News - ASUS goes for the GTX 550 Ti speed-jugular

[HEXUS]

A little extra something to keep the competition at bay.

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[scaryjim]

In the company's view, this provides up to a 20 per cent advantage against reference cooling when running at full-pelt.

Given that Hexus has so far covered boards from Gigabyte, MSI, FKA2, and now ASUS, and all of them use custom cooling solutions, coupled to the fact that Hexus weren't seeded with a reference card for launch anyway and had to review a partner-provided custom card, I'm starting to think that perhaps there isn't actually a reference design for this card...