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you guys may have heard stories about big coolers well for the actual card itself I don't think it gets much crazier than this this is the r-tx 2060 ROG Strix and they've pretty much put a 20 atti sized cooler on something that would be considered a mid-range graphics card I mean this thing right here is bigger than a Radeon 7 which is AMD's best card at the moment but of course the Radeon 7 out performs the r-tx 2060 so what were as OOOs going for when they design this card well today we're gonna be running this thing through all the tests and paces that you would expect from a graphics card review except we're gonna be changing things to make it a gravis card review as you guys all know and love around tech yes city but kicking things straight off with this card you've got a dual v bar switch which changes between quiet mode and also performance mode a little box that comes to defaulted to performance mode which will give you fan speeds of 50 percent and that will allow the card to go up with normalized clock speeds to around 2 gigahertz switching this over to cue mode does drop the fan speeds down roughly 10 percent and also raises the temperatures about 6 degrees over that out of the box and also drops the clock speeds down roughly 30 megahertz overclocking the card will bring you extra performance however in this case when I did lock in a stable overclock it did fail with the auto fan speeds of 50 percent I had to raise them as a 60 percent to get things stable so if you do want to overclock be prepared to manually set in some fan speeds to get a tangible benefit over that of the out-of-the-box settings but speaking of the performance numbers in cue mode P mode and the overclock mode I'll pull up one graph for you guys and then we're gonna forget about quiet mode well we can see it's falling just a slight bit behind the performance mode but the noise differential isn't that big so if you're going to get this card I just recommend leaving it on the default mode out of the box and not really changing anything at all if you're gonna overclock it definitely set the fan speeds to 60 percent the Q mode itself although it is there I'd really only consider turning it on if you really are that sensitive to noise but with that said let's take this monstrous 1.2 75 kilogram card and compare it against other cards in the fray and see how it stacks up so with all the gaming benchmarks finished it does paint a picture of a thousand words but we will go over those thousand words for you guys because it is important to note that this card does carry a premium over your standard r-tx twenty sixty cards and in the US it's about sixty US dollars in Australia it's actually around a hundred and forty ozzie dollars so if anything you are getting a lot better value for money for the r-tx twenty sixty Strix rog in America versus Australia I'd say that 140 AUD premium is starting to push it a little bit if anything I'd like to see that come down in Australia but without aside the 60 USD extra it's actually pretty well justified considering the build quality of this card is phenomenal the out-of-the-box performance settings are really good too coming close to that of a manual overclock on the Galax RTX 2060 and coming quite close to an RT x 2070 though keep in mind I did not overclock the RT X 2070 that was out of the box settings but it still was a little bit ahead if anything I'd like to think of this card as sort of performing like an RT X 26 TT I if that was the way to explain it that seems to be where it's slotting in somewhere in between a standard RT X 2060 and an RT X 27 T they're going through the numbers a little bit more in depth we can see that in Apex legends this card is coming quite close to an RT X 27 T the Radeon 17 when the 1660 ti although it's getting lower numbers you will see a trend running through all these benchmarks and that's what the 1% in point one percent lows are the closest I've ever seen to the average FPS in any of the benchmarks I've done here on the channel and this was a consistent trend that I noticed because I just did these fresh benchmarks yesterday so I was able to analyze them and then stack things up and say hey 1660 Ti isn't doing too bad but moving over now to Far Cry new dawn a new game in the stack here we tested with minimum and also average fps and this title was doing very well for the ROG Strix card coming ahead of that of the galaxy by quite a bit and also coming close to the art x27 t radeon 7n pulling out quite a head may be able to dirt rally true this does look like it's an nvidia favored title CRT x 2070 actually scored a victory over the Radeon seven in this particular title and still coming ahead of the RT X 2060 though the 2060 ROG Strix still coming out of the galaxy X 2060 and then the 1660 ti following that trend of having those very consistent 1% and 0.1% lows and movie go to Crysis 3 you guys loved it when I tested this game recently and honestly I'm gonna keep testing this game I think it's just a staple running over the years and how demanding it actually is and look at the numbers it's following that buck trend that we saw in the first two titles Radeon seven out in front 20 70 then 2060 ROG then a standard 20 60 then a 16 60 TI and then the last game we had up here was strange Brigade where this was looking like it was slightly favored towards AMD then the Nvidia cards but on that note the ROG Strix did perform very well coming close to that when it was overclocked - and r-tx 2070 where the numbers were showing that this title is favored towards AMD graphics cards over Nvidia cards but the ROG Strix is doing very well slightly more towards the RT X 2070 than that of the 1660 compared to other titles so great performance out of this card so there you guys pretty much have it with the ROG Strix RT x 2060 now some other things that they do include on this card is another button besides your V bias which and this is to turn the LEDs on and off instantly you can also use the software to change the RGB to different color schemes I personally like the music and temperature which were special effects though will critique one thing that is I would have liked to have seen more choices in terms of your RGB software in that they only had six choices two of those being these special effects that I mentioned before looking at the inputs and outputs of the rear you get two HDMI and also to DisplayPort outs totaling four display out options which can power four monitors at the same time the card also requires six plus eight pin PCIe connectors and comes in with dimensions of 300 millimetres long by 134 millimeters wide and has a depth of that of a two and a half slot cooler and features 319 mil fans so Zeus have used a custom PCB on this card and it is just like any other ROG Strix product and that is build quality's good over clocks are good temperatures are good noise is good and it does have a premium over your standard MSRP entry-level cards of that same Kalibak and you do get the RGB lighting on the front and rear of the card where the logo on the back plate itself will light up so basically in closing my thoughts with the r-tx 2060 Strix is if you are in the u.s. that $60 USD price tag isn't looking too bad considering how beast of a card this is if you're in Australia the 140 L Z dollar price tag increase over your standard r-tx 2060s is a little bit too much I'd like to see a Zeus drop that if that's some feedback for them then I could definitely recommend it more so than those to the people in the US so to sum things up for you guys the ROG Strix card is an absolute beast it does use slightly more power than its competing r-tx 2060s that come in and MSRP but that's because it is aggressively clocked out of the box I feel like a card like this is definitely suited towards someone who doesn't really want to overclock but wants great performance out of the box and you just pretty much slot it in the build and you're going to be getting a really good gaming experience so they've done a phenomenal job though keep in mind it does use a little bit more power and does cost a bit more than your standard MSRP r-tx 2060s but on that note they've done a good job hope you enjoyed this review if you did and be sure to hit that like button and hopefully I answered all those questions about this card right here if I didn't or you just want some tech yes lovin and be sure to drop a comma in the comment section below and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon he's out for now bye