Topics:#gold-2

DirectCU II cards usually come with red stripes across the metal heatsink shroud, however in a bid to provide more freedom and flexibility to users, the latest GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II and upcoming R9 290X DirectCU II both come with two color choices of stripes - red and gold - which can be stuck on by the owners.

ASUS has just launched its GTX 780 Ti DirectCU II graphics card; a custom two-slot cooler with CoolTech fan, DIGI+ VRM, Super Alloy hardware and POSCAPs underneath and a 6% faster boosted core clock speed to 1,020MHz on its 2,880 CUDA cores. It packs 3GB of memory at 7GHz (effective) and features DVI, HDMI and DP outputs. For the full details click the PR button inside!

While we're dedicated to ROG and occasionally TUF news, we wanted to cover the more 'lifestyle', feature-driven ASUS motherboards this one time. ROG is, on the surface, all about performance, overclocking and gaming, we also endear an infatuation with the fantastic modding community who wield ROG kit with awesome effect. In that mindset then, we feel it's worth our ROG fans taking note of the new ASUS motherboard styling: they've gone gold.