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welcome back to harbor unbox today we are checking out the asou sir ROG Strix gtx 1660 TI OC edition yeah a classically long a Seuss name there and I think they know what to settle on for these graphics cards they I think they're so amazing that there's no one word that can possibly convey that to you guys so so they pick 30 anyway frustratingly long name aside this thing really is a beast I'm not sure which point a soos just draw the line and say we're not putting an extreme high-end cooler on a budget graphics card but apparently it's not for a GPU that has a $280 US MSRP of course I don't expect this ROG Strix model to come in at the MSRP it was absolutely zero chance that's going to happen the more expensive GTX 1662 our models come in more around 310 dollars u.s. we saw that with the MSI gaming X model and frankly if you can get this behemoth for that price then I would consider it a rather good buy and I say that knowing full well that you can snap up an RT X 2060 for as little as three hundred and fifty dollars because realistically to get something of similar quality you're really looking at having to spend at least three hundred and eighty dollars u.s. anyway at this point I have no idea how much the arrow Strix model is going to sell for as it isn't available at the time of making this video right now you can buy the asou sphenoid sits a single fan model for $280 but their dual fan model which doesn't look that impressive with just their basic dual fan model that costs an eye-watering three hundred and ten dollars u.s. so that makes me a little bit concerned for this Strix model of course graphics card pricing is quite volatile and given how new the 1662 eyes are it's probably going to be another month or so before pricing settles down therefore while I can't properly evaluate the value of a Seuss's mighty ROG Strix gtx 660ti oversea edition I can see how well it performs and that should give you all the info you need to determine if it's a worthwhile purchase or not once it actually goes on sale so with all that out of the way let's take a look at this thing if you're aware of the higher-end Strix graphics cards then this 1660 TI model will look pretty familiar it presents as being basically the same cooler as what we saw on the massive Strix r-tx 2060 however there are some crucial differences which we will see once I take the cooler off but externally it's pretty surprising to see that this model actually features the newer axial tech fans as soos claims these fans are faster and stronger and it's pretty obvious that they will be stronger and you'd be pretty hard pressed to break one of the blades off the card itself measures 301 millimeters long 132 millimeters tall and 50 millimeters wide making it a very long and tall triple slot graphics card that being the case you probably won't be surprised to hear that it weighs in at a rather hefty 1195 grams and that makes it almost 40% heavier than the msi gtx 1660 t8 gaming ex model that we featured in our day 1 coverage around on the back side of the car we find a full length backplate and again this is the same version that we found on some of the previous Strix models so there aren't any thermal pads here and therefore it's not being used as a heat spreader rather it's just a shield for the back side of the PCB removing the cooler we find a soos is using a cut-down version here when compared to what we saw on the RT X 2060 this version isn't cooling the vrm and it features three smaller fin arrays opposed to well two larger arrays there's also just three six millimeter copper heat pipes while the RT X 2060 version featured the six still the GTX 1662 eye is a much smaller GPU and the TDP has been dropped down by 25% to 120 watts so I suspect this cooler will be more than sufficient in fact it could even be borderline overkill the rest of the cut is wrapped in a large heat spreader which covers the GDD r6 memory as well as the vrm and given the GTX 1662 our only sips power a soos has been able to get away with a six phase veeram for the GPU and then a two-phase vrm for the GDD r6 memory then feeding power into the card is a single 8 pin PCIe power then finally around on the i/o panel there's two display ports and two HDMI ports most gtx 1660 TI cards that i've seen only feature a single hdmi port with three display ports so again this is a slightly different configuration from a soos anyway enough going over the card I think it's time to test this thing out as usual with our graphics card reviews the focus is on operating temperatures power consumption and overclocking I'll touch on out-of-the-box performance a little bit but only in a few games there's no need to throughout our entire benchmarks we do this thing first off I wanted to see how hot the Strix model gets out of the box so as we often do I fight up f1 2018 and run it on loop for an hour with an ambient room temperature of 22 degrees the card maxed out just 60 degrees and that's seven degrees cooler than the MSI gaming X model again that we checked out in our day 1 coverage you'll also notice in the f1 2018 footage that the core clock speed hovered around 1935 megahertz and this was the typical operating frequency seen across a number of titles this is also the same frequency that the MSI gaming ex-model operated up as for the GDD i6 memory I measured the peak surface temperature at just 65 degrees using a k-type thermocouple while the vrm power stage is picked at just 52 degrees both of these reported temperatures are exceptionally low so the cooler is doing a good job of directing airflow over the heat spreader ok so a quick look at some gaming benchmarks and this here is why I don't focus too heavily on these gaming benchmarks when evaluating AIB models here we see when testing with shut of the Tomb Raider there's soos and MSI models provided identical performance meanwhile the most extreme variation was seen as Strange Brigade here the asou Strix card was 1 to 2 FPS fastest so not much more to say here really but we will wrap up the testing with forza horizon for the gtx 1662 eye basically matches the r-tx 2060 graphics card that was just for FPS down on these Strix RT X 2060 model overclocking using MSI Afterburner went really well the card accepted plus 130 for the core and plus 1,500 for the memory which was actually the maximum value that the MSI Afterburner utility would allow us to input and then finally I maxed out the power and temp limits this resulted in a typical operating frequency of two thousand and ten megahertz of the core and eighteen hundred and seventy-five megahertz for the memory though afterburner reports the DDR speed as seven thousand five hundred and one megahertz the GPU temperature gain maxed out at just sixty degrees though this time I currently just here the fans over the other fans inside the case it seems like fan speed reporting wasn't working at the time of testing though so I can't give you the exact RPM overall they're a solid overclock and this is the best result I've seen from a gtx 660ti yet oh and just lastly wrapping up the testing I have some quick power consumption numbers though they're just as exciting as becaming benchmarks we just looked at please note for testing I was using our core I 999 hero K system clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 memory and as expected the asou Strix model closely matches what we saw from the MSI gaming X 270 watts for the total system which is great but it's also pretty typical for a GTX 16 60 TI okay so I really do like those suits ROG Strix GTX 1662 IOC Edition not in love with the name but I'll learn to live with it because this is an extremely impressive GTX 1660 TI graphics card it's also and I'm gonna get pulled up for saying this but it's also kind of cool how those of you who don't have money for an extreme high-end graphics card you know an RT X 2080 or god forbid a 2080 ti you can still get your hands on something that looks impressive something that looks really high-end I don't know that sounds shallow hearing it out loud does sound a bit shallow but still for those of you that take pride in your system I think this is pretty neat of course the Strix GTX 1662 I goes beyond just looking impressive in terms of cooling performance it's likely the best GTX 1662 I model available right now that said I must admit I am very very concerned about the price as good as this card is if a soos has to price it above 310 dollars u.s. then it'll be a hard pass from me and then at 310 dollars u.s. which which is the can't retail price for the MSI gaming X model it'll be hard to justify that price given that baseball RTX 2060s can be hard for three hundred and fifty dollars so with a big question mark over the price I really can't in good conscience recommend you race out and buy one of these once they go on sale pricing really is everything for these lower tier cards so make sure you review all your options and frankly I'd be very tempted to look at something like so tacks gaming or MSI's Ventus models for just 280 dollars u.s. I couldn't somewhat justify the mark-up for the RT X 2060 version of the ROG Strix thingamajiggy but for this gtx 1660 TI version yeah it could be a bit of a stretch again don't know the pricing i've probably stressed that enough at this point but it does make reviewing a product very difficult if you don't know what it actually costs but yeah it's it's gonna be north of 300 dollars I think that's pretty safe to say anyway I think it's pretty safe to say I don't have much more to say on this subject at this point I think we've covered this reasonably well and if you think so well you can you can do the thumbs up thing on the video we much appreciate that you can subscribe for more content and if you happen to appreciate the work we do here at our own box then you can support us directly on patreon you will also gain access to a discord chat very cool chatroom over there and monthly live streams we only do two main things and I nearly forgot the second one was be a Tim and I do a monthly live stream at least once a month we get together and do that and it's a whole lot of fun I think for then this month Tim is gonna come here for the first time in a long time so that should be a lot of fun anyway thank you for watching I'm your host Dave see you again next time