Gadgetory

hardware canucks CES coverage is made possible by our partner Nvidia it is also made possible thanks to Corsair fantex and NCI X how can you make an awesome graphics card even more exciting that was probably the question gigabyte had at the back of their mind when designing the new Xtreme gaming series of GPUs right now mainly for Nvidia but with AMD cards added later so it still features the windforce 3x cooler but with the new added features like the ring RGB lighting behind the fan blades which looks awesome it can obviously be turned off but the main attraction here is what could be done with these ring lights to make your experience with the card even better in terms of the physical aesthetics side of things first the color can coordinate with the temperature of the GPU which is awesome and second of course to highlight the triple fan design and full RGB support with the spectrum lighting and all types of different effects now this would require a flipped motherboard design as otherwise down facing fans will do nothing on the visual front and so you would have to coordinate with your case to make sure that you take a full advantage of the extreme gaming series of the GPUs also for the 980ti edition of the extreme gaming the middle fan spins in the opposite direction that apparently allows better heat dissipation of the hot air I'm surprised this hasn't been done before and also features an extra six pin on the backside of the PCB for added overclocking power to the already dual eight pin connections and so these GPU chips are specifically picked by gigabyte to allow for best possible overclock and I think this might actually compete with the kingpin edition from EVGA in terms of the i/o that has not changed so the only thing you gain is the extra cooler potential given the card is two-and-a-half slots for the 980ti and the 970 in the 980 are smaller just two slots plus all of them will have the RGB lighting and on overall outstanding looking GPU