ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC Edition Overview
As we take a first look at the card it is essentially going to look like the original version of the dual card. If you are unfamiliar with the Dual series from ASUS it is what I would call their entry-level card design that is made to be compact. So for those wondering, the official dimensions of this card are 227.2 x 123.24 x 49.6 mm. Being only 227.2mm long means that this card should easily fit in many small form factor systems.
ASUS does call this the Dual series because it has two cooling fans. These fans are their axial-tech fans which feature a smaller hub that facilitates longer blades and a barrier ring to increase downward air pressure. On top of that the right fan will actually operate at higher speeds to guarantee SSD heat dissipation.
Looking at the card from the side we can see that we have a large heatsink stack that has multiple heatpipes. On the opposite side (the one that will show if you have a side-panel window) we see an ASUS logo as well as a large GeForce RTX logo. Neither of these will light up and there is actually no lighting on this card. Towards the end of the card we find an 8-pin PCI-Express power connection.
Flipping the card over we have a full-coverage metal backplate that says “GeForce RTX” towards the connection side. Of course the big thing we do find on the back of the card is our M.2 slot. This is an M.2 2280 slot and does feature the ASUS Q-latch, which means you simply turn the latch to lock in your SSD. While the card itself is a PCI-Express 4.0 card, the M.2 slot supports up to PCI-Express 5.0 SSDs as your motherboard sees the card and M.2 slot as two different devices. Of course your motherboard needs to have a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot.
Right below the M.2 slot is a BIOS select switch. By default the card is on the performance BIOS which has 0dB or idle fan stop disabled. This is to ensure that your installed M.2 SSD gets enough cooling even when your GPU is in an idle state. Quiet mode relaxes the fan curves and enables idle fan stop.
Looking at our connection we have the default three DisplayPort and a single HDMI. We can also see that the card itself is slotted as a 2-slot card, but the shroud is slightly over that so be sure to keep that in mind.
