance or use the card for a Steam home broadcast.

Cons

When you buy this card, immediately consider that its cooling system does not throw heated air out of the case, as in the blower references. Accordingly, your case must be spacious and with exhaust fans, otherwise the card will create a large heat pocket in the processor area and will endlessly drive the same heated air in circles, overheating itself and the processor. For me, however, this problem is not worth it, since I operate the system unit with the side cover always open. Given the extremely quiet cooling system of the card, this does not create problems. The package bundle is also extremely poor - only a disk with drivers and a brochure about installing the card, that's all. However, it is quite clear why this is so - the cooling system on the card is more complex than that of the reference, more expensive, so the manufacturer saved on the card package so that it could compete in price with inexpensive references from other vendors.