14 DAY TRIAL // Just a few days have passed since Yeston introduced to the world a custom-designed GTX 570 that featured 2.5GB of memory together with a tri-slot cooler to form a monstrous video card, and today the company has just let loose another impressive graphics solution, a custom-cooled 2GB-packing GTX 550 Ti.
Getting past the fact that 2GB of video buffer on a mainstream graphics card like the GTX 550 Ti is simply overkill, Yeston's creation will surely turn a few heads its way thanks to the massive Arctic Cooling-designed heatsink used.
This should prove to be more than enough for the GTX 550 Ti and should allow for some impressive overclocks to be reached, although I would most definitely liked to see some additional heatsinks installed for cooling the memory chips and the VRM.
Speaking of which, for the GTX550Ti-2048GD5 Yeston decided to go with a 6+1 phase power design, six phases go to the GPU while the seventh is for the memory, that are paired together with Nec/Tokin decoupling capacitors and a uP6218AM power control chip.
In addition, the Chinese manufacturer has also added voltage measurement points for the GPU and DRAM as well as some LED light that indicate the power used by the card.
The rest of the PCB layout is pretty standard, except for the fact that Yeston has to install some of the Hynix memory chips on the backside of the PCB.
As for the AC cooling system, this uses four thick copper heatpipes to draw the heat away from the core and into an aluminum radiator that is chilled by two 90mm fans.
Considering all the modifications that Yeston brought to the standard GTX 550 Ti design, the 960MHz/1050MHz GPU and memory clock are slightly disappointing, although I am sure that the core can be easily overclocked past the 1GHz mark.
No details regarding pricing were disclosed, but it's pretty safe to assume that availability will be limited to a few Asian countries. (via Expreview)
