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SuomeksiPalit GeForce 7600GT Sonic
Palit's card comes in a green box with a cyborg-frog and the technical info printed on it. The box is pretty standard sized and shows all the specs needed. Besides the card itself the box contains following items: DVI to VGA adapter, component video output adapter, Toca Race Driver 3, Powerlink DVD 6, a driver CD and a very short installation guide that shows how to click "next"-button during the driver installation. No surprises there.
Palit is pretty basic looking card with black aluminum cooler. Besides the cooler there is not much more than few capacitors covering the red PCB. There are no connectors for the extra power in any of the 7600GTs as the card consumes less than 70 watts, which is the specified power for the PCI-e connection. Connections in the back plate are the same we have been seeing for the last years - DVI, VGA and S-video. Unfortunately Palit has decided to use a combination of one analog VGA-connector and one DVI-connector instead of two DVIs.
The cooler is held in place with a plastic support plate and metal wires and was very easy to remove. As the cards share the same GPU and same amount of memory, the biggest difference in them is the cooler. Palit has decided to use a black-anodized aluminum heatsink with pretty thick fins and a 50 mm fan to cool the chip. The cooler doesn't touch the memory chips so they have no cooling other than the airflow provided by the fan.
Removing the cooler revealed this terrible flood of thermal grease. It's funny to see how hard it is for the manufacturers to use a decent amount of good thermal paste. From the three cards reviewed this time, only Leadtek can be given full 10/10 on this matter. I must say though that even the situation looks pretty bad, Palit was actually the one that atleast had its paste in right viscosity.
With the cooler removed I was also able to check the accurate model of the memory chips. They are 1,2 ns models from Samsung and capable of clock speeds up to 833 MHz (1666 MHz DDR). They are set to run at 1,5 GHz so there should be room for nice overclocking results.
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