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The
card:::...
The
card itself is based on ATi’s reference design, sporting
a red PCB and your basic cooling (with ATi's own graphics
on the cooler). VisionTek branded their version with a sticker
on the fan to let you know who built it. Note how the cooler
is focused on the GPU, and there are no heat sinks or cooling
apparatuses for the BGA RAM chips. Being Samsung DDR3, 1GHz
chips, they should hold up without any extra effort being
made to keep them cool…
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The
card sports a red PCB, and ATi's standard cooling
solution
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On
the back of the card, we see, well, nothing special. There
are some RAM chips and ATI's own Rage Theater chip to handle
all of the VIVO functions. No heat spreaders, RAM sinks
or extras. But, when you see the performance charts, you
surely won't knock them for sticking to the reference design.
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Here
we see the GDDR3 and ATi's Rage Theater chips
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The
I/O panel sports the standard DVI, VGA and S-Video outputs
that you find on most modern graphics cards. Being the owner
of a high-end CRT monitor, I am thrilled that they kept
the VGA connector rather than going to a dual DVI out as
some companies have. This way, there are no adapters involved
for anyone, just plug in your monitor/TV and get busy.
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Your
standard I/O panel with three types of output connectors
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Now
that we have had a look around the packaging and the physical
build of the card, lets grab the white papers form VisionTek’s
site and look at the specs.
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