Gigabyte RTX 3060 Eagle Review
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The box is the modern Gigabyte style that uses a largely black box alongside their orange colouring and the giant bird of prey eye that we’ve seen on many of their recent box arts.
Simplicity is the name of the game with the Gigabyte Eagle. It’s a twin fan cooler that eschews the glitz and glamour approach for a more affordable take. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t great at doing the thing we mainly want our coolers to do, namely cooling the card.
Around the back the dark grey colouring continues alongside the bold font that tells you exactly what this card is. If you’ve grown weary of identikit cards that are a company name away from being completely interchangeable, then the Gigabyte Eagle might pique your interest.
The dark grey coating allows the polished copper heatpipes to truly shine. It reminds us of the old HD4850 style coolers. It’s all a matter of personal preference of course, but we like the old school aesthetic. You can also see that the RTX 3060 only needs a single 8pin PCIe power input, a nice change from the three 8pins of the higher cards in the Nvidia range.
A gap in the backplate that allows the airflow to move towards the top half of your chassis is becoming a regular feature on a whole swathe of cards and we’re very keen. Although the RTX 3060 Eagle isn’t very wide the CPU section of your setup is often starved for cool air because of the GPU and this solution is both simple and effective.
Lastly around the back we have the display outputs which, on the Eagle are two 1.4a DisplayPorts and 2 HDMI 2.1 for all your 8K60 needs.
