Inside the box

The video card from AXLE comes in a little cardboard box, with a nice box art in the front; here we can see that the board features solid state capacitors which maximize its durability; there is a big sticker under the AXLE logo with the Arctic Cooling logo, which tells us that the cooling system is not proprietary, it is built by AC; also on the frontal part we can see that this video card is from the GeForce 200 series, does have 512MB VRam DDR2, 64bit :



On the back of the box, we can see that with the help of this board we can obtain nice graphics, we can run high quality HD video and enjoy fully the Windows 7 Aero experience:



On the right part, we can see the key product features, the minimum system requirements and the stuff included in the box. I might add that this board does not support Physx but the features are written for all GeForce 200 series :



Besides the board, inside the box we can find a yellow paper with special notes regarding the installation, a little user manual with the AXLE theme and a CD with drivers :



The board is carefully protected in an anti-static bag :



The card is little, it can be compared in size with the older low profile ATI RADEON HD 4550; the D-SUB connector can be disconnected from the card and with the help of a low profile bracket, which is not included in the package, we can install this video card in little sized cases; the fan that cools the heatsink is very nicely colored in yellow and on top of it we can find the AXLE logo :



On both laterals of the heatsink made by Arctic Cooling, hot air is expelled:



The fan is connected to the PCB with only 2 wires :



Here is a close-u of the custom cooling; we can see that the model of the heatsink AXLE chose for this video card is L4 :



On the back of the board, we can see a sticker with the video card serial number, its code name and 2 memory chips on the left, made by Quimonda :



Here is a close-up to see what memory chips this card uses :



Besides the D-SUB, we can see a HDMI and DVI connector, for output :