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Asus Preparing Gold Edition GTX 980 Matrix & Why Such Cards Don’t Make Much Sense For Most Gamers

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Companies need to start making high end cards like this, but without any sort of cooler for an option. Then you can buy the high overclocking cards for a good price and watercool them like many people often do. Not saying you cant get a high OC on an air cooler though.

That wouldn't be allowed by nvidia. 

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they did do that at one point. I think it was with the 780 DUC2 and the 290/290x DCU2. You had the option of leaving it black or running it with gold/red.

yeah, i remember that now. it's just with everybody wanting a different color scheme, and so many rgb keyboards are out, and even some rgb aio water coolers, i'm waiting for someone to make a black graphics card with rgb lighting.

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Collectible GPUs is a weird thing. Its not like they'll go up in value. It's not like a car, which will go up in value so you hold onto it and not use it. 

 

Its a GPU. 

 

Then again, fringe enthusiasts of any hobby are a weird bunch and will spend money in weird ways. Best to not try and understand their madness. 

Oh no, I completely understand that people will buy this, just like any other limited edition, be it a gold plated waterblock(cough Linus), or an extra salted potato, but from a financial stand point, it makes absolutely no sense to buy anything limited edition that WILL for sure go down in price. And even the waterblock Linus has, I understand. He will have it for years and years, and waterblock performance won't exactly skyrocket. But not for a gpu that will be outdated in 3 years

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Please tell me this is an April fool's joke

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At that price I'd rather have a classified or Galax HOF. 

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thats not gold asus, thats mustard.

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The Anniversary Gold Edition boasts the highest clock speed of them all(Matrix Platinum, Poseidon Platinum, Strix and Strix OC variations) with a 1,317 MHz base clock and 1,431 MHz boost clock using cherry-picked GPUs, the 4GB of memory is kept at the reference 7,010MHz speed.

This GPU is powered by a 14-phase Super Alloy Power VRM that makes use of 10K black-metallic capacitors, 'concrete-core' chokes and hardened MOSFETs. Importantly,

For reference

Stock GTX 980: 1126MHz , 1216MHz Boost

Matrix Platinum GTX 980: 1241 MHz ,1342 MHz Boost

Asus claims that there's 'loads of headroom for experimental performance tuning', and for haters of coil-whine the new Asus card is said to be free from 'distracting whines and buzzes'.

For extreme overclockers Asus provides a memory defroster function and a VBIOS Safe Mode button which resets all frequency and voltage changes.

Asus hasn't yet provided pricing or availability information and it will be produced in limited quantities.

 

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Source:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/82114-asus-unveils-gtx-980-20th-anniversary-gold-edition-gpu/

Product page:

http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GOLD20THGTX980P4GD5/

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April fools?

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April fools?

no

 

While April 1st is clearly a terrible day to launch a new product, we have official confirmation from Asus that its GTX 980 20th Anniversary Gold Edition graphics card is no joke, so read on without hesitation.

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no

What's it the 20th anniversary of?

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This must be an April fools joke like the BFG one. Has anyone checked out the War Thunder April fol's joke, it's great. 

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This must be an April fools joke like the BFG one. Has anyone checked out the War Thunder April fol's joke, it's great. 

Really man did you even read ?

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Safe mode.

 

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Would get one but I think it would look weird in my system, plus I don't wanna sell my 970's :q

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Ooooh pretty... bet its a money grabber however.

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Would get one but I think it would look weird in my system, plus I don't wanna sell my 970's :q

Grats on the guide being on LTT :D

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That has higher clocks than my K|NGP|N. although not huge on gold. 

 

But damn the resell value. 

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That would look beautiful with a Z97-A mobo.

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That has higher clocks than my K|NGP|N. although not huge on gold. 

 

But damn the resell value. 

Yeah, I don't really care for the gold, but holy mother of power delivery. :o

 

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I love ASUS. :D

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Those benchmark results though... 15%, 9.6% more fps over reference, tested on a Rampage IV Extreme at only 1080p... So either Sandy Bridge E or Ivy Bridge E. Lots of cores, but still. I'm surprised that that CPU isn't the bottleneck in this.

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