ASUS GeForce GTX 960 STRIX Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 20.01.15Page:
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ASUS decided to equip the GeForce GTX 960 Strix with a new version of their famous DirectCU II cooler. In case of this graphics card you get four heatpipes,two with six millimeter diameter and two with 8 millimeter diameter all connected to the GPU. Soldered to the heatpipes is the fin stack which is being provided with fresh air via two fans. The fans on the new STRIX series are designed to spin only when GPU temprature reaches 65 degrees, which means that in 2D mode they are completeley off. Also, under low loads the fans do not start to spin. Under high-load the noise level is almost inaudible, subjectively speaking.
The ASUS GTX 960 Strix OC Edition graphics card, or to be precise our sample of it, allowed a maximum stable overclock of 1'488 MHz for the GPU and 2'050 MHz on the memory side. We used Furemark V1.11.0 Geeks3D benchmark with 15 minutes duration and 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme With these clocks we had to feed the GPU with 1.21 Volts and the memory ran at stock voltages.
A closer look at the PCB shows that ASUS equipped this graphics card with a 4+1 phase power design. The GPU gets its current from four phases and one phase is taking care of the memory.
Checking the voltage regulation chip we find a uP1608TK from uPI Semiconductor for the GPU an uP1511P for PLL and an uP1511P controller chip for the memory. There is also an ina3221 current and bus voltage monitoring made by Texas instruments.
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The memory chips on the GTX 960 Strix OC Edition come from Samsung and carry the model number H4G41325FC-HC28. They are specified to run at 1'800 MHz (7'200 MHz effective).
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