GeForce GTX 580 Monster from Asus

[RavenXXX2]

Beast

After showing off a monstrous DirectCu II cooled Radeon HD 6970 at CES, ASUS released pictures of another card which probably couldn't make it to Vegas. The GeForce GTX 580 DirectCu II from ASUS is just as beastly as its Radeon cousin. It uses a completely in-house design, with custom PCB that uses a strong VRM; and a triple-slot cooler which uses copper heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU. The PCB uses an 8-phase vGPU VRM, it draws power from two 8-pin power connectors. The power circuit is also completely localized, meaning that it draws absolutely zero power from the PCI-Express slot. The VRM makes use of high-grade components, including an NEC-made proadlizer to condition power for the GPU.

The DirectCu II cooler uses a large aluminum fin array to which heat is conveyed by five heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU. Two 100 mm fans are in charge of ventilation. The rear panel consists of two DVI, and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI. The card is bound to have factory overclocked speeds, with room for more overclocking. The cooler, though large and with two fans, is tested by the company to be quieter than NVIDIA's reference design cooler. The GeForce GTX 580 is NVIDIA's flagship DirectX 11 GPU. It packs 512 CUDA cores, and connects to 1536 MB of memory over a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/...tcu-ii-with-more-power-and-bigger-cooler.html

 

[Helios1234]

 

[Stanners]

Looks similiar to the Zalman cooler. What temps do stock cooled 580s run at ?

 

[bl4ckdr4g0n]

does look very similar to:

 

[jms198]

Why do they not angle in the fan furthest form the PCI bracket inorder to more more air out of the case. These custom coolers are all very well but the stock HS is so good are they really needed?

 

[R088ieS86]

Out of interest why is it good that it doesn't draw any power through the PCI-E slot?
Is it more likely to have a more stable power draw?

 

[scubes]

monster ......

 

[NathWraith]

We will be getting manyyy of these in

 

[MooMoo444]

We will be getting manyyy of these in

At what sort of pricerange?

 

[Sho]

omfg triple slot card

 

[HazardO]

omfg triple slot card

With 2 SLI connectors. You would need 9 slots of spacing for 3 way SLI, and 11 if you don't want the cards next to each other.

 

[NathWraith]

At what sort of pricerange?

There is no confimed pricing yet but what I am hearing from Asus is around £499 inc VAT.

 

[Andrew Moore]

That looks to be one hell of a card. cant wait to see how it performs

 

[cobhc]

My god, that thing is a beast! That might just be my next card!

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Hang on I though Nvidia no no'ed triple slot retail cards for the 580 cards, sure it was mentioned on anandtech or alike.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Out of interest why is it good that it doesn't draw any power through the PCI-E slot?
Is it more likely to have a more stable power draw?

Really not much at all, for something like a weirdo quad sli system it could be useful, but not massively. End of the day theres very little power draw from the mobo these days yet the 24pin connector can provide a shedload of power, so theres little reason not to use.

As for the cooler, looks decent, still can't for the life of me understand how a cooler like that isn't the STOCK design, the vast majority of cards end up in single card systems, in mobo's where no one will ever plug in another pci-e/pci card of any kind and even if they did have shedloads of space.

Blower fans are pretty much evil, pointless and rubbish for cooling/noise in general.

A cheapo aluminium cooler like that won't cost any more than a tighter design(to fit around pcb components) blower big block of copper cooler, infact likely costs less. RMA's from failed cards would have to be lower if they are running say an average of 50-60c, rather than blower coolers running 70-90c.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Out of interest why is it good that it doesn't draw any power through the PCI-E slot?
Is it more likely to have a more stable power draw?

Really not much at all, for something like a weirdo quad sli system it could be useful, but not massively. End of the day theres very little power draw from the mobo these days yet the 24pin connector can provide a shedload of power, so theres little reason not to use.

As for the cooler, looks decent, still can't for the life of me understand how a cooler like that isn't the STOCK design, the vast majority of cards end up in single card systems, in mobo's where no one will ever plug in another pci-e/pci card of any kind and even if they did have shedloads of space.

Blower fans are pretty much evil, pointless and rubbish for cooling/noise in general.

A cheapo aluminium cooler like that won't cost any more than a tighter design(to fit around pcb components) blower big block of copper cooler, infact likely costs less. RMA's from failed cards would have to be lower if they are running say an average of 50-60c, rather than blower coolers running 70-90c.

Unfortunately these cards always get released much later, and at ridiculous cost, when they should be the default card available on release for the normal cost

 

[straxusii]

The prices of 580s are a joke at the moment, totally uncompetitive

 

[Mr Krugga]

So they want to charge $649 for this card? Madness.

 

[The Asgard]

The prices of 580s are a joke at the moment, totally uncompetitive

Agreed.

So Nvidia are going to sell 1x 580 to every 100x 6970's. On top of that no availability.

I would be prepared to pay a reasonable premium for a 580 over a 6970 but the current pricing is just insane. Nvidia have just lost the plot.