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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today we’ll be reviewing ASUS’s custom implementation of the Radeon HD 7870, the ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II (HD7870-DC2-2GD5-V2). The Radeon HD 7870 is a mid to high end graphics card, which features a 1GHz clock speed, 1280 stream processors, 80 TUs, 32 ROPs, and 2GB of GDDR5 running off a 256-bit memory bus...
The ASUS Radeon HD 7970 3GB came out on January 9th, 2012 and is based on the AMD Radeon HD 7970 reference card. ASUS sent over a card for us to try out and do some CrossFire testing with. Read on to see how AMD Radeon HD 7970 does in a multi-GPU CrossFire setup when it comes to performance, power consumption, overclocking and more!
The ASUS EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5 has a Radeon HD 4890 GPU at the heart of the graphics card, but you couldn't tell by looking at it. The EAH4890 HTDI/1GD5 has been designed by ASUS and utilizes features like Super ML Caps, a six heat pipe cooling solution, and higher clock speeds to improve gaming performance. This is unlike any video card you might have bought a couple years ago.
Value conscious gamers are always looking to get the most bang for their buck. With vendors now offering overclocked 5000 series variants, we take a look at the EAH5850 DirectCU TOP offering from ASUS. With an overclock out of the box and full voltage control that is backed by a 3-year warranty, this promises to be a great card!
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