ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

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ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by Olaf van der Spek » Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:27 am

and can comfortably render even higher resolutions if you knock the down the image quality settings a few rungs.
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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by CA_Steve » Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:29 pm

It's sad that a great cooling solution was nerfed by the choice of lesser performing fans.

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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by Blista » Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:32 pm

I was going to switch my Asus 6850 DC for one of these but this review confirmed my reservations about the cooler. :(

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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by Olaf van der Spek » Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:02 am

CA_Steve wrote:It's sad that a great cooling solution was nerfed by the choice of lesser performing fans.
Certainly. Do all dual-slot DC2 HSFs have this problem?

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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by rpsgc » Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:33 am

Can you get your hands on a GTX 660Ti / GTX 670 DirectCU II? They also have a dual-slot cooler.

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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by CA_Steve » Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:38 am

Their implementation for the GTX 660 Ti and 670 is great for noise and Pd is in the same ballpark.

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Re: ASUS Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

Post by ThermaCal » Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:26 pm

Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Do all dual-slot DC2 HSFs have this problem?[/quote wrote:
I was wondering the same and it seems likely as there is only so much space available. They seem to have chosen a thinner fan over a thinner heatsink.

Looking at the images on Asus' website as well as Newegg it seems all of their 7870, 7850, 660Ti and 660 variations share the same cooler.

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