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FRONTPAGE ASUS ROG Poseidon Platinum GTX 980 Ti Graphics Card Review

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Have you ever considered purchasing a graphics card with the idea of adding it to your water cooling loop at a later time? Do you shudder at the thought of disassembling a graphics card to to install a water block? The ASUS ROG Poseidon Platinum GTX 980 Ti gives you the best of both worlds with its proprietary DirectCU H2O cooler. The DirectCU H2O cooler combines an effective air cooling solution with a GPU water block all in one package. This gives you the flexibility to use water cooling from the start or add it to your loop whenever you're ready. The NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti GPU is a gaming powerhouse at reference speeds, but ASUS applied a pretty stout factory overclock to increase performance even further. Have we caught your attention? It certainly caught ours, so let's go check it out!
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I just want to make sure I understand this correctly, this card can be run (without water cooling) on air and you use the "gaming" specifications. If you connect it with water cooling, you can use the "OC" specifications. Is it normal with water cooling to water cool the back of a graphics card as well, or is it only the front.
 
You can use the OC Mode just fine using the air cooling. The difference between the two clock speeds is only about 30 MHz or so. Most GPU water blocks only cover the front of the card.
 
What was the significance of labeling one overclock "gaming" and the other "OC". You would think the higher overclock would be the gaming one.
 
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