A Closer Look

The cooler is a bells and whistle free basic cooler. It does not use any heatpipes or other expensive things like a copper base plate. Four transparent plastic pads are positioned in the GPU area to make sure that the fragile GPU core does not get crushed during production and handling.


The whole board layout is kept really simple: GPU in the middle, memory around it on the same side.


The board uses eight DDR2 memory chips from Hynix (HY5PS561621A FP-25) which are rated at 2.5 ns.


The GPU used is the NVIDIA G86, revision A2. Below NVIDIA's "A" you see 0650A2 - this means that this GPU was produced in week 50 in 2006. Looks like NVIDIA had their stuff ready for quite some time.