It appears that ASUS will have a couple of versions of the DirectCU 3 cooler and although we have seen the taller special edition one on the GTX 980 Ti at Computex 2015 show, it appears that a normal version of the cooler will debut on the GTX 960.

Spotted by Videocardz.com, the dual-slot triple-fan DirectCU 3 cooler should show up on mid-range to high-end graphics cards, including the picture GTX 960 and possibly the upcoming AMD Radeon 300 series.

Based on three three heatsinks, one directly drawing heat from the GPU and two aluminum heatsink on the sides, which are interconnected with three 8mm copper heatpipes in direct contact with the GPU, the ASUS DirectCU 3 cooler will also feature three temperature controlled 80mm fans.

The pictured ASUS GTX 960 DirectCU 3 is factory-overclocked to 1228MHz for the GPU base clock, 1291MHz for the GPU boost while 2GB of GDDR5 memory works at reference 7.0GHz. This is a decent factory-overclock considering that the reference version works at 1127MHz and 1178MHz for GPU base and Boost clocks.

Currently, ASUS' GTX 960 with DirectCU 3 cooler was only spotted in China and we have no details if such graphics card will be even launched worldwide but we will surely keep an eye on it.





Source: Videocardz.com.