 Since I uploaded my unboxing only yesterday there's been a ton of Demand to do at least a couple benchmarks. Maybe some overclocking on the asus aries So here it is installed in a core i7 test platform. I'm running. Whoops. I'm tripping all over things I'm running six gigs of ram over there I'm running a core i7 980 x 6 core extreme edition processor and the asus aries, so I've got my three graphics card pci express power connectors plugged in two of these are eight pin one of them is a six pin so the other two pins are just hanging off the edge there If you listen you can hear that the fan is actually quite silent Now I would love to use the asus smart doctor software and they'll probably fix this later But you can see right now it comes up with an error that says cannot find asus graphics card So I'm going to be using afterburner so that one detects it properly graphics card asus aries driver version latest catalyst drivers So just to give you some idea of how this card runs sorry my phone's going off there We're going to go ahead and okay, so I'll let you listen to it at at default auto speed So this is with the fan speed at 20% and now I'm going to turn the fan speed up to 100 just to get you give you some idea How high this thing can go? pretty impressive I'll be surprised if you can actually even hear me very well that's right up there with GTX 480 levels of noise production there's a significant amount of airflow coming out of either side of this card very very very significant anyway let's turn that back to auto there we go it ramps right back down so we're going to run 3dmark vantage see how loud it actually gets during the benchmark here and what kind of scores we get out of this particular card and then we're going to overclock it and see how much we can improve it beyond that during the benchmark run this is about what it sounds like the ambient temperatures in my office here are 26.5 and I'm taking that temp from right in front of the graphics part so you can easily compare that sound level to the one that I had before with the card running at auto at idle at the desktop as well as the 100% load it's not not intrusively loud although it is definitely definitely auto and it's not that loud at all but it's not that loud at all and this is at a non overclocked setting okay the benchmarks done so at stock speeds with a 4 GHz core i7 980x CPU actually it's 3.99 something high not quite 4 GHz anyway we get about 30,000 marks in 3dmark so that's the performance preset and let's have a look at what we're seeing in terms of GPU temperatures so GPU 1 peaks at around 67 degrees and my room is running at about let's turn my temp back on give it a minute my room is running a little oh it's running a give it a sec running about the same it's running at about 26 degrees so we see it go as high as about 40 a 40 degree delta up as high as 68 or so here GPU 2 runs quite a bit cooler actually about 10 degrees cooler on GPU 2 what I'm guessing is that this is GPU 1 and this is GPU 2 because you can see the airflow comes out completely unrestricted from this side of the card but over here you've got this PCI back plate blocking it so you don't get as much as much air being vented out that way now in terms of everything else you can see GPU usage is as high as 99% on both and GPU fan speed oh that's interesting it doesn't seem to detect fan speed correctly in afterburner here for some reason because I know it went up higher than that let me see if I can oh yeah no fan speed's just not I can't even adjust it now I just did that a minute ago anyway I'll be back with more overclocking benchmarks thank you for checking out my video blog and I'll be updating you shortly actually oh here I should explain this the the 1.5 GHz is just because of speed step it goes up to 4 GHz as soon as you do anything here the sample there you go