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To overclock the Asus HD6970 Direct CU II today, we used SmartDoctor which Asus supply on the software disc. This allows for voltages to be increased.
Smart doctor is an application which can reside in the taskbar, much like MSI’s Afterburner software. At the bottom of the program are sliders which allow for VCore voltage increases and core clock and memory overclocking.
Yes, you didn't read the figures wrong. A 24 percent increase on the core to a mind blowing 1103mhz. Memory increased by just over 11 percent to 1528mhz (6112 mhz effective). Card temperatures only rose by 4c under load which is very impressive.
This huge manual overclock means that the ASUS HD6970 Direct CU II is able to outperform two overclocked GTX460 cards in SLi, the first time ever a HD6970 has achieved this in our labs.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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
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?
Asus have probably the best engineers in the world, look at their mars and ares cards for instance. we will all never forget em.
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
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