A Closer Look

The nice artwork can be also found on the top of the video card:



In the central part of the heatsink shroud, we can also see a thin red plastic line, which fits perfectly with the rest of the design:



The blower that gets inside the board cold air to cool the heatsinks is also colored red and has attached on it a black sticker with the XFX logo:



The top surface with the artwork is fully covered with a transparent plastic film, to avoid scratches:



On the boards’ lateral, we can see two orifices with red frames, a design preserved from the ATI RADEON OEM cards; these are the intake vents for the blower, which help cooling better the VRM. Here we can also see the 6-pin PCI-Express power connector:



On the other lateral, we can see some more ventilation orifices, which help exhaust hot air in excess along with the embossed ATI RADEON logo:



The back of the PCB has a black matte look; in the center we can see the aluminium heatsink plate which distributes the forces evenly on the printed circuit board, under the GPU:



The memory modules have the H5GQ1H24AFR code name and are made by Hynix. The chips are rated 1.25GHz (5GHz QDR) at 1.5V and we can find them set up in a 8x128MB pattern (4 on top and 4 on the bottom):



On the back of the PCB, we can see more clearly the CrossfireX header:



Also on the back of the PCB, a sticker can be found which tells us which are some of the boards’ interfaces , onboard memory quantity and GPU speed; here we can also see the serial number of the card:



The board backplate does have a pair of DVI connectors, along with a single HDMI and a DisplayPort connector: