14 DAY TRIAL // At the beginning of August, Asus has announced that it will soon introduce a graphics card based on AMD's Radeon HD 6770 design, the HD 6770 Silent DirectCU, which was just recently priced by the company.
As most of you already know, the Radeon HD 6770 is nothing more than a re-branded previous generation HD 5770, which has now received support for HD3D by including an HDMI 1.4a video output.
Otherwise, the card sports the same specifications as the Radeon HD 5770, meaning that it includes 800 streaming processors, 40 texturing units, 16 ROP units and a 128-bit memory bus, which is connected to 1GB of GDDR5 memory.
Moving to Asus' version of this graphics card, this is built around the DirectCU custom cooler that occupies two slots inside the system's case and employs four direct contact copper heatpipes to draw the heat away from the graphics core.
This is then driven into a large aluminum heatsink, which exceeds the card's PCB and requires users to carefully measure the space available inside the system's case before trying to fit the HD 6770 DirectCU Silent.
As far as the operating frequencies of the card are concerned, Asus decided to stick with AMD's reference clock speed for the Juniper XT graphics core, while the GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,000MHz, 200MHz lower than the 1,200MHz recommended for the HD 6770.
In addition to the DirectCU cooling system, Asus' creation will also feature the Super Alloy Power technology for its capacitors, chokes and MOSFETs, which the company states it can offer 2.5 times longer lifespan than AMD's reference design.
On the rear bracket, users will find the usual assortment of video outputs that include VGA, DVI and HDMI ports.
The Asus Radeon HD 6770 Silent DirectCU is expected to be released in mid-August and its recommended retail price is set at €129. (via HardwareLuxx)