Gigabyte 7970 OC Windforce 3 Full Coverage Block

T

TechIsCool

Limp Gawd
Joined
Aug 2, 2009
Messages
167
Hey everyone got this for a great price now would like to put it under water. I have been looking though blocks and it seems like the EK blocks support it visually but I would actually like to buy a heatkiller. I don't believe this card is reference can anyone confirm?

Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB GDDR5 (GV-R797OC-3GD)

If it is not reference what block should I buy that will work?
 
TechIsCool said:
Hey everyone got this for a great price now would like to put it under water. I have been looking though blocks and it seems like the EK blocks support it visually but I would actually like to buy a heatkiller. I don't believe this card is reference can anyone confirm?

Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB GDDR5 (GV-R797OC-3GD)

If it is not reference what block should I buy that will work?
Click to expand...

Let me add that I will buy (at a normal price) one of the ASUS P79 models, and I have the same question.
 
You'll have to pull the cooler off the PCB and compare.

This is the image I found for a reference 7970:

7970referance.jpg


And this is the image I found for a Windforce 7970:

10_giga797_pcb_big.jpg


The PCBs look extremely similar.
 
Thank you for the links now I just have to confirm that my board is the revision 1 if that is true it looks reference to me. anyone else wanting to help me out I made a hover over for viewing the two images for comparing them.
It looks like the only difference is the metal heatsink.
Link http://fiddle.jshell.net/5uGMk/1/show/light/
 
That little metal heatsink looks like it's just screwed on. I've got one nearly identical to it in a box that came off my 6950.
 
baldrik said:
That little metal heatsink looks like it's just screwed on. I've got one nearly identical to it in a box that came off my 6950.
Click to expand...

That's what I figured so that card in the picture I would say is reference unless proven otherwise. Don't have time today to tear down the card and check but will be ordering the block soon.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top