Card Layout and Photos

Asus’s new Strix series of cards shares a lot with their other cards including DirectCU II cooling but with new fans, fan shrouds, and simple tribal like artwork on the cards. Strix cards are overclocked cards that also support Asus’s 0bd Fan Tech that turns the fans off when they aren’t needed to keep things quiet. Asus stuck with the same red and black theme that has always done well for them with the GTX 750 Ti Strix. The card itself doesn’t have any power connections or SLI bridge connections so there are a few less photos than normal but that is simply because there is less to cover. The fan shroud on the 750 Ti Strix has an interesting octagon shape around the fans where normally we would see circles, I’m curious how that will effect fan noise, but I will find that out in my testing.

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Looking around the heatsink in the photos below we can get a much better idea of how Asus’s Strix cooling works. Up top we can see two heatpipes that pull the heat from the GPU out to under each of the fans. The heatsink has an interesting mushroom design that should also help the heat transfer from the GPU area out onto the fins under the two fans. This design is also completely open, so the hot air coming off of the card will blow out the top, bottom, and both sides. At the end of the card we can see how the heatsink actually extends past the cards PCB. With the right side fan blowing down right in that area that will be the most efficient part of the card, there should be very little resistance for the airflow.

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Even though the cooling design for the 750 Ti Strix doesn’t really blow air out of the back PCI slot I still love the huge openings for ventilation Asus put here. There is hardly any material in between each opening. For connections you get a single DVI, full sized DisplayPort, and full sized HDMI. This should cover almost anything you will need unless you need two DVI’s, if so you will need to invest in an HDMI to DVI cable.

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On the flip side of the card, we can get a much better look at the all black PCB. This also helps you see just how much longer than heatsink is than the actual card.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #35733 06 Oct 2014 14:25
Now that the main Maxwell launch is out of the way I spend a little time with a more budget friendly Maxwell card, the GTX 750 Ti Strix from Asus.

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