We should be receiving these cards rather soon actually for review, but photo's of the ASUS Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II emerged.
A custom-design PCB, three slots coole amd mucvh more are the keywords. The PCB itself uses a 10+1+1 ASUS Digi+ VRM that draws power from two 8-pin PCIe power connectors.
This heatsink uses a large aluminum fin-stack heatsink to which heat from the GPU is conveyed by six heat-pipes, which make direct contact with it. The heatsink itself isn't very thick, but what makes the card span across three slots are its two 100 mm fans. The GPU is clocked out of the box at 1000 MHz (vs. 925 MHz reference), and 5.60 GHz/1400 MHz actual memory (vs. 5.50 GHz/1375 MHz actual reference).
