The card has very nice outside design; the central fan has the same color as the rest of the artwork and in center we can find one of the Sparkle logos:



One of the video card sides is designed to look like the front of a race car:



On one side of the fan we can see multiple sticker pieces, each one with a logo on it; the stickers do have a transparent protective film on them, which must be removed before the first use:



We can find on the other lateral of the fan another sticker with the Sparkle website address and some extra ventilation holes on the top of the plastic shroud:



The cooling solution has no less than 5 large heatpipes that help distribute the heat evenly on the heatsink; the plate that is on the GPU has the direct contact technology, meaning that the heatpipes touch directly the GPU HSF; because of this, in the future when we would like to change the thermal compound, we will have to apply much more than with other coolers because some of the compound will go between the pipes:



On the same side, but in the left corner, we can find two 6-pin PCI-Express connectors, which will provide the extra power the board needs when it is functioning:



The central fan is fixed onto a metallic frame and cools properly not only the GPU but also blows air on the memory and VRM:



Here is a lateral view of the cooling system; we can see the heatpipe terminations on the heatsink, but also the fan cable, which is 4-wire and tells us the fan is PWM:



On the back of the PCB, we can see that there are lots of unused holes (since this is a custom cooled design and the PCB is not modified). The only screws that we can find are the ones that are used to fix the heatsink:



The ventilation holes on the left of the PCB are from the original design, now are unused and we can see through them the fins from the new heatsink:



Each screw that fixes the heatsink has a spring on it:



The SLI connector can be also found on the board and we can run up to Quad SLI configurations:



The card has as outputs two DVI connectors and one mini-HDMI: