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We are looking at a mid-range Radeon HD card from ASUS. It's their Radeon HD 7850 2GB
DirectCU II TOP. And as always with at TOP model from ASUS it's factory overclocked. We
have tested several factory overclocked cards in the same segment, so let's see how the
ASUS Radeon HD 7850 2GB DirectCU II performs.
It's been a long time since we've seen a video card from ASUS, but today we check out the new HD 7790 DirectCU II OC, and see how it performs.
Having looked at a number of choices for the 7790 from MSI, Sapphire and Club3D, its time to see what is on offer from Asus and when we mention Asus, what comes to mind is DirectCU. We've seen some manufacturers use their own design of coolers across their own product ranges, but no-one it seems has been more successful at this over Asus. Bar only minor design tweaks to cater for different cards, the DirectCU II coolers inherently all look pretty much a part of the same family, each shrouded by the iconic black metal frame and three red stripes that run along the breadth of the cooler.
Graphic cards
AMD have really been making strides in the GPU world lately, and has seen a big boom this year with a huge release of various model graphics cards within the 7000 series of Radeon products and this includes the Radeon HD 7770 among other key models. Another aspect of AMD's push as of late is their Never Settle campaign which offers consumers free games when purchasing their cards with a value of up to $170+, including 20% off Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
One of the cards in the promotion is the Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition which offers the 20% off of MoH, but also gives you Farcry 3 for free, but when buying two Radeon HD 7770's for a CrossFire configuration, you'll also see yourself bagging the new smash hit Hitman: Absolution, so with that in mind, we thought that it would be worth taking another look at some 7770 CrossFire testing, but instead of using reference cards, we wanted to spice things up a bit, well not a bit actually, more like, a LOT.
Though we have nothing against reference cards, we strive on performance and you can't get much more than the HD 7770 DirectCU TOP graphics cards from Asus. For those unaware about these cards, we invite you to check out our single card review here.
As we've already taken a look at the single card, there isn't much point us dwelling on the merits of the cooler and design, so instead we will jump straight into how these perform in CrossFire under our usual barrage of benchmark tests.
Graphic cards
Though the Radeon HD 7770 was released some time ago, its still a big deal for AMD as they are moving up in the market on their Radeon based products. In fact, they are even running a campaign based around their range, dubbed "Never Settle" which involves the addition of free games when purchasing certain Radeon SKUs. Due to this campaign, we thought that it would be a good opportunity to take a look at a particular edition of the HD 7770 from Asus; the DirectCU TOP edition.
Today the particular card we're looking at is the ASUS HD 6970 DirectCU II one. I've quickly become a fan of the DirectCU II cooler for the simple fact it's proven to do an extremely good job when it comes to giving us low temperatures at low noise levels. The biggest gripe people have with the model is that it's of course a triple slot card.
Graphic cards
The AMD Radeon HD 6900 series cards are the latest in AMD's graphics card product catalogue and are their flagship cards when it comes to single GPU with the 5970 still dominating the dual-GPU market.
It's been so long since I've looked at an ASUS video card, so long that I honestly couldn't remember the last time I saw one. I can tell you, though, it was in the day where the TOP series reigned supreme. So what's happening these days with ASUS in the video card market? Well, we haven't paid too much attention to be honest, but it's time to see what this DirectCU II series offers us.
Unsere erste Radeon 6900 hatten gleich nach der Veröffentlichung der ersten Version von Sapphire im Test. Seit dem sind einige Monate vergangen. Die Treiber wurden angepasst und neue vergleichbare Modelle sind am Markt erschienen. Dies haben wir als Anlass genutzt, die aktuellen HD 6970 und 6950 Grafikkarten von Asus zu testen.
There is nothing better than a video card that stays fast while it runs cool. There is nothing worse than video lag because your graphics card is too hot. ASUS has come up with an innovative way to try and keep our cards running the way they should. The ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Direct CU Video Card was made with these concerns in mind. Does it live up to our expectations? You are going to have to take a look inside to see.
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