Expreview has got hold of details and imagery of an iChill 9800GT, which Inno3D are claiming to be the fastest 9800GT around, as a counter to AMD's recently released HD 4770. Although the core clock of 670 MHz is no faster than many factory overclocked 9800GTs from other manufacturer's, it is the memory where Inno3D have made the biggest advance. The iChill 9800GT's memory is clocked in at 2,200 MHz, an increase of 400 MHz or 22% over NVIDIA's reference clocks. Not only that but with the card making use of 0.8 ns DDR3, the memory is theoretically capable of being clocked at 2,500 MHz, leaving much overclocking headroom and the possiblilty of a 700 MHz or 39% increase above stock 9800GT memory clocks.Memory aside, the card features the usual 112 shader processors with 512 MB of DDR3 on a 256-bit bus, and supports CUDA, DirectX 10, SM4.0, PhysX and PureVideo HD. Inno3D have opted to use the slightly older 65nm G92 core, which means that this card still requires a 6-pin PCI-E power connector.
The cooler as usual with Inno3D's iChill range is nothing to be sniffed at either, it comes with a dual heatpipe FreezerX DHT HP2-858 cooler featuring Direct Heatpipe Touch technology and the fan is said to ensure low-noise working environment as well as delivering adequate airflow.
The iChill 9800GT comes with a 3 year warranty, but we have yet to hear about availability or pricing.