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‘WARNING! WARNING! you just spent £600 on a GPU, hide the credit card bill from the girlfriend!' The yellow warning strip is intended to make you believe you have ‘awesome taste' for buying this card … however we do like the artwork on the box. Don't worry there are no toxic components inside.
The bundle inside is decent. The company include converter cables, literature on the product, a disc, 3DMark serial key, door hanger and mouse mat. We noticed the back of a ‘3M' sticker which was used – we would imagine Inno3D included a company badge to stick on the case, but clearly a previous reviewer fancied a memento.
OverclockersUK are giving away a copy of Watchdogs with the Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS. Our review sample looked to have been roughly handled by a previous reviewer so we had to spend some time cleaning the card for the pictures.
The Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 Ti iChill DHS is a stunning looking graphics card – finished in a grey and black metal surround. There is a back plate in place with the words ‘HerculeZ Design' highlighted in the middle. It is 300mm long. This helps to keep the PCB cool and protected.
The card has allen bolts all around the cooler. These can be loosened to get access to the PCB and the three fans in the cooler (for cleaning for instance). The fans are a Dust proof design to keep dust away from the bearings. The Allen key is held inside the plastic panel at the side of the card (shown above).
The card takes power from a single 8 pin and a single 6 pin PCIe connector.
It is fully SLi capable, although remember these cards are three slot and may prove tricky to run in SLi depending on your motherboard and case.
Connectivity is supported with two DVI ports, and a full sized DisplayPort and HDMI port.
The cooler is built around two separate aluminum heatsinks – 3 of the 5 heatpipes run straight through the longer rack of aluminum fins. Two heatpipes bend backwards into the smaller heatsink area.
It’s a great card for performance and some light future-proofing… At the cost of about $700 and tax… that is hard money to justify, unless you know you will not regret it. Again, the price is probably the only ‘con’ but at the same time, it is difficult to justify the high price as a con, when this is a company’s flagship device we are talking about. If anything, I am just glad it didn’t start at a price much closer to the Titan (for how it performs, compared to the GTX 780)… that is just $300 dollars way north of the 780 Ti (or $600 if its SLI).
Hard to go wrong with one of these.