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Gainward GeForce GT220 1024MB

Budget card for light work

Author: Jouni 'Jipa' Vasama
Published: 04.01.2010
Manufacturer: Gainward
Product Group: Graphics cards
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GT220

 

Gainward GeForce GT220 1024MB Budget card for light work
 

If it wasn't for the PCI-express connector then one could easily think it's an old AGP-card from the last millennium. The front side of the red PCB features a small cooler, some scattered power supply components around the cooler and eight exposed memory chips that make up the one gigabyte of memory. Note how the card has no power connector, this really is a budget card with very reasonable power consumption.

 

Gainward GeForce GT220 1024MB Budget card for light work
 

The backside of the card looks even more abandoned and there really isn't anything else to be seen but three little ICs and the mounting screws for the aluminium cooler.

 

Gainward GeForce GT220 1024MB Budget card for light work
 

With no power connectors to show, there's little to be seen from this end of the card. Anyway note how there's barely any actual heatsink in the cooler.

 

Gainward GeForce GT220 1024MB Budget card for light work
 

The connector array features the common DVI-I, VGA and also a HDMI-connector. Also note how the miniscule cooler manages to actually reserve two slots! To me this seems like a major design flaw as clearly such a low-end chip could be cooled with a single-slot cooler.




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