Cooling and Noise

Our experience with the reference GTX 650 Ti put the cards temperatures, after running through Furmark, right in the middle of all of our HD 7770’s. With the Asus card having what can only be described as extreme cooling with their DirectCU II being almost twice the length of the reference card, I was expecting good performance and I wasn’t disappointed. With a tempature of 49 degree’s, this is the second coolest card we have tested, only to the much lower TDP of the HD 7750. Asus focused on the cooling and it shows in its performance.

As for noise, two fans do make more noise than one fan. Idle noise was a bit higher than the reference card, but still what most would consider silent when placed in an enclosed case. During testing, the noise level never went up, the DirectCU II cooling kept things so cool that turning up the fan speed was never needed.