Saturday, March 14th 2009
Galaxy Prepares GeForce GTX 260 1792 MB
As NVIDIA partners attempt to cash in on the good sales of GeForce GTX 260, by lining up numerous custom-designed models based on the said GPU, Galaxy has added yet another to its lineup: a GeForce GTX 260 accelerator with twice the amount of memory as its reference design, all 1792 MB of it. Galaxy worked on two areas of this card: cooling and memory. Towards memory, the company chose to use the high-density Samsung K4J10324QD-HJ1A memory chip, that has a capacity of 1 Gb (128 MB). 14 such chips populate the 448-bit GDDR3 memory bus to dole out a total 1792 MB of memory capacity.
Towards cooling, Galaxy used a custom GPU cooler that spans across the length of the card. Its GPU contact block gives out five heatpipes that direct heat to a dense array of alumium fins. Three fans are employed to cool the card. The airflow passively cools the memory, the 4+1 phase VRM area has a heatsink of its own, so does the NVIO2 processor. Expreview put the card through a series of test to bring out its performance increment over the 896 MB GeForce GTX 260. The games World in Conflict and Company of Heroes saw significant increments in average frame-rates.
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Expreview
Towards cooling, Galaxy used a custom GPU cooler that spans across the length of the card. Its GPU contact block gives out five heatpipes that direct heat to a dense array of alumium fins. Three fans are employed to cool the card. The airflow passively cools the memory, the 4+1 phase VRM area has a heatsink of its own, so does the NVIO2 processor. Expreview put the card through a series of test to bring out its performance increment over the 896 MB GeForce GTX 260. The games World in Conflict and Company of Heroes saw significant increments in average frame-rates.
45 Comments on Galaxy Prepares GeForce GTX 260 1792 MB
nice card, but overkill for my 1680x1050 res
Please, go troll elsewhere. my TV is going to look a hell of a lot better than anything you've got.
edit: oh wait, it actually DOES. i have the 226BW on my lan system, and it looks like arse in comparison. its got poor viewing angles, an overly red image and has strange flickering with certain images.
22"= 1680x1050 = shitty for HD movies. It's either an upscaled 720p image, or a downscaled 1080p image.
24" = 1920x1200 = perfect for HD movies. Plays 1080p at its native resolution.
Better looking games are just an added benefit.That's because your 22" monitor has a Tn-Film panel in it. (all 22" are Tn-Film) Buy a 20" or 24" with either a PVA panel, or an IPS panel of some sort, and your games will look like ass on the TV in comparison. (Provided the same quality settings can be used)
admittedly its off topic now, so can we please get back to discussing this uber card?
Well then, back on topic. lol. I hope more manufacturers release double frame buffer cards. I like not having to worry about running out of video memory. lol.
Trolling the member back: bad.
Aswell as a whole new computer LOL !!
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We will definitly send one to techPowerUp for review once we have the card ready, so please stay tuned ;)