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There are typically claims about issues running high resolutions. They are here for your perusal. They seem to have done quite well with the software for this card, getting pretty close to a seamless solution as is their AISuite II is for their motherboards. While rated at MHz, when running a benchmark, the card runs closer to MHz peaking at MHz and hovering near there for the entirety than it does to its rated MHz.
With those clocks consistently right out of the gate, you can tell this card is going to be a strong performer. The box is…. Why they chose to do that is beyond me. Flipping the top on that, you see the accessory box. Once that is removed, we come to the card itself. There was actually an antistatic bag under the card, which presumably was around it at one point. The QC person must have just forgotten to put it back in the bag.
The accessories stack is, well, by any definition paltry. Usually there is some semblance of an adapter or two for various monitor types. Not here. No video adapters, no included game…nada. Here is the main event. It truly is a thing of beauty. Built like it can withstand Armageddon, with great looks to boot. It even ships with a good looking backplate, which is more than can be said about some cards that require them to be purchased separately.
Ok, twist my arm; one more. The cooler is easily removed via the four screws around the GPU. On the right of the card, you can see that the backplate actually makes contact via a thermal pad with the aluminum fins of the heatsink.
Kudos to the engineer that thought of that one. Contact between the three-heatpipe cooler and the GPU is solid, with paste spreading uniformly. The paste appears to be your standard OEM paste, not bad but not great. It scrapes off more than wipes off. The contact via the thermal pad is consistent throughout. Unlike the backplate, this heatsink does not physically touch the bigger GPU heatsink, but comes ever so close. It makes contact via a very thin thermal coating over the metal.
As you can see, the GPU heatsink has three heatpipes for drawing the heat away from the GPU, going to a massive fin assembly. The fins are cooled by two extremely quiet 92 mm fans. If you turn them up all the way manually, you can hear the fans. Disassembled Disassembled There is memory on both sides of the card, with eight MB chips totaling two gigabytes; four on each side of the card.
These light up to let you know whether you have the PCIe power cords plugged in properly — a nifty feature. They are red when the card is powered solely by the PCIe slot and individually turn green when you plug the proper power cord in. You can see them better in the photo with the backplate on from above.
Card Front Card Rear Now we get to a big deal about this card — the power section. Unfortunately, the default PowerTune limit is just too low to let you unleash all the power this card has to offer. Hopefully, there will be a software solution to help improve that. They have even given us permission to distribute it with a written disclaimer of potential card damage of course. Additionally, in talks with ASUS, they want to stress just how non-reference this card is.
The power section has been designed from the ground up to deliver stronger, more consistent power to the GPU. There are six phases for the GPU instead of just four on the reference card.
In response to their customers, they have also gone with this power design to address an issue with GPU power delivery that plagues many reference cards on both sides of the aisle — choke whine.
Their Super Alloy Choke fixes that problem. They also use better capacitors Super Alloy Capacitors that they report as having two and a half times longer life. Lastly, ASUS mentions that this design has lower noise than reference cards.
Increased noise leads to increased stability. This it the first review using our new GPU testing procedure and platform. The specific test setup used in this review is below. He was kind enough to jump on that and re-run everything on the new platform. When you turn the fan up it does even better, and remains extremely quiet even at full blast. So far we have a cool running, efficient GPU. It has been refined and worked over such that it overclocks easily and to the max the card is able to produce.
Let us unleash these beasts! With that limit, this card overclocked a decent amount. This is certainly a far cry from the stock boost clock. Now we get to the fun part — performance results! Our first trifecta of games includes Aliens vs. The Batman SC result is perplexing. Both MattNo5ss and I ran it multiple times, verifying every setting was the same across the board for both our test system and the game itself.
What IS surprising is Batman and Metro. Which leads me to a happy conclusion — 2GB of memory is fine. Now, it definitely should be said that none of these games are playable throughout at this resolution with everything turned up like this.
Ok, maybe Dirt 3, but even that lagged a couple of times. It looked great and had zero lag. Now for some benchmarking fun. If you froze the CPU and came up with a way to increase the Power Target limit, this card has some real potential even just on air.
That was my reaction when graphing the results above. There is literally nothing to dislike about this card. It runs cool, it sips power, and it does both with extremely impressive results. Aside from THAT, there is nothing to dislike. Its awe-inspiring engineering and beauty are perfectly matched by the extreme performance delivered, resulting in graphics for those demanding only the best.
ASUS includes the CoolTech fan, which has twin sets of blades, combining an axial blower and a flower-type fan in one to offer wider and more consistent airflow and push more hot air out of the case quickly to keep your PC nice and cool.
GPU Tweak helps you modify clock speeds, voltages, fan performance and more, all via an intuitive interface. GPU Tweak streaming tool that you share on-screen action in real time — so others can watch live as games are played. CoolTech Fan ASUS includes the CoolTech fan, which has twin sets of blades, combining an axial blower and a flower-type fan in one to offer wider and more consistent airflow and push more hot air out of the case quickly to keep your PC nice and cool.
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