A Closer Look
The ASUS GTX 750 Ti OC has the attractive Direct CU II style cooling solution, though as we’ve already mentioned there are no heat pipes hence why it is not marketed as Direct CU II. The two fans used are about 75mm.
The PCB is matte black so brownie points for making an attractive card, although, at this price point I can’t imagine people will be too picky.
The cooler overhangs the PCB by a couple of inches, revealing the monolithic aluminium heatsink used.
The top reveals a very strangely placed power connector. I have no idea what ASUS were thinking, this just means cable management inside your case will get messy because there are never cable management holes by the PCI bracket area of a motherboard. Yet, I am glad to see a PCI power connector for additional power that may help when overclocking (especially if you use Kepler BIOS tweaker to manually raise the power limit of your graphics card beyond the fixed 100%).
The card is a dual slot design and is about 8 and a half inches long so will fit into all ATX cases.
The cooler is mainly open at the bottom meaning it will vent hot air into your case as most non-reference designs do.
The rear I/O has a lot of options, dual DVI, HDMI and VGA. Personally I would have liked to see one of the DVI ports or the VGA port swapped out for a DisplayPort and then a DVI to VGA adapter provided instead.
The only issues with this VGA around OC’ing them lies on the heath sinker for the VRAM. They are cooled by air thereby if you OC’ way too much (like 400 to 700 Mhz) after a little even while GPU lies at 40-50 celsius, you’ll get artifacts.
What it is needed it’s a direct cooling unit for the VRAM aswell.