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| The box of greatness! |
It is here! After an intense three days of waiting, the best budget graphics card finally arrived at my doorstep. This card looks awesome, and I can't wait to test it out when I get a more powerful PSU.
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| Dose heatpipes |
The card is the Direct CUII card from ASUS. This means that there are two heatpipes going from the GPU away and under the heatsink and fans, allowing for better cooling from the card. This means that the card is quieter as well, because the fans don't need to run as hard to keep the card cool under load.
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| Dose brackets (Pardon the booze. I should clean up.) |
Being a dual bracket card, it's quite wide, but still small when you look at some of the competition. Also, the size of the card adds strength, so it won't flex or anything as much when installing, which is always a good thing.
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| Dat PCB |
The specs of the card are such: 950MHz on the base Core clock with 975MHz boost clock, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 5600MHz Memory clock (1400MHz effective). The card is overclocked by Asus themselves, which may or may not be good, but Asus does know what they are doing with their products. I'll probably benchmark this with both a reference clock speed, the Asus overclock, and an overclock to the best I can get. The card takes 1 6-pin PCIe connector with a TDP of 150W. It is also a PCI-e 3.0 card, so it is compatible with every motherboard for the foreseeable future.
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| Dose fans |
This card being part of AMD's new R series means that it will be able to use Mantle when it is released for Battlefield 4 and Thief. This will push the card's effectiveness into overdrive, and really get the most out of the card. I can't wait to get the card installed and tell you guys how it works.
Happy gaming.
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