EVGA Z87 Stinger Motherboard and GTX 760 FTW Graphics Card Review

EVGA GeForce GTX 760 FTW! Graphics Card

EVGA stick with familiar design on their box and highlight the fact that this is an overclocked card with 4GB of memory. Inside they bundle some documentation, a software CD, case badge, poster and power cable wrapped in a high quality bag. Also available through various retailers is a free copy of Assassins Creed 4.

EVGA go with a dual slot, two fan cooler which they call ACX. It features aluminium fins, copper heatpipes and fan blades which are strengthened, as well as being lighter, on the double ball bearing fans. There are two SLI connectors on the top edge of the PCB, dust covered like the outputs, and on the back of the PCB is a dual BIOS switch. This is designed to allow us to flash alternate BIOS files and play with overclocking options.

This 760 is powered by an 8-pin and 6-pin connector and round at the card outputs we find a dual DVI, HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort connectors. As with the other models this GTX 760 is capable of running four screens at one time with three available for surround gaming at resolutions such as 5760×1080 and the fourth running off a separate controller for desktop applications such as messaging.

The reference specifications for the 28nm GeForce GTX 760 are 980MHz core (base clock) with a boost clock of 1033MHz and the 2GB of GDDR5 memory is set to 1500MHz. EVGA go with 1085MHz base, 1150MHz Boost with memory at 1502MHz. There are 96 Texture units within the core along with 32 ROPS, 4 graphics processing clusters and 6 streaming multiprocessors. For the CUDA Cores NVIDIA have gone for a 1152 "core" design and our memory bus is 256-bit (4×64). PCIe 3.0, DirectX 11 and DirectCompute are all supported on this card as is acceleration of high definition content and the card can output 7.1 audio over HDMI as well as support PhysX, 4K displays and 3D Vision.

It is also worth noting some EVGA warranty points…

– Most EVGA products now carry a 3 Year Warranty (also upgradable to 5 or 10 years upon registration).
– Product warranty covers the product, not the user.
– Registration is no longer required for RMAs with our Guest RMA process.
– Step-Up and Extended Warranties will be available for all original owners registered with the new global RMA system within 30 days of the purchase.
– If you move, you can send your product back to your local warranty centre no matter what region you purchased it in.
– A new Standard Cross-Shipping RMA service is available.

More details about EVGA’s new Global Warranty can be found here.