The Card

The Arctic Cooling Twin Turbo covers the whole front of the card with its two fans. Due to the cooler design the card will need three slots when installed in your system.


The card has one DVI port and one HDMI port. This is quite an interesting output combination and underlines the potential media PC uses of this card. Should you need a second DVI output you can buy a HDMI to DVI adapter (not included).
For HDMI Audio, NVIDIA requires you to feed an external audio source, for example from your motherboard's on-board audio, to the card via SPDIF cable (also included). AMD on the other hand has integrated a sound device inside their GPUs which is the easier solution for most users.


This little jumper controls the dual BIOS feature of the Galaxy GTS 250. Galaxy has put two independent BIOS chips on their card, so you can recover the card easily in case a BIOS flash goes wrong. It is safe to switch the jumper while the system is running, but the BIOS will only be reloaded on a system restart (flashing is redirected immediately).



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