Generally when we receive a reference card, we don’t tend to delve to far into the aesthetics of the card as you’ll find Nvidia partners making their own versions which generally include a custom cooler design and added features that take it away from the reference mockup. We do want to show you how small this card is however and what’s involved.
The card itself features a small PCB with a large plastic shrouding covering the majority of the card which encompasses the fan and heatsink. The card overall looks quite simple but this helps to cut costs down to pass back on to the end-user.
The card features a large single black fan with some subtle artwork around the shrouding but overall the cooling solution is quite open to allow for heat to be exhausted easily.
On the end of the card, tucked away, we find a single PCI-Express 6-pin power connector showing that this card is quite low-powered for the performance it gives. It’s also worth noting that this card does not support Nvidia SLI.
The rear of the card shows a single expansion slot with three display connections. This includes a Mini-HDMI, a dual-link DVI-D connector and a dual-link DVI-I connector and this card does support Nvidia Surround technology for those wanting to use all three monitors.
Looking at the specs of the card straight out of the box, we see by opening GPU-Z that the card comes with the reference clock speeds of 928MHz on the core clock and 1350MHz on the memory clock (5.4GHz Effective). Other specifications include 1GB of GDDR5 memory running on a 128-bit memory interface.
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No fair. You always include photo’s of the packaging so why can’t we see photo’s of the bubble wrap & sellotape? It’s probably more interesting that the card.
great review, thanks, really helpful
take it im the only person who has problems with the card over heating ever 30 seconds
Sounds like an issue with the card being faulty. Is the fan spinning, operating at PWM? Is the heatsink attached properly, enough thermal paste? Does the system shut down after it overheats – could be power leakage which means its shutting down to prevent damage (power leakage causes overheating and shutdown).