A Closer Look

The cooler's design is fairly simple. A copper baseplate transfers heat to an outer shell which is made from cheaper and lighter material. This makes the cooler a cost effective, yet capable solution. As you can see the four memory chips are cooled as well with small white thermal pads sitting between memory and cooler.


Instead of eight chips, NVIDIA cut down the board design to use only four memory chips on a 128-bit bus. This makes the board design a whole lot easier and also allows the use of 512 Mbit GDDR3 chips. On the other hand the limited bus width may limit performance in situations where a lot of memory bandwidth is required.


The board uses GDDR3 memory chips from Samsung (K4J52324QE-BJ1A) which are rated at 1.0 ns (= 1000 MHz).


The GPU used is the NVIDIA G84, revision A2. This chip was made in week 08 2007.