Asus GTX760 Direct CU II OC Review

My opinion of Nvidia's GTX760 hasn't changed since it was launched several months ago, it is one of the best performing, value for money graphics cards available today.

The Asus GTX760 Direct CU II OC is sold with a tiny overclock, which is somewhat disappointing.

While every card will exhibit different core headroom, our overclock to 1,148mhz would indicate that Asus had more room to play with. A figure around 1,050mhz was easily possible and would have translated into more substantial real world performance gains. A 3 percent overclock to 1,006mhz is hardly worth talking about.

Asus have adopted the latest Direct CU II cooler, a metal construction with two fans and heatpipes which make direct contact with the GPU core underneath.

In our tests, this cooler delivers class leading results, while emitting only a modicum of noise from the two slow spinning dual fans. Even when we manually set the fans to 100%, the noise levels were bearable. If overclocking is your focus, while maintaining low temperatures, the Direct CU II cooler is a wise choice.

In regards to performance, this solution has no problems powering the latest Direct X 11 titles at 1080p, and in some cases (as our testing highlights) even at 2560×1600 with the eye candy set at a high level. This is impressive for a card that costs less than the HD7950.

While we are still surprised why ASUS didn't push for a more substantial overclock, however it is the price point that really appeals. OverclockersUK are offering it this week at a little over £200 inc vat. You can grab one here.

Pros:

• small size
• fans are quite quiet.
• decent overclocking headroom.
• solid construction.
• superb price point around £200 in UK, inc vat.

Cons:

• ‘Out of the box' overclocked speed is very disappointing.

Kitguru says: If you have £200 to spend on a video card, this should be one of the first choices.

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