The Card

Inno3D's GeForce 9600 GT card is packaged in an antistatic bag mother naked.  Just the bare PCB as you can see below.  The overall layout is fairly simple and not crowded in the least.  From the back side we see numerous mounting holes for GPU and memory coolers.  This is no surprise as Inno3D is offering multiple cooling options.  Don't forget to notice the SLI connection post just behind the mounting bracket.

Gold plated outputs ensure a clean signal through the two DVI ports and lone HD ready S-Video out.  The gunmetal anodized bracket is a nice touch against the gold plating from an aesthetic point of view.

High power cards require more than the standard amount of juice that can be drawn from the PCI-E slot.  As such, there is a 6-pin power connector on the rear of the card to feed the hungry 9600 GT's core.  Just behind the rear mounted power plug we also see three black BGA style RAM sinks applied to cool some of the power converters.

Here is a quick shot of one of the Hynix memory modules and the GeForce 9600 GT GPU.  The memory units as we said are Hynix modules rated at 1GHz.  The reference specs on the GeForce 9600 GT cite the GPU and memory speeds to be 650MHz and 900MHz respectively.  The Inno3D iChill card pushes this quite a bit with a factory overclock of running the core at 720MHz and 970MHz (x2 = 1940MHz) on the memory.  Using a high end cooler and better rated memory is a natural choice.  What was surprising given the overclocked nature of this card was no RAM sinks. 

To address something that may be confusing later.  Our test card's retail packaging cites the card's core/memory speed as 720/1940MHz.  Inno3D's website has been updated and now lists the card's core speed at 750MHz.  Makes me wonder if the cards are being retooled a bit to run at an even high core speed.

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - The Card
Pg 3 - Hurricane Cooler
Pg 4 - Testing / STALKER
Pg 5 - UT3 / Crysis
Pg 6 - Image Quality / Overclocking / Conclusion