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TwinTech and Vvikoo overclocked 9600GT, 5-way roundup

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2008-05-19

For quite some time now NVIDIA has allowed their partners to sell their reference products at overclocked speeds with a custom VGA cooler. Today we take a look at two of such none-reference clocked 9600GT video cards, one from newcomer Vvikoo and one from last year startup, TwinTech. We´ll investigate how the extra clocks make the product stand out compared to 3 other samples we have tested before.

Vvikoo 9600GT 512MB Turbo

Inside the box

Vvikoo 9600GT 512MB Turbo

DVI -> Sub-D VGA adapter

Video out cable

External & internal SPDIF cable

6-pin PCIe to molex power cable converter

Driver CD and quick install quide

PC game: Tomb Raider Anniversary

Specifications

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NVIDIA 65nm G94-A1 core
- core clock: 700MHz
- shader clock: 1750MHz

Samsung 512Mb (8x64Mb) GDDR3 with 256 bit interface
- Memory clock: 1000MHz

active heatpipe and fan cooled, dual slot copper solution

2x Dual Link DVI

HDMI

native HDMI support

DisplayPort

TV-out

Integrated HDTV decoder

2-way SLI ready

PCI-Express 2.0 16x

Dimensions: 23cm x 11cm

Closed-up pictures

Contents of the Vvikoo box look quite interesting. We found SP/DIF cables which are not always included and we got a pc game for free. Another satisfying fact is that Vvikoo put a Zalman Pure Copper (VF1000) heatsink on their video card, we all know this heatsink is performing very well and is a respected product among the enthusiasts.

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On front of the card we found not only two dual-link DVI-I connectors, no Vvikoo also added HDMI connectivity and they even give you a DisplayPort connector! The addition of sideways protection should prevent you from crushing the GPU core when installing the videocard without really having an influence on video card cooling.

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Vvikoo also came up with a custom board which has triple phase GPU power circuitry, just like the TwinTech card we saw on previous page.

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Comment from Massman @ 2008/05/19

Love it, great work Geoff!

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