Inno3D

Inno3D didn't overclock the highest, has the loudest fan, and isn't the coolest card of the bunch (though it was competitive with other box-shaped HSF solutions). But the one thing that Inno3D did better than everyone else that we had looked at was the way that they attached their heatsink to the board. The HSF doesn't move and makes excellent contact with the GPU.



The sound of the HSF had a higher pitched hair dryer quality to it, though we are still talking about a mid-range card level fan speed. This was the loudest card that we ran, but that speaks well for Geforce 6600 GT cards. On the upside, the heatsink is all copper, as are the ramsinks. They also used 1.6ns GDDR3 on their board, but clocked it at 500MHz. In light of this, a 600MHz memory clock speed should be achievable even though we were unable to push it that high.



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  • Bonesdad - Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - link

    Yes, I too would like to see an update here...have any of the makers attacked the HSF mounting problems?
  • 1q3er5 - Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - link

    can we please get an update on this article with more cards, and replacements of defective cards?

    I'm interested in the gigabyte card
  • Yush - Tuesday, February 8, 2005 - link

    Those temperature results are pretty dodge. Surely no regular computer user would have a caseless computer. Those results are only favourable and only shed light on how cool the card CAN be, and not how hot they actually are in a regular scenario. The results would've been much more useful had the temperature been measured inside a case.
  • Andrewliu6294 - Saturday, January 29, 2005 - link

    i like the albatron best. Exactly how loud is it? like how many decibels?
  • JClimbs - Thursday, January 27, 2005 - link

    Anyone have any information on the Galaxy part? I don't find it in a pricewatch or pricegrabber search at all.
  • Abecedaria - Saturday, January 22, 2005 - link

    Hey there. I noticed that Gigabyte seems to have modified their HSI cooling solution. Has anyone had any experience with this? It looks much better.

    Comments?
    http://www.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-...

    abc
  • levicki - Sunday, January 9, 2005 - link

    Derek, do you read your email at all? I got Prolink 6600 GT card and I would like to hear a suggestion on improving the cooling solution. I can confirm that retail card reaches 95 C at full load and idles at 48 C. That is really bad image for nVidia. They should be informed about vendor's doing poor job on cooling design. I mean, you would expect it to be way better because those cards ain't cheap.
  • levicki - Sunday, January 9, 2005 - link

  • geogecko - Wednesday, January 5, 2005 - link

    Derek. Could you speculate on what thermal compound is used to interface between the HSF and the GPU on the XFX card? I e-mailed them, and they won't tell me what it is?! It would be great if it was paste or tape. I need to be able to remove it, and then later, would like to re-install it. I might be able to overlook not having the component video pod on the XFX card, as long as I get an HDTV that supports DVI.
  • Beatnik - Friday, December 31, 2004 - link


    I thought I would add about the DUAL-DVI issue, in the new NVIDIA drivers, they show that the second DVI can be used for HDTV output. It appears that even the overscan adjustments are there.

    So not having the component "pod" on the XFX card appears to be less of a concern than I thought it might be. It would be nice to hear if someone tried running 1600x1200 + 1600x1200 on the XFX, just to know if the DVI is up to snuff for dual LCD use.

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