14 DAY TRIAL // The word fan can be a tricky homonym, but it seems that its technical meaning is what will draw the attention of many an IT user once word spreads about the newest video card made by Gigabyte.
The current IT industry, at least the consumer-oriented part, is, at the moment, paying quite a bit of attention to the Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Fusion processors.
These units have been running rampant across the worldwide market thanks to the fact that, besides high processing capabilities, they also boast integrated graphics.
AMD definitely wins the graphics side of things, as the Llano A-Series have mainstream-level Radeon HD 6000, DirectX 11 GPUs.
It is for this reason that low-end graphics cards have their days numbered and even mid-range ones won't be doing too well, marketing-wise, for long.
Still, graphics cards for the upper mainstream and high-end markets will definitely go on selling and scoring benchmark records.
In this particular instance, Gigabyte created a new version of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti Super Overclock, this being the second revision of the GV-N560SO-1GI-950 card, one whose main difference from its predecessor is the large pair of fans.
It has the GPU working at a clock speed of 950 MHz, while the shaders and 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are clocked at 1,900 MHz and 4,580 MHz, respectively.
To cope with these tweaks, Gigabyte implemented the Ultra Durable VGA+ design, which involves Japanese solid capacitors, a 2oz copper PCB, metal Chokes, Ferrite core and a Proadlizer capacitor, plus low RDS MOSFET.
Other specifications include 384 CUDA cores, a 256-bit memory interface and three video ports (dual-DVI and HDMI). The price wasn't specifically mentioned, but it should be around the same 230 Euro as the first revision GV-N560SO-1GI-950.