ASUS GeForce GTX 780 STRIX 6 GB Graphics Card Review

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Alright pretty pictures time. Here shall follow a couple of pages with photo's from our humble photo-shoot.
 

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First up, packaging. Below the GeForce GTX 780 from ASUS and yes, it is a rather cool looking bloke.The card is using an updated revision of the DirectCU II design, which now has 10mm direct-contact copper heat-pipes for pretty good heat dissipation. So under hood it remains the same, yet the aesthetics have changed alright. Next to that the card fans will not spin / rotate until you reach roughly 70 degrees C. Interesting as up-to that point the card this does not make any noise whatsoever.
 

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The cooling design consists of a blade / bearing design, with an inner radial blower and outer flower-type blades. Combined, they provide directional airflow to accelerate heat removal and enable consistently stable graphics card performance. The card is quite a looker with the all new design, have a peek:

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There wwill be two SKUs available on the market, the normal and OC edition. Our OC edition comes factory overclocked towards a 889 MHz core and 941 MHz Boost frequency. The memory runs at 6008 MHz (effective data-rate). Both SKUs will be 6GB editions, meaning you get 6GB graphics memory. I know, it is a lot of marketing, as the cooler really gives overall good but not excellent temperatures. The aluminum radiator covers the VRM and even memory area. The cooler can dissipate 425W of heat whilst remaining fairly silent. As a result under full load this card manages to stay at roughly 70 degrees C in our testing. 

 

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With the GeForce GTX 780 you will receive four display connectors, you'll spot a full size Display port connector, one full size HDMI connector and two DVI connectors (dual-link). You can combine these connectors to setup a surround view (multi-monitor) setup. One card will give you more than sufficient performance to play your games on three monitors.

To date we still receive this question a lot, but dual-link DVI does not mean you can hook up two monitors to one connector. Dual-link means double the signal bandwidth, that way monitor resolutions over 1920x1200 can be supported or you could use a 120Hz monitor. So explained very simple, dual-link DVI supports high-resolution (above 1920x1200) or high-refresh rate (120Hz) monitors.

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ASUS offers this SKU in a 6GB edition factory clocked and overclocked edition. And as our article will show later on, there's room for tweaking as we got this puppy running stable over 1200 MHz on the boost frequency.
 

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Each GeForce GTX 780 will have a maximum power design of roughly 250 Watts, but they are made to overclock as well. As such you will see one 150W 8-pin PEG, and one 75W 6-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connector. Another 75 to 150 Watts is delivered though the PCI slot and thus motherboard. This should be plenty for any overclocking and tweaking sessions.

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