14 DAY TRIAL // GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards from NVIDIA have been up for sale for a few weeks now, officially anyway, but some OEMs are still catching up, like GALAX has just done.
In truth, no one is actually catching up with anyone. While NVIDIA Maxwell cards were officially launched weeks ago, they've mostly been out of stock.
The situation is slowly improving, however, and Galax has decided that this would be the prime time for its release of the GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Hall of Fame.
In case you're confused by the name, Galax is the result of Galaxy and its European brand KFA2 merging into a single unit back in September.
The Galax GeForce GTX 970 HOF video card has 1216 / 1380 MHz GPU Base/Boost clocks and a triple-fan cooler with backplate. The cooler easily handles the heat and allows owners to overclock the card as well.
The GTX 980 HOF runs at 1,304 MHz / 1,418 MHz and has the same propensity for overclocking as the other model does. According to Galaxy, the board should be able to exceed 1.5 GHz on air (the 7 heatpipes and triple-slot fansink don't disappoint) and 2.1 GHz on liquid nitrogen.
The 10-phase power design helps here (8 GPU phases and 2 VRAM phases).
Finally, the Galax HOF Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and 970 use DVI-I, HDI and three DisplayPorts. Sadly, prices weren't mentioned.
