ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Poseidon Pictured

[btarunr]

ASUS is giving final touches to its flagship GeForce GTX 980 graphics card, the GTX 980 Poseidon (model: POSEIDON-GTX980-P-4GD5). This factory-overclocked card keeps up with the design goals of its predecessor, the GTX 780 Poseidon, in offering an air-cooled graphics card that you can also liquid-cool, by simply plumbing it to your liquid cooling loop, without changing the cooler.

The cooler features a hybrid block base that dissipates heat to both the heat pipes that push it on to the heatsink, and the coolant channel. As a purely air-cooled card, the GTX 980 Poseidon features a meaty aluminium fin-stack heatsink that looks as competent as the GTX 980 Strix. Liquid cooling fittings stick out from its top. The card is factory-overclocked, offering clock speeds of 1178 MHz core, 1279 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory. The card draws power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, display outputs include three DisplayPort 1.2, and one each of HDMI 2.0 and dual-link DVI. The card is expected to launch some time in December.



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[AsRock]

Kinda upset was looking forward to seeing some naked hardware haha ( dam would of been 1st thing in the morning too BAM! ), not liking that shroud at all.

 

[Ciric]

Might be something for first time diy watercoolers, or just people concerned about warrenty, but can't see it selling to others.

Wanna really float my boat Asus? ...give me a €20-€30 discount on reference cards without coolers (pref with only miniDP ports, so you can make it single slot)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

This is a tad silly as most people who run watercooling will remove this cooler anyway hybrid or not.

 

[ZeDestructor]

Might be something for first time diy watercoolers, or just people concerned about warrenty, but can't see it selling to others.

Wanna really float my boat Asus? ...give me a €20-€30 discount on reference cards without coolers (pref with only miniDP ports, so you can make it single slot)

Much like the PNY/Palit/Gainward near-"reference" 970...

It bugs me (more than it should, tbh) that nobody is doing a single-slot compatible card out there aside from PNY. Especially with stuff like EVGA's hydro-copper card.... If you're buying a hydro-copper card, you're already paying a premium for the block.. so what's a few dollars for EVGA to include or the end-user to just seperately buy a pile of miniDP -> DP adapters and a mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter?

/me sighs

 

[Vlada011]

This card is mostly for people who will use example Dual Bay reservoir Maximus 7 Formula and some CPU Block.
Or even if someone install Swiftech H220X + Poseidon card + Maximus 7 Formula and extra 240mm radiator. Fast solution.
But it's funny card came with 100MHz less clock than Zotac AMP and EVGA Classified and have waterblock as advantage.
I doubt someone will use this with these 2 fans only.
But lets say this is nicest Republic of Gamers card.

 

[Animalpak]

Ahh asus we told you we prefer this type of cooling with top notch cards and the GTX 980 will not be the most powerful card of the 900 series.

They do same as the 700 series...

GTX 980 >> Poseidon/Strix

GTX 980 Ti >> Matrix

GTX 970 >> Strix

GTX 960 >> Striker Platinum

 

[GhostRyder]

The only complaint I may have is that its a reference board instead of a special board designed for the heavy hitters. I would have hoped for a custom VRM and even a special bios so we could unlock some serious power for the 980 chip.

 

[Ciric]

Much like the PNY/Palit/Gainward near-"reference" 970...

It bugs me (more than it should, tbh) that nobody is doing a single-slot compatible card out there aside from PNY. Especially with stuff like EVGA's hydro-copper card.... If you're buying a hydro-copper card, you're already paying a premium for the block.. so what's a few dollars for EVGA to include or the end-user to just seperately buy a pile of miniDP -> DP adapters and a mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter?

/me sighs

Indeed, and add to that, that most moderne monitors comes with DP-ports anyway

 

[bogami]

ASUS Poseidon cooler has essentially added a U-shaped tube through the radiator and this has enabled a much lower temperature when cooling with water at the same time open up the spectrum for OC .
Not so nice not so eficient, but it is not necessary to purchase additional block.
And hardly any maderboard will allow anything more than 4 GPU and so mor is not available with processor connections .And for those who want more GAINWARD GPU i suggest that with block covered only one slot with WS ASUS and ASRock - 11- 79, 99- 2011 LGA chipsets you can gein aditional slot free.olso M.2 Card will stell you 4Wey SLI setup on meny boards so check wot it is possible and then criticize.

 

[ZeDestructor]

Indeed, and add to that, that most moderne monitors comes with DP-ports anyway

Hear, hear.

All my monitors besides the one I'm pawning off to my dad have DisplayPorts, and as much as I can, I use them.

Oh, and my laptops too. The Precision has the special place of having both DisplayPort and HDMI, so I can plug it into basically anything very easily.

EDIT:

ASUS Poseidon cooler has essentially added a U-shaped tube through the radiator and this has enabled a much lower temperature when cooling with water at the same time open up the spectrum for OC .
Not so nice not so eficient, but it is not necessary to purchase additional block.
And hardly any maderboard will allow anything more than 4 GPU and so mor is not available with processor connections .And for those who want more GAINWARD GPU i suggest that with block covered only one slot with WS ASUS and ASRock - 11- 79, 99- 2011 LGA chipsets you can gein aditional slot free.olso M.2 Card will stell you 4Wey SLI setup on meny boards so check wot it is possible and then criticize.

I have more than just graphics cards on my board: network card (because I'm looking towards 10/40Gbit), HBA (I mean to dangle lots of HDDs outside my main case), sound card (EAX pls), and then potentially a bunch of development stuff like FPGAs, co-processors and the like. I need the physical ports and the lanes

 

[Animalpak]

The only complaint I may have is that its a reference board instead of a special board designed for the heavy hitters. I would have hoped for a custom VRM and even a special bios so we could unlock some serious power for the 980 chip.

Hey stop this is absolute not a reference board this is a custom high quality vrm section made by asus and i firmly know that are almost 100% coil whine free.

Bad thing of a custom board : Only EK made waterblock for custom GPU boards.

Good thing of a reference board : You can put all aftermarket air coolers on it and you have wider choice of waterblocks.

This is gtx 980 reference board with normal VRM from Nvidia ( coil whine inclusive ).




Now compare

 

[GhostRyder]

Hey stop this is absolute not a reference board this is a custom high quality vrm section made by asus and i firmly know that are almost 100% coil whine free.

Bad thing of a custom board : Only EK made waterblock for custom GPU boards.

Good thing of a reference board : You can put all aftermarket air coolers on it and you have wider choice of waterblocks.

This is gtx 980 reference board with normal VRM from Nvidia ( coil whine inclusive ).




Now compare

I have not looked under the hood yet of it hence why I said "May" if it was a reference board but seeing as its not then that's a good thing. Now all that's missing is if the bios allows for higher voltages to achieve better overclocking.

 

[bogami]

Hear, hear.

All my monitors besides the one I'm pawning off to my dad have DisplayPorts, and as much as I can, I use them.

Oh, and my laptops too. The Precision has the special place of having both DisplayPort and HDMI, so I can plug it into basically anything very easily.

EDIT:



I have more than just graphics cards on my board: network card (because I'm looking towards 10/40Gbit), HBA (I mean to dangle lots of HDDs outside my main case), sound card (EAX pls), and then potentially a bunch of development stuff like FPGAs, co-processors and the like. I need the physical ports and the lanes

and I gave you what motherboards will support this formation. Personally, I bought just to get a space: 2xGPU cards (block on liquide cooleng )and connect them in SLI and there is the room for PCIe SSD REVODRIVE and AUDIO card Creative Titanium HD there's moy PLX processor expansion reached the upper limit. ASUS WS 2011LGA 79, 99 chipset which offers seven free slots in 16x8x16x8x16x8x16 with the help of two PLX chips. but not with posaidon cooling. And the monitor cable has many interfaces to other standards available.G.L.