Final thoughts and rating
Recent history shows us that Gigabyte knows how to engineer a high-quality graphics card based on NVIDIA's GPUs. The GTX 570 Super Overclock is another case in point: it's well-built, pre-overclocked, and practically silent under load.
Push it farther with some overclocking of your own and it rewards the user with the highest frequencies we've seen from NVIDIA's second-rung (single) GPU. We have no reservations about how the company has gone about constructing this class-leading GPU, but such has been the focus on cooling and speeds, which is considerable, that retail pricing is £300 - or 25 per cent higher than the cheapest GTX 570s we could find.
You know a product is good when pricing alone is the sole concern. £300 is a touch too close to GTX 580 and, potentially, two GTX 560 Tis for the Super Overclock to be recommended outright. Still an excellent proposition, Gigabyte can turn it into a five-star product by encouraging retail partners to snip the cost to £275.
As it is, the Gigabyte GTX 570 Super Overclock is the finest example of the GPU we've seen thus far... though you literally pay for this privilege.
The Good
The fastest GTX 570 we've ever tested
Excellent cooler maintains low temperatures
Keeps quiet under load
Ideal for overclocking
The Bad
Significant premium over bone-stock GTX 570
GTX 580 is an intrinsically better card and not much more money
HEXUS Rating
Gigabyte GTX 570 Super Overclock
(GV-N570SO-13I)
HEXUS Awards
Gigabyte GTX 570 Super Overclock
(GV-N570SO-13I)
HEXUS Where2Buy
The reviewed Gigabyte GTX 570 Super Overclock graphics card is available to purchase from SCAN.co.uk* and Dabs.com.
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