A Closer Look

VVIKOO is using the Zalman VF1000 cooler, which we reviewed here. It does a great job at keeping the card cool. The metal plate you see in the third picture is used to stabilize the cooler on the card. Normally the whole upper cooler construction is held in place only by the four heatpipes and can bend fairly easily. With the plate added it is fixed to the card very well and can stand quite some abuse I would say.


This card is compatible with SLI and can be paired with any other 8800 GT card. Above picture also shows the white connector where you feed the audio input from the motherboard for use with HDMI+Audio.


The power connector on the back is required to supply power to the card. It is also required when running in PCI-E 2.0 mode, which would be able to supply all power over the bus.


Like on all current NVIDIA cards, GDDR3 is used. The Samsung chips carry the model number K4J52324QE-BJ1A. Please note that these are the same chips as used on the 8800 GT with 512 MB. VVIKOO has just changed the PCB design to accomodate 16 of the memory chips instead of eight like on the reference design. The rated latency of 1.0 ns hints at memory overclocks of at least 1000 MHz.


As mentioned before, the GPU is the NVIDIA G92 which is made at TSMC in a 65 nm process.