Gainward gtx 260 limited edition 896mb ddr3

Are you an E-Blast Insider? Get Educated. Benjamin F. Verified Owner. Black Edition is unstable, causing full system crash. Pros: Good performance when it works. Did you find this review helpful? Yes No. Karl O. Did you? Connor K. Cons: Wish it was smaller.

Aaron B. My general temperatures never go above 30c stock cooling only Cons: None. And as it stands now the Radeon HD X2 edition is really the card to beat. Where the G92 chip was not really a new chip design but rather a die shrink of the very successful G80 graphics core which introduced the new unified shader technology though with some extra features, the GT is still based on this architecture but is surely a new chip packing a lot more processing power. This is really again a product that has advanced, while we somehow perceived the GeForce 9 series merely the same as before but in a new package and name.

The GT is what we call a big chip and that also means we will have quite big card. And in fact it is really a combination of eight separate bit memory controllers, which means that the GeForce GTX card had one of these disabled to come to a bit memory interface.

The Gainward box comes with some plastic shrink wrap around it. So we had to remove the plastic covering first. This is an extra protection to the package as a whole.

The box itself details very clearly the product that you are buying as well as the main features, that it is a PCI Express 2. This is the standard version, which comes with default clock speed settings and supports the 3-way SLI technology. By the end of last year, the GTX got a smaller and cheaper 55nm chip, and at the same time Nvidia started using the new P design that replaced the older P, which housed the 65nm GT chip.

Initial design featured 14 layers, the current has 10 whereas the new P PCB design will feature only 8 layers. Additionally, the question of whether anyone among average users has ever even heard of Volterra voltage regulator featured on the initial reference PCB, is probably a retorical question. Gainward took up Nvidia on this, and added its own cooling at the same time with Palit. Golden Sample card got new looks, and at the same time the PCB went through some changes.

The fans are mounted on the plastic hood, which is separated from the rest of the cooler. We see that powering both fans is done via the same cable, which is connected to the 4-pin pinhead connector at the end of the PCB. This way they can both be easily controlled, but both spin at same speeds.

Since this is a card with one graphics processor, both fans are placed in a way to equally distribute air over the GT GPU and one heatsink. The memory is located underneath the aluminum block, which is nicely cooled by the fan. The graphics processor runs at MHz, which is 50MHz higher than reference.