I don’t know what it’s about Austrian accent model Noctua’s brown-and-beige livery that its followers appear to like — the colour combo appears to excite them much more than the admiral efficiency of the followers themselves. But right here we’re with one other official collaboration between Noctua and Asus, ensuing of their actually greatest card but. We received a particular preview of the Asus RTX 4080 Noctua OC Edition at CES, nevertheless it needs to be exhibiting up at retailers beginning at this time.

The huge card is festooned with twin Noctua 120mm followers in that unmistakable brown-on-tan shade scheme (which might most likely look good in those new wood-paneled PC cases that maintain exhibiting up) on high of a custom-made heatsink. This makes it “the quietest graphics card in its class,” in line with Asus, and it rattling nicely needs to be because it stretches throughout 4 PCI slots after which some (“4.3” slots, in line with the spec sheet). The card comes with a {hardware} swap to vary BIOS settings between efficiency and quiet modes. You’ll want a case with 310mm of horizontal clearance to carry it, and the package deal comes with a weight-bearing bracket that doubles as a screwdriver.

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Between that huge cooler and the tweaks Asus has made to the bottom design of the cardboard, you’ll be able to anticipate an additional 120Mhz on the cardboard’s enhance clock (2625 vs. 2505), and a commensurate enhance to the teraflops ranking. For all that, Asus asks $1625 at retail — a whopping $450 over the already-high price of the standard Nvidia RTX 4080. Tom’s Hardware says that the cardboard is formally out there at this time, so verify the same old suspects if you get an opportunity. If historical past is any indication, these playing cards will fly off the cabinets even with a surprisingly inflated value.