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3 4

The overview of Galaxy 9800GTX+

The card itself

After removing the heatsink from the graphics card, this is what you should be expecting to see.

Graphics Processor

From Picture 1, you can see the overall area around the graphics processor(middle). Those pinkish stuff are thermal stickers/pads to transfer heat to the heatsink not unlike how the thermal paste work(please refer to Hardware – Motherboard for more info about thermal paste). Meanwhile, under those paddings are VRAM(Video Random Access Memory), physical memory dedicated to the graphics card for its processes. The second picture, however, shows your the power phase configurations. I can only tell you that there is roughly 4 to 6(4+2) power phase in this Galaxy 9800GTX+ due to the fact that it is covered under the copper heatsink.

Picture 3 & 4 are the real thing. The core itself: G92-421-B1. Core 92, revision B1(proving its of 55nm fabrication, A1 to be 65nm). You may have noticed the surface(IHS) of the processor is of mirror finishing, cool huh?

You’ll notice from Picture 2 that they are tube like objects. Those are capacitors, full solid capacitors in fact. You can identify full solid ones with its shiny metallic look. Enthusiasts expect to see longer life span and better performance/stability from solid capacitors. On the most right hand side of the picture, you will see 2 black connectors. Those are 6-pin PCIE connectors, supplying supplementary power to the card due to its high power consumption.

The heatsink

Simple yet efficient: aluminium alloy. From the first look of Picture 1, it should actually give you an impression of being a huge chunk of raw aluminium alloy. Well on the other side there are actually a fan and fins to dissipate heat.

Picture 2 simply shows you the basic specifications of the fan used for the heatsink.