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welcome back to harbor unbox today we are checking out the gigawatt GTX 1662 a gaming OC so what that means is we will be pulling the card apart to check out the cooler and see what makes it tick have a close look at the PCB and all that sort of stuff however before I did pull the card apart I recorded things like thermal performance and overclocking so tearing down the card hasn't had an impact on those results but before we take a close look at the card let's get the dirty business of money out of the way so the MSRP for the 1662 is $200 u.s. and right now gigabyte does have a dual fan a windforce OSI model selling for the suggested price the triple fan gaming OSI model that were obviously looking at today that comes in at a slight price premium it's $30 u.s. and honestly that's really not that bad in fact compared to the competition I'd say it's rather good firstly it's the cheapest trilithon gtx 1660 TI available at the time of making this video it's $10 cheaper than the MSI gaming X model that we used for our day one coverage at thirty five dollars less than the Isuzu triple fan strict version gigabyte also offers an origin for three hundred and ten dollars and it would be interesting to see how much better that version is for the $10 markup right now though the gigabyte GTX 1660 TI gaming OC looks to be the best value option by some margin so I really keen to see what it can do externally it looks very similar to the RT X 2060 version in fact in terms of dimensions they are identical though under the skin they are also quite different the most obvious giveaway to this is the weight whereas the RT X 2060 model tip the scales at 810 grams the newer but cheaper GTX 1660 Ti version weighs in at just six hundred and seventy grams making it 20% lighter the bulk of this extra weight can be found when looking at the coolers the cooler on the GTX 1660 Ti has three heat pipes opposed to four of the RT x 2060 version and the RT X 2060 cooler also has a bigger GPU baseplate additionally some of the weight cutting can also be attributed to these Moeller PCB which doesn't stretch the entire length of the cooler instead while the card measures 280 millimeters from end to end the PCB measures just 225 millimeters and this is likely the same PCB used by the dual fan models in fact I'm fairly certain it is all sub $300 u.s. models from gigabyte make use of the same four plus two-phase vrm meanwhile the Auris version that I spoke of earlier gets an upgraded 6 + 2 phase VRM but all models do feature the same 8 pin PCIe power connector those of you wondering the vrm along with half a dozen GDD are six memory chips are cooled via the main heatsink and are connected via aluminium plates moving around to the backside of the card we do find a full-length backplate though be aware it is made from plastic so it won't aid in cooling if anything it'll actually just trap hot air on the backside of the PCB still for those of you who prefer a backplate look it will satisfy your I guess and it does at least protect the backside of the card from your more ham-fisted builders let's say then around at the i/o panel there's three display ports along with a single HDMI port and this is a pretty standard configuration for these cards ok I think that's enough going over the card itself it's time to finally test it out as usual with our graphics card for reviews the focus is on operating temperatures power consumption and overclocking I'll still touch on the outer box performance but I'll do so in just a few games there's really no need to benchmark more than a select few games first off I wanted to see how hot the gaming OSI model got out of the box so as usual I fired up F 1 2018 around the canned benchmark on a loop for an hour with an ambient air temperature of 21 degrees the card maxed out at just 62 degrees and that's 5 degrees cooler than the gaming X model but two degrees warmer than your sous model though it's actually three degrees warmer than a Souza's card as that was measured with a room temperature of 22 degrees you'll also notice an f1 2018 that the core clock hovered from 1935 to 1950 megahertz and that is the typical operating frequency seen across a number of titles this is also the same frequency that the msi and a sous models operated at as for the GDD r6 memory I measured a peak surface temperature of just 66 degrees using k-type thermocouple while the vrm MOSFET speak to just 61 degrees both are relatively low temperatures so the cooler is doing a good job here okay time for some games and first that we have shadow of the Tomb Raider and here the gtx 660ti gaming OC matched the asou and msi gtx 1660 to our models and yeah it matched them exactly so all three tested models rendered 58 FPS on average at 1440p not much more to say here really so let's move on to strange Brigade okay here we see a slight variation in performance though all results are within the margin of error we're talking about a maximum of two fps between the slowest and fastest of the gtx 660ti cards that we've tested in this video and that equates to just shy of a 3% difference since I typically ignore anything less than 5% there isn't much to talk about here either and finally we have Forza horizon 4 and here we have another example of why I only test AIB cards with three games frankly one would really do it once again we see nothing outside of the margin of error comparing the MSI a Seuss and gigabyte GTX 1660 to our models overall performance was good at 1440p so I think it's time to move on and do some overclocking for the overclocking portion of the video I used the msi afterburner utility and things went really well the card accepted plus 110 for the core and plus 1500 for the memory and then the power and temp limits were maxed out this resulted in a typical operating frequency of 2070 megahertz for the core and eighteen hundred and seventy-five megahertz to the memory there afterburner reports the DDR speed of 7500 and one megahertz in short this is the best overclocking result I've received from any of the gtx 1660 TI graphics cards that i've tested yet and that includes the assessor's Strix version this meant on average the Bruce clock was increased by 7% and the GDD are 6 memory by 25% retesting was shut off the Tomb Raider we found this overclocked booster performance by 9 percent which is pretty typical for a GTX 16 60 TI overclocked based on what we've seen from the msi and of soos models already the overclocked also saw the GPU temperature max out at just 67 degrees there I could now just hear the fans over the case fans so it wasn't soup but you could now just hear the graphics card overall a solid overclocking again this is the best I've seen from a GTX 1662 I yet though your mileage will no doubt very given silicon quality and all that and just lastly wrapping up the testing I have some quick power consumption numbers this is total system consumption and we're testing in this standard GPU test rig which uses a core I 999 okay clocked at five gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 memory the gigabyte gtx 1660 TI gaming XO c uses a fraction more power than the msi honest zeus models but overall consumption is pretty much we'd expect it to be well there you have it in terms of performance the gigabyte gtx 1662 own gaming OC it performs exactly like every other 1660 CI that we've seen to date at least when comparing them in terms of framerate performance however we do tend to see a bit of a difference when comparing the various AIB models in terms of operating temperatures sometimes even overclocking Headroom though I wouldn't read too much into that as that will vary between cards temperatures not as much and yeah anyway that was the case here basically the biggest difference we saw between the msi gigabyte and a su smiles we've looked at so far apart from the physical design is the operating temperature the MSI gaming X and a soos ROG Strix OC were also very quiet and thankfully this was also true for the gigabyte gaming OC that said whereas the MSI card hit 67 degrees the gigabyte model max that at just 62 degrees and that meant it was just a few degrees warmer than the asou Strix version and I feel that is a really good result the big advantage this gigabyte model has over the more expensive MSI and a soos cards apart from the fact that it is indeed cheaper is the dual slot design both MSI and a soos went with a factorable slot cooler to achieve the temperatures that they did but gigabyte and managed to do it with a slim dual slot cooler and then just quickly getting back to the price at $300 at 7% over the MSRP but I expect that premium to be well worth it as the dual and single fan models will run hotter and louder meanwhile both MSI and a soos are charging more for their high tier models and with the gigabyte masseuse versions being so similar in terms of thermal performance I'd really struggle to justify spending extra money on the Strix card as nice as it is sorry for me the gigabyte gaming OC is the best value gtx 1660 to a available right now really does offer the perfect balance of price and performance having said all that let me know what you think in the comment section below and if you enjoyed the video be sure to hit the like button you can subscribe for more content and if you appreciate the work we do have our box then consider supporting us on patreon thank you for watching I'm your host Steve and I'll see you next time