Up Close & Personal

As we went through the main impressions of the GeForce 7800 GS AGP card, it is time we dig a bit deeper into the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock edition and check out the card a bit more closer in detail. We will start with the front and move slowly to the back. As we mentioned already the EVGA SuperClock edition is built upon the reference design from NVIDIA. Here we go...

The e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock edition features the standard cooling solution designed by NVIDIA. The only minor difference is the EVGA sticker on top of the cooling fan. The fan used on the GS series isn't the same as we saw on the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT and GTX cards, instead NVIDIA opted for a fan with more fins, and thus can push more air and allow better cooling.

We couldn't just leave without some images with the focus on the fan itself. As already mentioned it has a decent amount of fins which add up in the air flow it can generate and on top of that it is UV sensitive. The yellow/green fan will definitly please some case modders out there who are using all kinds of LED's for getting their system that unique look and feel.

The front and back of the card show that this is a typical single slot card. The heatsink clearly shows the small fins who are used to enhance the dimensional surface of the cooling solution. The air flow is draw towards the fan and gets spread over the heatsink towards the outlet.

Upon turning the card we discover a quite impressive backplate which is complete different from what we are used to see on NVIDIA based video cards. Normally a small X-shaped backplate is used to secure the heatsink as a hole. However, on the GeForce 7800 GS we find back a backplate that covers a lot more.

The backplate that connects to the cooling unit on the frontside, serves to protect the card from the screws and as cooling method for the memory chips on the backside of the card. Now that we seen the card a bit more in details we can continue and see what the card consist of. Let's dig a bit deeper into the GeForce 7800 GS...