Saturday, March 14th 2009
Galaxy Prepares GeForce GTX 260 1792 MB
As NVIDIA partners attempt to cash in on the good sales of GeForce GTX 260, by lining up numerous custom-designed models based on the said GPU, Galaxy has added yet another to its lineup: a GeForce GTX 260 accelerator with twice the amount of memory as its reference design, all 1792 MB of it. Galaxy worked on two areas of this card: cooling and memory. Towards memory, the company chose to use the high-density Samsung K4J10324QD-HJ1A memory chip, that has a capacity of 1 Gb (128 MB). 14 such chips populate the 448-bit GDDR3 memory bus to dole out a total 1792 MB of memory capacity.
Towards cooling, Galaxy used a custom GPU cooler that spans across the length of the card. Its GPU contact block gives out five heatpipes that direct heat to a dense array of alumium fins. Three fans are employed to cool the card. The airflow passively cools the memory, the 4+1 phase VRM area has a heatsink of its own, so does the NVIO2 processor. Expreview put the card through a series of test to bring out its performance increment over the 896 MB GeForce GTX 260. The games World in Conflict and Company of Heroes saw significant increments in average frame-rates.
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Expreview
Towards cooling, Galaxy used a custom GPU cooler that spans across the length of the card. Its GPU contact block gives out five heatpipes that direct heat to a dense array of alumium fins. Three fans are employed to cool the card. The airflow passively cools the memory, the 4+1 phase VRM area has a heatsink of its own, so does the NVIO2 processor. Expreview put the card through a series of test to bring out its performance increment over the 896 MB GeForce GTX 260. The games World in Conflict and Company of Heroes saw significant increments in average frame-rates.
45 Comments on Galaxy Prepares GeForce GTX 260 1792 MB
all hail galaxy, for making a card thats UNIQUE
I think its cus there are very few games that actually need more than 1GB of graphics memory at the moment. I mean I can run GTA IV with everything on max, and still only get the odd pop-in.
This Galaxy 260 has a nice cooler.
Should be awesome in games.:)
1 SSD 5 HDDs
3.9ghz E7300 @ 1.4v
and zotac GTX260 amp2! overclocked even more 680 core 1250 mem
less then 450 ish watts imo, tho havnt tested with meter yet. (at full load)
back on topic,
only thing i don't like about those heat sinks/fans is it just blows the heat back into the case,
thats why i like the zotac cooler (i think its the standard referance design) but anyway just my 0.02
still looks sweet tho!!!!
For a single card provided the price is right might be my next upgrade.