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Last month, we took a look at EVGA's GTX 780, which sported a new, fancy-britches “ACX” cooler. This month, it's Asus's turn with its own redesigned and totally non-reference Asus GeForce GTX 780 DirectCU II OC 3GB . At first glance, this GPU's most...
The 780 is an impressive piece of kit. The Titan is too expensive just for gaming, and if you don't want to stretch to the expense of a 690, the 780 is the best gaming choice on performance. Having said that, the 770 is much cheaper, and you're not sacrificing that many frames. On overall value, then, the 770 wins out. But the 780 is still a great product that will grab the attention of serious gamers.
The ASUS GTX 780 DCII OC is a top end card with plenty of attitude and aggressive style to wake up any gaming rig. For this it earns the Bjorn3D Golden Bear Award...
ASUS' GTX 780 DirectCU II OC graphics card will run the latest games, at the highest resolution, and at the best quality possible. It's very expensive, large, and demands a lot of power, but great performance, good cooling and a lot of overclocking...
How does Asus's take on the GTX 780 (aka almost-a-Titan) compare with the previous generation of Radeons and Geforces?For starters, Asus, like many of the other custom AIC designs for the GTX 780, chose to use their own “DirectCU II” cooling solution...
Nvidia’s GTX Titan is THE flagship graphics card to own right now, but at it is marketed at the ultra high end enthusiast audience. Moving down a single notch in the Nvidia hierarchy is the GTX780, a card made slightly more affordable, around the...
The GTX 780 implementation from Asus is a nice looking board capable of very high performance and overclocking. Moreover, the DirectCU II cooler keeps the chipset under 68C (154.4 F) without any noise.All of the above sounds perfect for a gaming rig, the...
Meanwhile ASUS has a heavily overclocked GeForce GTX 780 card in its portfolio which even features a new revision of their DirectCU II cooler. Almost obviously, there is also a non-reference PCB which features a ten phase power design with super alloy...
Last month, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 780 launched with great success. The card uses the same Kepler GK110 GPU we've seen on the GTX Titan, but with fewer shaders. The new GPU and NVIDIA's new Boost 2.0 algorithm allow the card to offer significant...
Ultimately ASUS GTX780-DC2-3GD5 shown excellent results on all points of the tests. Thanks to an ingenious new cooling turned out quite compact: only takes up two expansion slots, while not much longer than the reference card. An interesting feature...
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