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The Asus GTX760 Direct CU II OC ships in a box featuring claw marks top right. The cooler get focus on the front, alongside some specifications listed along the bottom of the box.
The bundle includes a software disc, some converters and literature. We always recommend you grab the latest drivers direct from the Nvidia website. The drivers on the CD may be several revisions out of date.
The Direct CU II cooler is predominately black with red highlighting, which follows the Republic Of Gamers scheme. The dual fans are high grade and feature Asus branding in the centre. The PCB is black which matches the cooler and we can see from the rear that the cooler overhangs the PCB by around an inch.
The ‘Direct Power' plate on the rear of the card is a piece of copper which is connected to GPU voltage. The GPU has to get operating voltage on both planes. The copper acts as a short circuit to avoid shifting voltage around the GPU.
This dual slot card demands power from a single 8 pin PCI connector. This is interesting as the KFA2 EX OC model we reviewed in June ships with an extra 6 pin connector. We will find out if this negatively affects overclocking later in the review.
The GTX760 is SLi capable in 2 and 3 way configurations. ASUS ship the card with little blue protective covers over all the ports.
The card has two dual link DVI connectors, alongside a single HDMI and DisplayPort connector.
The cooler is high grade, with four thick nickel plated heatpipes running into two separate racks of aluminium fins on either side of the core. If you are paying attention you will notice that these are direct touch heatpipes which offer arguably better heat transfer.
An overview of the Asus GTX760 Direct CU II OC. The GK104 core is built on the 28nm manufacturing process. The card has 32 ROPs, 96 TMU’s and 1,152 CUDA cores. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory is connected via a 256 bit memory interface. As we mentioned earlier, the core is overclocked from 980mhz to 1,006mhz which will give it a slight edge over the reference sample.
They are slightly disappointing out of the box figures however. I would have hoped for 1,025mhz at least from an ‘OC' model. We will try overclocking it higher, later in the review.
