ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU Mini OC Review
Published by Christian Ney on 19.09.13Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
| Overall ASUS did a great job with their ultra compact GTX 760 DirectCU
Mini. Even though it's not as complicated to come up with a small form
factor GTX 760 as it was with the GTX 670, ASUS did it and so far they
are the only manufacturer (The Galaxy Mini is longer). The design is
nice and we have to say the card looks even more gorgeous without the
plastic cover and the cooler just plain naked. The small cooler is able to cope with the heat generated by the GK104 GPU but unfortunately to a cost, we have to say that it is a bit noisier than what we're used to from ASUS' DirectCU coolers. |
- Cooling
- Design - Compact form factor |
- Bundle | |
| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| GPU Temperatures were good with a maximum of 75°C under heavy FurMark load with the fan locked at
lowest fan speed. Unfortubately since the lowest fan speed seems to be
39% on the 760 Mini, used to be 30% on the 670 Mini, the noise levels
are bad, the Mini is as loud in idle as the DirectCU II OC at 70% fan
speed. After one hour gaming the maximum fan speed measured was 56 % and GPU temperature 69°C. Translated it means a maximum noise level of around 40 dBA. So in the end the DirectCU Mini cooler does a really good job for its size but sacrificing silence, it could be much quieter. |
- Cooling performance | - Noise levels | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| Thanks to the factory overclocking and the good cooler, the Mini
OC is on average 9 % faster than the reference card from nVidia in the
tested games. One might think that 9 % difference is a bit high with
only a difference of 39 MHz on the boost clock and you are right but in
our case the Mini was always clocking itself up to 1'149 MHz while the
reference card was clocked at 1'033 MHz on average. A closer look at the power consumption shows good. Mini's power consumption in idle is right inbetween the EVGA card and the DC2OC at the bottom of the table. Under load, while offering the same performance as the DirectCU II OC, the Mini burns 8 Watt less. Since the PCB is the same, we think the explanation lies on the presence of only one fan on the Mini and a higher ASIC quality. |
- Performance/Watt
- Power consumption |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| Price wise, ASUS didn't do the same mistake like with the GTX 670 Mini that was about 80 Euros more expensive than the cheapest 670. Here the 760 Mini costs only 25 Euros more than the cheapest GTX 760 offer and 10 Euros more than the DirectCU II OC. If you should be looking for a graphics card for an ultra compact gaming PC, then this card is perfectly suitable and is also the only one of its kind. But if you are able to fit a longer card then we wouldn't recommend the Mini because of its noises levels. In this case you might want to go for the DirectCU II OC for exemple, same performance, cheaper and much quieter. |
- Gaming
- MiniITX |
- Slient PC | |
| We gave the GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU Mini OC from ASUS 3.5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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