Asus Radeon HD 7770 DirectCU TOP 1GB Graphics Card Review

Noise is generally the bain of most consumers lives and in the hope of finding the quietest operation, we feel it’s necessary to show you the audio level of components. We use the same components throughout this test and use a sound level meter to record the audio level of the system with a passive graphics card installed. Once we have the level recorded with the passive card, we continue to change the graphics card for the one that we are testing. Due to us having the audio level recorded before installation, it gives us a guide to work with and shows that anything over our initial level is an audio gain.

Acoustics on this card were extremely good with not much difference between idle and load and seeing the card giving fantastic results in comparison to other cards. When looking at the reference card, we see a 6 degrees difference at idle and 10 degrees difference at load, making this one of the quietest cards we’ve ever tested.