
ASUS have applied their DirectCU II cooler to the awesome GTX780Ti. There is also a factory overclock, so how does it perform?
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I still stick by my belief that asus are becoming lazy in terms of GPUs. The 290/290x is crap as far as 290s go for example. I don't know if I have too high an expectation from asus but I was expecting more.
They could've made a cooler that wasn't the 780's oneI think you are, can only do as much as the core will allow. Short of making a new GPU they couldnt have done any more to try and polish the 290 & 290X
They could've made a cooler that wasn't the 780's one.
I'm sure if they do a platinum version it'll be amazing. I'm tempted to say that MSI have the market sector that the normal DCUII cooler used to take.
Yeah I know this its pretty obvious that is the case however others did a better job. Surely the flagship of each generation of 'card, be it Nvidia or AMD, should have coolers designed or at least modified around the card in question. Prices would be a bit higher, but if you're getting the flagship 'card you're not going to worry about price that much. Obviously it'd be unfair to expect them to do what GPU specific brands do (e.g. Sapphire, Gainward) and come up with a cooler that performs excellently across the range of chips. I'm sure if they do some super powered 'card it'll be amazing as I said earlier its just the DCUII isn't as good as others and with Asus being huge players you'd expect more.If they made a new cooler every time the price would rocket....
The DCUII cooler is actually very good at what it does.
Especially with AMD. Best gen so far for custom coolers imo.They are still good cards and there is no major reason not to buy them, it's just that the other non ref cooled cards seem to be doing better lately.
Especially with AMD. Best gen so far for custom coolers imo.
The green team also have it good, nice to see that the Gainward is getting popular. Also inno3D's iChill 780 is my currently my fave 'card. I have one permanently sitting in my basket on overclockers. I've had my wallet out soo many times.
Supposedly they've improved the noise quite a bit. I've only ever seen the 780 in the flesh and not the others so I can't really say.Not tested that one, the older ones were not what I would have called quiet though