Galaxy’s GTX 770 Hall of Fame edition benchmarked

Unboxing the Galaxy GTX 770 HOF

The Galaxy GTX 770 HOF arrives in a box that advertises the card without its specifications on its outside other than it is “HOF – Hall of Fame”. It features its 2GB framebuffer, Custom cooling, Force Air bracket, SLI, DirectX11, PhysX and DX11, as well as Galaxy’s premium 3-year warrranty.

The back of the Galaxy box goes into more detail about overclocking, premium cooling and components, the white PCB, and we see the key features of the card as well as, “why Galaxy”.

Great utilities are included, including Galaxy’s Xtreme Tuner Plus which includes an improved GPU voltage tuner. One end panel shows the card’s connection possibilities.

The end panels gives the key features, minimum system requirements as well as what’s included in the box. The card comes well-protected and in an anti-static bag.

Inside the box, besides the new GTX 770 HOF, we find a driver CD, manual, Molex to 8-Pin PCI-E power connector as well as adapters to adapt to a Single Link DVI display to the mini-HDMI ports on the card.

There is no SLI bridge included with the card as they usually are packaged with SLI-enabled motherboards. You can mix cards from different vendors with different clock speeds but you cannot mix cards with different amounts of cores or different framebuffers as you can with AMD’s competing multi-GPU solution, CrossFire.

The Galaxy GTX 770 is an extraordinarily good looking card with three fans and 5 heatpipes to keep the GPU cool and quiet. Dual 8-pin PCIe connectors can be seen in the image below, and the LED behind the lettering on the edge, GeForce GTX 700 Series, lights up and “breathes” as it dims and brightens to its own beat.

Let’s turn it over. An all-white videocard looks good installed inside a PC. The card itself, without the bracket/cooler is only a single slot width, which opens up quite a few possibilities for modders. As far as we know, there are no custom waterblocks for the HOF, but there are probably universal solutions available.

The connectors on the reference version are 2 dual-link DVI, 1 HDMI 1.4a and 1 DisplayPort 1.1a, but the Galaxy HOF uses a Display Port and 3 mini-HDMI. Unfortunately, we did not have an active Dual Link DVI to DisplayPort cable or adapters, and we could not use our HP LP3065 30″ display at 2560×1600. If you have the kind of display that requires Dual Link DVI, such as 3D Vision at 120Hz, you will need a rather expensive active adapter.

The Galaxy GTX 770 HOF is factory overclocked and is warrantied for three years. Galaxy has included their Xtreme Tuner overclocking software on the driver DVD or as a download on their site and you can even raise the voltage. This is a tool that we use with great results including overclocking our new GTX beyond the factory overclock. With a great warranty and 24/7 phone support, Galaxy offers great service! We can’t wait to test out our new card, but before we begin the testing, head over to our testing configuration.