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Published: Apr 17, 2009 Author: Niko Lupala Editor: Amber Lupala Provider: Asus Share this article:

Closer look at the card

 
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The back of the card is equipped with one power connector, if you don't have one on your powersupply a adapter is included. The heatsink is quite big as you see on the pictures, the fins are and heatsink overall is very well made so cooling should not be a problem.

 
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This cooler also has heatpipes connected from the core to the cooler part of the heatsink itself, the heatpipes does a very good job in transfering the heat. With this card you get two DVI connectors and a S-video connector. 

Testing: 
Intel QX6700 CPU
MSI X48 Motherboard
Corsair Twinx3x2048-1600 DDR3
Gskill 64GB SSD HDD
Coolermaster M700 PSU

ATI Catalyst 9,4 Drivers

We used the following software for testing, Crysis Warhead, 3dmark Vantage. Power measuring was done with a Watt meter connected between the power cable and power plugin in the wall. We are comparing the card vs Asus 4850 TOP and vs the Asus 4870 TOP.

3dmark Vantage:

 In our first 3dmark Vantage test we set our settings for a 1440*900 resolution with extreme settings. Even with a lower clock on both ram and gpu the Matrix card is able to keep up with the TOP card that is the overclocked 4850 card from Asus.