EVGA GeForce GTX 770 w/ ACX Cooler Pro Reviews

What’s not to like about the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC with ACX cooling? The card offers excellent performance, it has a high-performing custom cooler that also happens to be very quiet, the card’s overclockable, and we think it looks cool too. If we had to nitpick, the fact that the GeForce GTX 770 is built around last year’s GPU technology is a bit off-putting. And we’d also like to see more aggressive pricing on the card (it’s currently selling for $419) considering the similarly priced Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition has a larger frame buffer and comes with a bunch of games. All things considered though, we really dig the EVGA GeForce GTX 770 SC with ACX cooling. It does everything a high-end graphics card should do and it’s backed by one of the more enthusiast-friendly companies in the business. If you’re shopping for a graphics card in the $400 price range, do yourself a favor and check this one out.

EVGA has done an excellent job yet again. Coming up with a cooler that copes so well with an overclocked GPU wasn’t easy, but EVGA pulled it off with flying colors. It managed to hit the sweet spot, as the ACX cooler does a better cooling than the reference design, while at the same time generating same noise. The ACX cooler is a great alternative to the reference Titan-derived cooler. It is not silent under load, but it is so quiet that you can barely hear it outside the chassis. As usual, Superclocked cards ship with a nice factory overclock and the GTX 770 Superclocked is no exception. It is clocked 65MHz higher than the reference card and it is up to 6 percent faster. The GTX 770 SC ACX does not run out of steam at 2560x1600 resolution either, depending on the level of eye candy. The GTX 770 has 2GB of GDDR5 and unless you have some very specific requirements, 2GB should be enough for comfortable gaming. For those who strive for more there’s another SKU with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. Most users, however, probably don’t need the extra 2GB of memory.