Worse than reference AIB card, can be cured but not worth it.

Gigabyte paired a bad cooler with a really bad firmware for this card. Despite the low cost, this card barely compares with the reference design in cooling and performance, frequently failing to maintain even the fairly low target clocks. I threw out the bad cooler and replaced it with a hunter duet 240mm double aio cooler which is adequate alongside a haswell i7. The BIOS can be replaced with the one from Gigabyte's G1, allowing more competitive 1290mhz clocks with good stability, but I wouldn't try this with the inadequate "windforce" cooler which comes with the card.

Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned