A Closer Look:The card has arrived as bulk, protected inside an anti-static bag:
The top side of the black PCB reveals a black cooler, which is really small and does not have any fancy stickers on it:
The fan inside is red, like the ATI logo and is meant to suck air from the environment and blow it on the passive heatsink inside to cool the GPU along with the memory around it:
When looking from the other side, we can discover that the fan does have only two wires (because of this I could not monitor its exact RPM speed with software applications like GPU-Z) and the special designed heatsink which also covers the RAM, that is designed in such a way to cool better when air goes through its little “spikes”; I have seen that lateral case fans which blow air directly onto the card help a lot (the temperature on the GPU can be reduced with at least 2-3 degrees:
On the back of the PCB, we can see the metal frame that is used to distribute the forces evenly and the rest of the memory chips:
The Samsung K4G10325FE-HC05 memory chips are set to operate at 2000MHz and we can find on the card eight of them:
Crossfire connectors are also present on the card:
The card features one D-SUB, a HDMI and a DVI port: