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how fast can you cool practical design maturity fans not just for computers oops the our ninth fury is becoming a favorable choice for users choosing the red side with appetite for outstanding performance without entering the pricing territory of the fury acts one of the most appealing aspects of the our ninth fury launch is bort partner range as availability is not a concern and each VG hbm GPU is covered with some sort of outstanding cooler the asus r9 fury Strix is on the review table today priced around five hundred seventy dollars us so a $20 premium over competing try X card from sapphire or power color which you can check out in the eye or in the description the Furies Trix comes equipped with the new directs you three cooler design that looks and performs fantastic with silver red and black accents plus the Strix branding all over the place like on the fans and on the backplate with that distinct owl notice the red element surrounding the core this is the GPU for the fire not only does it add the beautiful structures of the backplate but it also strengthens the PCB around the core to eliminate the risk of flex and the long term given how heavy the heatsink is the triple fan design spent the entire heatsink instead of the dual fan on the previous generation and the fans now provide higher static pressure and better air flow at reduced speeds plus they shut off completely when the card is idle for totally silent runtime the aluminum heatsink is massive and dual 10 millimeter heat pipes plus a few smaller ones carry the heat away from the core and add to this awesome appearance but the entire coil design truly shows off the thermal load potential as the Furies tricks at load remained at 70 degrees Celsius this is a good 5 degrees cooler than the Sapphire card all this while operating quieter at load than the Triax card although we did notice some coil whine when frame rates went over 200 buzzing was audible coming from the GPU and would recommend enabling vsync or free sync to eliminate such high FPS that causes this GPU wine and it looks like the large and heavy cool design pays off and the temperature Department and noise the card is just over 12 inches so it's not intended for ITX builds and for those interested in a really compact form factor welcome there's the r9 nano the card requires duel ain't pinned for power with accompanying LEDs to indicate if a proper connection is made when PCI Express cables are plugged in and power consumption is actually lower than the reference GPU not by a lot but it looks like this quality component selection that asus is doing here is paying off on all fronts for the i/o we have the standard triple DisplayPort a single HDMI 1.4 and DVI out now that the fault clocks for the fury Strix is 1,000 megahertz on the course just as on the reference but an overclock mode is available through the GPU tweak utility that boost the core hole this is a pointing only 20 megahertz and the Strix has no problem keeping the core at 1020 megahertz at all time and now with everything out of the way here are the benchmarks so as you saw the core frequencies are only a tiny bit higher than reference with just marginally better performance across the board and/or clocking is limited but we were able to push the core to 1107 megahertz which brings it right below the more expensive fury acts and you gotta wonder if this overclocking limitation is just in place to keep some separation between the fury line cards but the few restricts is a beautiful card with great thermal and acoustic delivery one that offers marginal overclocking but enough to close the gap between the flagship card the r9 Fury currently occupies the price to performance spot that is not filled by anything from the greenside and the Strix additions from a soos deserves the hardware canucks dam could award now it's me tree with hardware canucks thanks for watching we'll see you in the next one