Whats so suprising is how thsi is a BRAND new Videocard but it looks like its 5yrs old....WHY do I think this? Look at the heatsink on it....Im so used to these big huge bulky vaccum cleaner heatsinks on VPUS today it amazes me at how small and simple the cooling soultion is on this BRAND NEW CARD.


By the way Im not asking WHY IS IT SO SMALL....Its just an observation.

The thing is, is that this card has a very low clock speed, thus a small cooling system. The higher class cards have extremely high speeds, and require larger fans for cooling.

Exactly, although board partners will probably equip it with a beefier heatsink to give more headroom for overclocking abd overvolting.

Yea i realize that but I havent seen a card in the past two years with anything that small....it just amazed me how very simple it is its a peice of metal with a fan on top.

looks very boring and ordinary, at least ATI uses a Red or Violet PCB for their boards now, Nvidia needs to change the shade of green.

What do you mean you haven't seen anything with cooling this small? Have you seen the ATi 9600Pro? lol

Sapphire 9600 Pro:
http://www.newegg.com/app/Showimage.asp?image=14-102-408-05.jp...408-04.jpg

Shoot, look at that little girl of a cooling system! And the board is completely flat except for 3 capacitors... lol... My ATi looks even more wuss than THAT...

Sincerely,
Lord Coldfire

yea and didnt the 9600 come out almost 2yrs ago? thats my point with everything we've seen latley its werid to see something BRAND NEW with such a small cooling solution.

I cant understand why when making a faster PCI-express slot and then making a slow card to go in it . Where is the advance in that. might as well have stuck with AGP slot if u going to do that

Well, TR said this card was for OEMs. These OEMs are going to be selling boxes to people who'll say "OMG! It's a Pentium!", even though it's only 2.4GHz ;-) Said 2.4GHz Pentium will be a Prescott LGA775 (or are there 2.4GHz LGA775 chips?), Dell won't fsck with Intel by putting an i875 on an LGA775 board, so PCI-E will be the only reasonable graphics interface.

Even so the cards reference anyway, theres tons of ppl who go and buy non 3d intensive computers and they usually go straight for 5200's and one that looks nicer is usually good enuf reason to buy one that costs 2 bucks more...


btw pcb colour....does it matter that nvuidia still makes em in green? i mean they kinda dont 'make' cards anymore just engineering and test samples for referencing and reviewing......

I say blame ppl like ELSA, FLASH, Sparkle and Eagle who make boxes that are damn tacky, look just plain tasteless and all they do is usually stick a new sticker on top of the cooler of their cards...or use one thats cheaper if no-one will notice....i mean it doesnt cost anything for someone with half a brain to design a box cover that isnt all pale pink and light blue....why must they invade this place!!!