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alright so we've got a bit more our X 480 news to do before we start winding down this coverage i assure you we're looking at other content coming up very shortly but we do have more to talk about with the RX 41st and the first item is some of the AIB partner aftermarket models of this reference card this is the one that AMD provided and now asus and sapphire have announced and shown their new models we haven't gotten any information from the other board partners as of yet this coverage is brought to you by origin pc and a new origin chronos gaming PC with the RX 480 is customizable upgradable and ready for VR asus has their Strix are x 480 these tricks are x4 ID is the direct CU 3 cooler the direct CU 3 cooler looks like what's on the screen it's got three fans and it uses a sort of standard heat pipe design with an aluminum heatsink the heat pipe is copper it's 10 millimeters goes into a cold plate and there is of course other heat pipes in there as well that's got an aluminum heatsink attached to it there's an aura RGB effect this is a Seuss's version of RGB LEDs they backlight the faceplate of the card and then there is a back plate on the card as well which she kind of want for structural integrity there's additional support since it is a larger card in addition to this the marketing text for this a csr x480 Strix says the direct CU 3 cooler has triple wing blade 0 DB fan designs with an exclusive asu's auto extreme technology with super alloy power to for premium quality and best reliability so basically it's got a copper and aluminum cooler with some fans on it the next card is the sapphire nitro r x 480 this one is using a dual fan controller rather than 3 it will be closer to this size actually not it may be smaller but i'm not sure just yet because if you look at the back of this the board is actually smaller than the cooler so sapphires is the Nitro design cooler that is a more affordable bracket for sapphire it will be priced at 250 British pounds just based on what overclockers UK has stated but i'm not sure what the US price will be the cooler does have a back plate attached to it and that it's normal again heat pipe design with two fans or the cool things here the fans can be removed pretty easily that is for cleaning purposes to get the dust out it's got a button on the back plate to toggle or switch through the LED lighting modes and finally it has and this is the most important one 8-pin connector rather than the six pin on reference and that eight pin power header now eight pins it's just two extra pins over six and those two pins provide extra grounding that said they are rated for 150 watts where the six pin is rated for 75 watts so that should resolve some the PCIe bus stuff if it siphons more power from the power supply directly and also potentially give extra room for overclocking but we will see how that goes so that's all for this quick roundup of the two cards currently announced as always we'll be following this stuff as it comes out along with a couple of other products we use coming up this week so links in the description below for more information subscribe as always pay channeling the postural video if you want helps out directly I'll see you all next time