The 69XX series has been out for a while now and the powerful HD 6970 is no secret. In fact, ASUS has released a few models of the HD 6970, one of which is equipped with a three-slot cooler. Today, we will be looking at ASUS's slightly overclocked reference card. Like all other versions of the card, the ASUS HD 6970 is equipped with the Cayman XT core, which has been given a nice little factory overclock of 10MHz. Not only that, but this little beast will offer you 24 SIMD/1536 streaming processors, 96 texture units, 32 ROPs and 2GB of GDDR5 memory. We've seen some pretty good performance from the 6970's, and I'm hoping to see equally great numbers from the ASUS HD 6970. If nothing else, I'd at least expect to see a pretty great overclock, especially using ASUS's voltage tweak utility.