PackagingThe GeForce GT 240 video card from Gainward comes in a nice green themed cardboard box; on the frontal part we can see the Gainward logo, the fact that the product is fully compatible with Windows 7, does fully support PhysX and is built with DDR5 memory; here we can also see that the chip is built with the new 40nm technology, it fully supports DirectX 10.1 and PCI-Express 2.0 :
On the back of the box, we can see what this card is good for : gaming, watching HD content and running hardware accelerated applications; here we also get to see the system requirements :
In the box, we can find the video card wrapped in a red bubble plastic bag, to avoid damages to the card and cooling system, a quick installation guide and a CD with the drivers and the Gainward Utility ( Expertool ) :
The manual explains to us very nice with drawings and text how to install the graphics card, step by step and how to install the drivers :
The video card has a very nice red PCB, like we’ve also seen on Palit video cards and on the GPU we can find a large heatsink + fan which has red blades to keep the same theme as the PCB. The fan motor is mounted in a plastic frame which covers all the top of the heatsink, which is also colored in black :
The fan connector has 2 wires and its placed right under the GPU heatsink :
Here is another lateral view of the video card, where we can see how the top plastic part and the bottom heatsink are connected :
The Samsung DDR5 RAM is placed right under the heatsink :
On the back of the video card there are no memory chips but we can find stickers in various places which tell us not to strip them; if they get damaged, the warranty gets void immediately :
As outputs, this card does have HDMI, D-SUB and also DVI :