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Asus HD6970 Direct CU II Review – the ultimate 6970 ?

Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was developed by 4A Games in Ukraine and released in March 2010 for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows.

The game utilizes multi-platform 4A Engine, running on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows. There is some contention regarding whether the engine is based on the pre-release X-Ray engine (as claimed by Sergiy Grygorovych, the founder of GSC Game World, as well as users who have seen the 4A Engine SDK screenshots, citing visual similarities, shared resources, and technical evaluation of the pre-release 4A Engine demo conducted at the request of GSC Game World), or whether the engine is an original development (as claimed by 4A Games and Oles’ Shiskovtsov in particular) who claims it would have been impractical to retrofit the X-ray engine with console support). The PC version includes exclusive features such as DirectX 11 support and has been described as “a love letter to PC gamers” because of the developers’ choice “to make the PC version [especially] phenomenal”.

Metro 2033 is a very taxing game which demands a lot of the hardware involved. We would need to lower image quality settings to get this game perfectly smooth at these settings.

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9 comments

  1. I am sporting a semi after reading the overclocking page (first thing I skipped too as the default clocks of this are stupid).

    Makes that XFX card look really bad.

  2. Very yummy indeed, but the 3 slot cooler is a little extreme. surely they could have done that in a dual slot design. the heatpipes and heatsink arent that big.

  3. that cooler really is insane looking. very similar to MSI’s frozr, which is also great. I dont understand the low core clock speeds. if t his card can hit 1.1ghz with voltage increase then 1ghz should be easy enough. if they sold it as a 1ghz model I bet they would sell tons more. people dont always know how high a card will OC. now we do !

  4. THey always made good boards, but they can be slow getting them out. all the early adopters miss these cards cause they already have other ones.

  5. Thats a fucking kick ass product. 3 slot cooler is really massive, wouldnt fancy trying to fit three of these in a system for 3 way CFx

  6. id rather have their GTX580, but both are pretty class leading designs whatever way you look at it.

    whats next? sapphire with a four slot cooler?

  7. McCoys Salt n Vinegar

    Asus have probably the best engineers in the world, look at their mars and ares cards for instance. we will all never forget em.

  8. I would be more then happy with a card of such calibre running in any of my desktops and I think this card is going to be truly amazing when it comes to staying cool which as we all know opens up lots of over-clocking possibilities

  9. i have bought one 6970 direct Cu 2 and i fails bad
    here is forum with the real temps
    http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=4151379&posted=1#post4151379