A Closer Look

The first part that comes off the disassembling the card is the top fan assembly. It is a plastic part with a single fan, certainly sufficient to cool this card.


Next, we remove the heatsink module which is made up of two heatpipes that connect a copper baseplate to the cooling fins.


The memory chips on the back of the card are cooled by this metal plate.


Another black metal plate cools the memory chips on the front of the card.


The card has two six-pin power connectors, both are required for operation of the card. Further to the right on the picture is the white input for the SPDIF audio to be streamed into the HDMI output.


The GDDR3 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5RS1H23MFR-N2C. With a latency of 0.8 ns, they are specified to run at 1200 MHz.


Palit uses a voltage regulator from OnSemi on their card. Unfortunately this design does not allow software based voltage control (like on the Volterra regulators).


Here you can see the good old G92 GPU. It is made in a 55 nm process using 754M transistors. The G92 has been used on a large number of NVIDIA cards before, including the 8800 GS, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS, 9600 GSO, 9600 GT, 9800 GT, 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+ and 9800 GX2.