Chaintech Desperado RI-91 GeForce2 GTS 64MB

The Card

RI-91 comes in the simplest form you can ever dream of, as Chaintech has followed NVIDIA's reference design in every way. There is no reason not to follow NVIDIA's reference design simply due to the fact that the RI-91 does not implement any extraordinary features and NVIDIA's reference designs are quite good.

The fan/heatsink combo is identical to that of the ASUS V7700. The only difference is that the heatsink is painted black. This cooling combo does a good job of dissipating the GPU heat, and the 1.4-Watt fan is virtually silent. The eight 8MB 7ns memory modules are supplied by Hyundai, and are located on the front of the card. This is the main visual difference between most 64MB cards and 32MB cards. All 32MB cards have half of their memory on the back of the PCB. No cooling has been implemented on the memory chips and it is not really needed here.