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Installation:::...
With
the full shroud removed things look a little more
traditional. The RAM is as naked as the first lambs
of Spring and the GPU has a fairly standard Aluminium
sink/fan assembly on top. To their credit Prolink
haven't skimped on the thermal grease although it's
your run-of-the-mill silicone based gloop.
Memory
comes in the shape of 128MB of fairly fast 2.5v Hynix
2.8ns chips. I've seen cards tipping up with 2.5ns
modules on them but on the while they don't seem to
be offering much of an overclocking advantage. Some
retailers seem to be claiming 2.2ns memory but they
are mostly reading the speed from the wrong place
in the part number. On the chip below, the speed isn't
the "22" at the end of the second line down,
it's the "28" in the "F-28" part
of the line below that, so if anyone tells you they
offer 2.2ns memory on their cards check for yourself
first.
Okay,
so you like the idea of temperature and fan speed
readouts but you have no window in your case, or it's
under your desk. Well in this situation you can use
the supplied 5.25" front bay housing and the
extended data cable to relocate the LCD display to
the front of your case. Shame they didn't design the
housing so the display could swivel in there too eh?
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Front
LCD Mounting Components
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