14 DAY TRIAL // Following Nvidia's launch of the GTX 560 Ti graphics card, all of the company's board partners have announced their solutions based on the GF114 GPU, Yeston also introducing its factory overclocked graphics card designed to use Nvidia's latest core.
Like most of the GF114 solutions released until now, Yeston decided to go with a in-house PCB and cooler design, the final product managing to leave us with a nice impression judging by the pictures provided.
First thing one notices when taking a look at the card is the Accelero Twin Turbo Pro GPU cooler used by the Chinese company in their version of the GTX 560 Ti.
Built by Arctic Cooling, the cooler uses four copper heatpipes to draw the heat away from the GPU and into the full length aluminum heatsink that covers the card, two 92mm fans dispersing it inside the system case.
As far as the PCB goes, Yeston has decided to upgrade Nvidia's regular 3+1 phase VRM to 8+1 phases (8 for the GPU and one for the memory), one of the two 6-pin PCIe power connectors being replaced by an eight pin plug for providing addition power to the card.
Furthermore, on the back of the PCB, the board houses two decoupling capacitors which filter the noise caused by other circuit elements, improving the overclocking capabilities of the GPU.
Also on the PCB's back, Yeston has placed two DIP-switches which can be used to raise the core and memory voltages of the card above their software-imposed limits.
The GF114 core features 384 stream processors, 64 texturing units, 32 ROPs as well as a 256-bit wide memory bus that connects the 1GB of video buffer to the GPU.
Compared to Nvidia's reference GTX 560 Ti, Yeston has raised the operating frequencies, the core now being clocked at 920MHz while the memory runs at 1100MHz (4400MHz effective). (via Expreview)
