OC3D Best Of 2011 Awards
Graphics Cards
Gigabyte GTX580SOC
When it comes to GPUs there is a clear King of the hill and it’s the GTX580 (fan boy arguments can be saved until later). Of all the versions we saw this year one really captured our imagination with a great cooling solution and sledgehammer performance. The Gigabyte GTX580 Super OverClock was simply fantastic. Read our review here or watch our video review here.
Sparkle GTX560Ti Calibre
When the GTX560Ti Calibre from Sparkle arrived we were stunned. Sparkle had been quiet for quite a while and suddenly this card appeared that was blisteringly fast, quiet and damn good value. It was proof you don’t need to sell a kidney to get a decent level of eye-candy in the latest titles. Read our review here.
KFA2 GTX570
Many graphics cards have appeared in 2011 with a variety of underlying GPUs and many different ways to approach the problem of giving fantastic performance, good looks and be cool and quiet. We’ve always said here at OC3D that if it was our wallet on the line we’d plump for a GTX570 as the perfect balance of performance and price, and the KFA2 GTX570 was the finest GTX570 we tested. Read the review here.
