A Closer Look

The card needs power delivery through one PCI-E power connector, an adapter cable is included. In addition to that the TEC needs power as well through a Molex power adapter. The included adapter cable does not work for both PCI-E and Molex at the same time, so you have to route an extra power cable for the TEC.


The X1950 Pro uses ATI's new internal CrossFire connector. No longer do you need a chunky external dongle cable. A little bridge PCB, just like NVIDIA's SLI lets you connect two card to increase performance or image quality.


Unlike other high-end cards, GeCube went with an aluminum base instead of copper. This is probably to save weight and cost. A baseplate this big would add quite some weight to the card.


The red and black wires are going into the TEC element and supply the needed voltage for its operation.


In my opinion this is quite a mess of cables, there is sure a better way to get the connections done.


This small area of the PCB contains power supply and management for the TEC element.


The ATI RV570 GPU has a smaller footprint than the high-end chips. It is made in an 80nm process and contains 330 million transistors with support for Shader Model 3.


As memory Samsung 1.2 ns GDDR3 memory with the model number K4J52324QC-BJ12 is used, which should be good for around 833 MHz.


Gecube uses this Fintek F75363 (F75363SG) sensor chip which at this time is not supported by ATITool 0.26. A future version will support temperature monitoring and fan control.
The card has semi-dynamic fan speeds. If you look at the second picture above you see two fans, left one with the ATI sticker, and the right one with the Gecube sticker. The Fintek F75363 SG chip can control the "Gecube" fan, the ATI fan is always running at a fixed speed.