Review: Gigabyte GV-N970IX-4GD

Conclusion

Gigabyte follows in the footsteps of Asus in retailing a potent GeForce GTX 970 graphics card presented in a Mini-ITX form factor that's becoming more and more popular of late.

Nvidia's energy-efficient Maxwell architecture is a good fit for a card of this ilk, and Gigabyte makes the most of it with a package that's overclocked a touch, cool, power frugal, and, surprisingly given the company's recent history, not too loud.

We'd like to see the company take another look at how much heat is pumped back into the case via the open-air design, but, priced at £275 or so, that's our list of gripes for this special-purpose card.

Offering performance that's on a par with the Radeon R9 290 and more basic GTX 970s, those looking for high-performance gaming in a small form factor - a LAN-friendly rig, in other words - would do well to take note of the GV-N970IX-4GD version.

Hard to beat from a form factor and performance point of view, Gigabyte's card is certainly worthy of consideration if you need big performance from a small card.

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