ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti Matrix review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's start with our photo-shoot. Two pages worth of photos then and most of it from our own photo-shoot.

Above and below is the card, the ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti MATRIX Platinum edition, the card is a 3GB model. The card uses a DirectCU II 'based' cooler that really gives overall good temperatures as it can eat away and dissipate 450W of heat whilst remaining silent. As a result under full load this card manages to sit under 70 degrees C in our testing. The card is 11 Inches in length which is like 28~29 cm for those in that like and reside in the Metric system. The cooling solution of the card is a dual slot cooler equipped with what ASUS calls cooltech fan technology, basically it helps to push an increased volume of air to the internal heatsink chamber with direct contact surfaces dissipating heat with the help of heatpipes. DirectCU II has two cooling fans, four nickel-plated heat pipes with at least two 10 mm pipes, and a PCB strengthening bracket as well that functions as backplate. ASUS no applied dust-proof fan technology that accelerates heat removal to ensure top-notch graphics performance that’s highly stable. The hybrid blade and bearing design, with inner radial blower and outer flower-type blades, provides multi-directional airflow. 

With the ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti 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. 

And as our article will show later on, there's room for tweaking as we got this puppy running stable at roughly 1150~1200 MHz on the boost frequency. The product has 14 power phases for the GPU helped by the ASUS DIGI+ voltage-regulator module (VRM) technology. Components wise Super Alloy Power’s Japanese-made 10K black-metallic capacitors, concrete-core chokes and hardened MOSFETs all withstand much greater stress and heat. You benefit from extra headroom for experimental performance tuning without generating distracting whines and buzzes.

Each GeForce GTX 780 Ti will have a maximum power design of 250 Watts, but they are made to a little tweaking as well. Above packaging by the way. The Matrix series is based of the ASUS Republic of Gamers line. 

The packaging is well done, safely protected. You receive the standards like power cables manual and driver CD.