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ASUS & MSI GTX 970 pictured

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ASUS is giving the GeForce GTX 970 its ROG Strix treatment. The cooler features a unique fan-speed curve that keeps the fans dead until a temperature threshold is approached, and only gradually spins it up from there on. So, in most non-gaming and light-gaming applications, the card should be completely quiet. The underlying heatsink is a meaty dual-slot variant of DirectCU II. The card ships with a factory-overclock, although the exact clocks are not known. ASUS plans to launch the card on the 19th.

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Looks really sexy.

 

 

Here's the MSI 970

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Fuck ASUS, EVGA all the way

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To be honest, I prefer the look of the Direct CU II Cooler... It looks alright, but I prefer the sleeker look of the DCUII. This is a Strix card though so I'm guessing there will also be a sleeker-looking DCUII or DCUIII.

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I bet it's highly overpriced.

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Reference looks the best. Sadly it's not the best cooler :P

 

EDIT: @Above. It's $350 USD in US and $520 AUD in Australia. No, it's not because of Australian taxes. It's about $50 cheaper for us than the gtx 780. Already seen some pics of the price tags on boxes here.

 

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Blatant Twin Frozr ripoffs. It's up to you Gigabyte. Show us the new Windforce!

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my preferences are a ref and probably I slap a cooler on it. Or if there will be a custom block for a non ref model...

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Blatant Twin Frozr ripoffs. It's up to you Gigabyte. Show us the new Windforce!

Having dual fans on a GPU cooler is a ripoff of the Twin Frozr now? Call me ignorant but I thought that was something that has been happening for a while now across all brands.

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I'm digging the TF 5 but I'm really looking forward to the wind force :D

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so when the embargo falls? Friday?

I presume it would be the minute they announce it @ Game 24. Not sure when that is exactly but I am sure there is a specific time for the presentation.

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Having dual fans on a GPU cooler is a ripoff of the Twin Frozr now? Call me ignorant but I thought that was something that has been happening for a while now across all brands.

Look at the fan blade designs too.

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I much prefer the 3x Display Port outputs found on the reference card...

Almost makes me think of selling my 780 for a 980 just for that.

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Looking forward to Asus card, after reading MSI's support issues in my country and EVGA's low distribution which is sad 

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DIrectCu looks better than the MSI one in my opinion :3

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To be honest... I'm not exactly sure what to think... like, they look really meh. 

It's not making me go "holy shit" like when the reference 770/780/Titan came out 

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Very interesting MSI card. The voltage regulators are moving in front of the GPU. I wonder what the reasoning behind that is? However it is odd that the bracket, to avoid sagging has been removed? The two holes for screwing in the bracket is still there as well?

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Ew, strix as the new dcuii design.... stahp asus

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What's up with the 6 pin +8 pin on the 970? I thought the 980 only had 2 x 6 pin power connectors?

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I think it's time to sell my 770 and buy one of those.

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umm, so it will be released 18th september?

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Ew, strix as the new dcuii design.... stahp asus

It's not the new DCU design, it's the strix design. They are marketing the Strix as a more premium card, there will be a regular DCU2/3 design, I'm sure.

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Ew, strix as the new dcuii design.... stahp asus

this is a strix card. the same DCU2 cooler as normal, but a different shroud and a different fan profile. i expect the normal dcu2 to look similar to the 780(ti) one

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It's probably the angle, but is the strix card not as wide as before? On that same note it looks like the Twin Frozr 5 looks wider than Twin Frozr 4. I'm starting to worry that there wont be any non-reference cards that will fit in the ncase steam machine when it comes out. I guess we'll just have to wait for the formal announcement of these along with specs.

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