KFA2 GT 520 Passive 1GB Graphics Card Review

A Closer Look

The card looks a lot different to what we’ve been used to lately, mainly in the fact of it being low-profile and having a passive design that covers the majority of the card.

The card is passively cooled using a very unique heatsink design that covers the whole card and sits over both the GPU and memory chips.

The passive cooler consists of a multitude of black fins of different heights and design with an odd looking spoiler design towards the rear of the card.

Some users may not like the passive design or have the need for changing the cooler to an active one. For consumers wanting to do this, a fan connector is present on the PCB of the card.

As we said earlier, within the packaging is a couple of low-profile adapters as the card gives you the ability to remove the VGA port from the card and just use the other two display outputs in exchange for having a shorter card for HTPC usage.

The card only uses a single slot in your expansion bays and has three different display outputs. This includes the removeable VGA port, HDMI and DVI connectors.

Specs wise, the card has a 810MHz GPU clock, 500MHz memory clock and 1620MHz shader clock and of course being an Nvidia card incorporates the latest CUDA and PhysX technology.