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EVGA e-Geforce 8800 GT KO Series Video Card
A Closer Look:
Connectors included on the card are an S-Video output and two dual-link DVI outputs. The EVGA 8800 GT KO video card requires only one PCIe power connector from your internal power supply and it appears that this video card requires a minimum of a 400W (watt) power supply to be able to run it. Inside the box it comes with two DVI-to-VGA adapters, should you need to drop the signal from digital to analog to a VGA connector, an S-Video to component dongle and a power adapter as well.
The EVGA 8800 GT KO comes with an excellent heat sink cooling shroud that is not only to protect the surface components and is very stylishly done with nice graphics, but more importantly keeps this cards memory modules and graphics processor unit (GPU) effectively cool during normal game play with high settings.
You can see in the image above, how the heat sink plate resides just under the protective outer shroud cover-plate. This heat sink plate is in direct contact with the memory modules and GPU mounted to the surface of the card, using spring mounted screws to hold the heat sink plate tightly down onto these surfaces. To help the heat to be transferred quickly and efficiently between the memory and GPU to the heat sink plate, there is a thin layer of heat transfer compound placed onto each of the memory modules and GPU surface. The cooling system draws the air into the cards cooling surfaces using the fan and pushes this air thru a series of cooling channel fins where the fan blows the hot air out of. The video cards SLI extension connector interface is also visible in the image above. Below you can see the acceptable resolution rates table provided by EVGA for their 8800 GT KO video card.
Next we take a look at the test setup we used for the benchmarks run against this card.
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