14 DAY TRIAL // By now, end-users will likely be aware that there are quite a few customized versions of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 video board roaming the world. Many of them even have clock speeds of well over 800 MHz, in addition to special cooling mechanisms intended to make up for the extra heat. Now, Onda seems to have decided to join in on the party, though it didn't make any official moves yet. In fact, it was Expreview that managed to get its hands on one of its prototype GTX 460 ES.
The first thing that end-users might notice in the picture that is now roaming the Internet is the special cooling module. Not at all surprisingly, it is a dual-slot model meant to cope with the added heat generated by the as of yet undisclosed clocks. A triple set of copper heatpipes leads the heat away from the GPU and into the fin array, which is kept chilled by not one, but two 80mm fans. This is only a prototype, however, and Expreview suggests that Onda may decide to enlarge the PCB (Printed Circuit Board), because it supposedly had trouble fitting the chosen SMD inductors on it.
Unfortunately, not much is known in the way of specifications. Even though it was made plain that the card would be factory overclocked, the exact speed of the GF104 graphics processing unit is not mentioned in the report. All that is known is that a 1GB of Samsung GDDR5 VRAM is present, as well as VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Expreview intends to test it out, even though Onda supposedly stated that the current iteration will be modified by the time actual availability ramps up.
Unfortunately, as it often happens with leaks and reports, there is no information on when, exactly, the final product will show itself, nor is there any mention of the price it will bear.