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Inno3D GeForce 6800 The Card Inno3D has stuck with the basic reference card design with their version of the 6800. Our card below is of the 128mb variety. An oversized heatsink covers both the memory and core of the face of the card. Air is channeled in through the center of the heatsink and then over and threw the fins that are responsible for cooling the memory. You can see Nalu the NVidia mermaid also graces the outer cover of the cooler.
Power is obtained via a single four-pin Molex connector on the end of the card. Below you can also find a closer picture of the convection fins over the cards memory. On the opposite end of the card is a standard VGA port, DVI port and a S-Video port.
All the card's memory is on the face of the PCB leaving only the mounting plate on the back.
Removing the cooler's top cover we find the fan which is powered off the card itself and a tight pattern of aluminum convection fins over the GPU. I have to say this is a pretty clean look.
Removing the rest of the cooler wasn't exactly an easy task. As you can see from the parts below, the cooler is a bit more complicated than just a couple of push pins.
TIM pads were used as the interface material between the heatsink and the memory while the GPU used silicone paste. I can tell you that Inno3D wasn't shy or skimpy with the goo either. Below you can see the GeForce 6800 core and one of the Hynix memory chips Inno3D went with. The core is clocked at a reference design speed of 325MHz while the memory is running at 700MHz DDR. These Hynix chips have graced many a VGA card over the past year or so. The Hynix chips we found here, were rated at 2.2ns (450MHz) so I'm expecting we are going to get some good overclocking results.
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