ASUS Unviel ROG-Branded Graphics Card with Air-Liquid Hybrid Cooler

[WYP]

ASUS is preparing its own hybrid-cooled and (almost certainly) overclocked GeForce GTX 780 card, called as Poseidon. The company gave a sneak peek of the card which will likely be the flagship of the Republic of Gamers lineup. It will feature a DIGI+ VRM, highly-durable Black Metallic Capacitors and the new DirectCU H20 cooler which combines air and liquid cooling to allow for better performance and quieter operation.

DirectCU H20 has two dust-proof fans, three heatpipes, a large heatsink and a water block, which promises to improve the durability and overclockability of the gpu.

Based on the prototype card ASUS showcased earlier in the year, the ROG Poseidon will have three working modes - air only, liquid only and combined (air and liquid) cooling options.

At present no clocks, price or release date has been given.

 

[Tripp]

i can see that performing really well

 

[ShaunB-91]

Looks sexy on that board!

 

[tinytomlogan]

Facebooked Mr newshound!

 

[SPS]

To say they haven't exactly sacrificed the aesthetics of the card, I'd say it was a pretty good idea.

 

[murphy7801]

hideous also thought one of the main reasons to water cool was for it to be quiter but this has small fans...so seems little pointless to me what ever other people seem keen so probably sell well.

 

[ShaunB-91]

Under the last pic he says it has three cooling modes, liquid, air, or liquid and air so the fans can be turned off murphy7801.

 

[SPS]

hideous also thought one of the main reasons to water cool was for it to be quiter but this has small fans...so seems little pointless to me what ever other people seem keen so probably sell well.

What's hideous about it?

If you water cool it you could disable the fans...

 

[JLR]

I'm liking this.

 

[RizeAllard]

Looks good. But we need an OC3D review of it...
To be sure they give (AS)us what they say.

 

[m0r0n]

Nipples are hard ... Must not watch p0rn !

 

[FTR.4500MHz]

I hope they make the actual waterblock out of copper/nickel plated, otherwise corosion problems might appear if manufactured out of aluminum.

 

[SuB]

hideous also thought one of the main reasons to water cool was for it to be quiter but this has small fans...so seems little pointless to me what ever other people seem keen so probably sell well.

Did you read the post?

It has 3 modes, fan only, water only, combined....

 

[WYP]

hideous also thought one of the main reasons to water cool was for it to be quiter but this has small fans...so seems little pointless to me what ever other people seem keen so probably sell well.

When you water cool it the fans will spin at much lower rpms due to the temperature decrease, so it will be quieter when water cooled. Also remember when water cooled there is the option to turn the fans off.

As for it being loud, we won't know until it is released mate. I'm sure TTL will get one of these at some stage.


I do really like the idea of this card, custom pcb, combined air and water cooling, it sounds like an overclockers dream. I wonder if there will be a 290x version?

i really want to see how well this performs, on air, water and both. As an Engineer I love this design, as a pc enthusiast i love this card, i really hope this card works as well as it sounds.

 

[Playback]

It would be interesting if the water actually went through the heatpipes to make the air cooler act as a radiator. THAT would be proper hybrid cooling. It would need slightly bigger (and more) pipes though, but that shouldn't be much of a problem. The only minus would be it not being able to run solely on air cooling.

It wouldn't be very useful in bigger cases where you have a lot of radiator space, but it would probably help quite a bit in smaller builds.

 

[mArTyN]

After seeing this, I need to get a job more than ever !:lol:

 

[Kaapstad]

Expensive folly

They should have made it with a waterblock, end of story.

Having fans and extra modes just adds to the complexity, cost and unreliability.

 

[Gloremir]

It looks really sexy, but isnt it a NON TI, just a 780. Sweclockers.com stated that at the reveal at dreamhack, as they where there. buy maybe they are wrong??

 

[tabuburn]

Not sure if ASUS recycled the shot of the bare PCB from that of the GTX 780 DCUII one but the part number on the die looks like it reads GK110-300-A1. Isn't that the part number of the GTX 780 since the GTX 780 Ti's is GK110-425-B1?

 

[nex-s]

Why don't they put their new CoolTech fans on these?