The card
ASUS equipped the new ROG GTX 760 Striker Platinum graphics card with its
own dual-slot, dual-fan cooler. It features CoolTech fan technology,
which combines axial and radial approach in one single fan in order to
move more air over the heatsink at the same noise level and apart from that
increase cooling efficiency. The first,
or precisely, the right side fan is the standard one which provides directional airflow which
is combined with the second, left side hybrid
fan.
The fans are in charge of cooling the hefty heatsink which features one 10mm
direct-contact copper heatpipe and two 6mm,
and should, according to ASUS, provide up to 30 percent cooler operation
compared to reference cooled graphics cards. The ROG GTX 760 Striker Platinum
also comes with an aluminum back plate which should keep the backside cool as
well as provide more structural ridgidity to the entire graphics card. In order
to make the looks even more special, there the cards name plate features a
backlight that shimmers in different colors depending on GPU load.
The ASUS ROG GTX 760 Striker
Platinum graphics card, or to be precise our sample of
it, allowed a maximum stable overclock of 1319 MHz
for the GPU and 1651 MHz on the memory side. We
used Furemark V1.11.0 Geeks3D benchmark with 15 minutes duration. With these
clocks we had to feed the GPU with 1.21 Volts and the memory ran at stock
voltages.
The custom PCB features ASUS' DIGI+ 8-phase with Black Metallic Capacitors,
concrete-core chokes and hardened MOSFETs,
in order to
ensure high stability. The custom PCB
is not the only feature
on the new GTX 760 Striker as it also comes with the ROG color-coded LED LOGO
which shows GPUs load level
as well as the ASUS' ROG Edition GPU Tweak
which gives you precise control over GPU clock frequency, VRM and
the cooler.
The memory chips used
on the GTX 760 Striker are made by SKhynix and carry the model number
H5GQ2H24AFR. They are specified to run at 1502 MHz (6008 MHz effective)
which is a default frequency and there is no overclocking on the
memory part, simply
because ASUS used
4096MB of memory instead of
2048 MB,
as the higher
capacity memory
usually mean lower overclocking possibility.