FRONTPAGE EVGA GTX 970 FTW Graphics Card Review

We've recently reviewed several NVIDIA GTX 980 based graphics cards here at Overclockers, and we came away impressed with their low power consumption, great performance, and "bang-for-the-buck" pricing. Today, we're going to drop it down a notch and have a look at our first GTX 970. More specifically, the EVGA GTX 970 FTW. The factory overclock EVGA applied to the GTX 970 FTW is one of the highest we've ever seen, which leads us to believe EVGA is extremely confident in the headroom that's available on these Maxwell 2 GPUs.

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NiHaoMike said:

What I find unusual is that big empty patch on the end of the card. Is that to give clearance for the fan on the reference cooler style version?

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Lvcoyote said:

No, the reference design PCB is much shorter. The reference cards use a bracket that hangs off the end of the card to mount the cooler's back end to.
Here is an example...
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