We removed the video card heatsink to take a look. While its body is aluminum-made, its base and fins are copper-made, which is great, as you can see on Figure 7. The heatsink touches the memory chips, cooling them down.
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Figure 7: The heatsink uses copper base and fins.
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Figure 8: The video card with its heatsink detached.
This video card has eight GDDR3 256-Mbit 1.2 ns chips from Samsung (K4J55232QG-BC12), making its 256 MB video memory (256 Mbits x 8 = 256 MB). These chips can run up to 1.6 GHz. Since this video card accesses its memory at 1.2 GHz, there is an impressive 33.33% headroom if you wish to overclock it inside its specs.
As the reviewed card featured VIVO (video capture) function, it had a Rage Theater chip, shown on Figure 9.
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Figure 9: ATI Rage Theater, in charge of VIVO function.
On Figure 10 you can see Radeon X1900 GT chip. As you can see, it is based on R580 core.
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Figure 10: Radeon X1900 GT chip.
This video card comes with 2 DVI-to-VGA adaptors, one RCA (composite video) cable, one component video adaptor, one VIVO cable, one S-Video cable and one PCI Express auxiliary power adaptor.
