Asus has unveiled a new video card belonging to the family of Direct-series II: the solution is the HD 6970 card, which joins the HD 6950 and GTX 580 models already available. The new card is based on Cayman XT GPU, 1536 Stream Processors with integrated in-house. The GPU clock frequency of 890 MHz and 2GB of GDDR5 video memory - connected to a 256bit wide bus - at the operating frequency of 5500MHz effective.
The PCB has a design custom circuitry with a power of 9-phase VRM connectors supported by two external PCIe to 8-pin. The cooling system consists of two aluminum radiators topped by two 92mm fans and crossed respectively two and three heatpipes from the base in direct contact with the GPU technology (HDT) The overall dimensions of this solution is 3 slot on the motherboard.
Unfortunately this makes it impossible to install Crossfire configurations on the major mainboard that have only 2 slot PCI Express 16x with standard distance. However, the available space on the front bracket has enabled Asus to include a 4 and 2 video outputs DVI display ports.
The PCB has a design custom circuitry with a power of 9-phase VRM connectors supported by two external PCIe to 8-pin. The cooling system consists of two aluminum radiators topped by two 92mm fans and crossed respectively two and three heatpipes from the base in direct contact with the GPU technology (HDT) The overall dimensions of this solution is 3 slot on the motherboard.
Unfortunately this makes it impossible to install Crossfire configurations on the major mainboard that have only 2 slot PCI Express 16x with standard distance. However, the available space on the front bracket has enabled Asus to include a 4 and 2 video outputs DVI display ports.
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