Monday, August 31st 2009
ASUS Slips-in Glaciator-cooled GTX 260 Accelerator
ASUS is building on its Glaciator Fansink graphics card cooler design, with its newest implementation on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 graphics card. Dubbed Glaciator+ GTX 260 (model: ENGTX260 GL+/HTDI/896MD3), the new card makes use of the Glaciator+ Fansink cooler. The cooler is simpler than its predecessors in having a 5.8 oz copper GPU block from which anodized aluminum fins project radially. A PWM-controlled fan is nested in the center. While the NVIO2 processor gets its own little heatsink, the memory cools off under the fan's air-flow. The 4+1 phase VRM cools passively. The card uses reference NVIDIA clock speeds of 576/1242/999 MHz (core/shader/memory). The 55 nm G200b core provides 216 shader processors, and is wired to 896 MB of GDDR3 memory across a 448-bit interface. ASUS ENGTX260 GL+/HTDI/896MD3 has started selling in the US for $172.99.
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16 Comments on ASUS Slips-in Glaciator-cooled GTX 260 Accelerator
IMO this is still a downgrade even on the 55nm stock cooler. I do like the NVIO sink, looks a bit more professional than the one I made my self. Send me one ASUS I bought your card :p +points on the black cooler color instead of the previous yellow.
IF you want to buy a 260 to drop a waterblock on this is the perfect card, the price should be a little lower than normal so its even better value.
On the other hand, if you want a card to clock like crazy.....get another version, many out there so no need to complain about this one. :shadedshu
Edit:Correct. I own one and it does fine. (820c/1000m)
Or, more likely, they're just being a cheap and had a bunch of two-bracket ends left over, and stuck them on this card.