Video card PCI Albatron GeForce

nVidia graphical adapters are very popular all over the world. The reference design of such video cards is used by multiple producers for building their own implementations. The 128MB PCI video card Albatron can be a good example of an successful implementation.

The Albatron GeForce 6800 128 MB is positioned as a video card for the PCI-Express x16 interface. The chip clock is 350 MHz; the physical memory clock is 350 MHz; and the efficient memory clock is 700 MHz. The memory clock is higher than the nominal values (the physical clock - 300 MHz and the efficient clock - 600 MHz). The memory bus for the Albatron video card PCI is 256 bit. The card has five top conveyors and twelve pixel conveyors.

A remarkable feature of this video card PCI, which can be noticed at once, is a blue color of textolite. It demonstrates the difference with the reference design, though ASUS GeForce video cards also have a blue color of the PCB.

The video card PCI has two DVI outputs and one S-Video output. There is no support for the VIVO technology, but the card is supplied with a TV-Out that is integrated to the GPU. The card's 128 MB DDR SDRAM memory is eight micro-chips on the PCB. The Albatron video card PCI is implemented Samsung memory chips with the access time 2.8 ns.

It is obvious that the card is made on the base of an etalon design. Actually, the product is unique with its cooling system. The most part of cooling is passed to the radiator on the back side of the card. At the same time, a face radiator is becoming smaller. The heat is transmitted via special tubes. There is a low-boiling liquid, which transfers the heat to the back side of the video card.

The cooling system is an original invention of Albatron. It is based on the cooler Wise-fan with three air-exhausters. One air-exhauster is back-up and it acts only when another one crashes. Therefore, the cooler becomes a complicated device due to the usage of the liquid in heat transmitting tubes.

The cooler has the internal logic, which controls rpms for two working air-exhausters. When one of them is stopped, then backup exhausters come to work. The Wise-Fan is usually enlightened. This is the first model that makes the light visible, when the video card is placed to the system block. The main part of the cooling system is turned upwards. This is a pleasant feature for admirers. The work of the cooling system will be visible via the transparent sides of chassis.

The video card has a big radiator from the back side of the PCB. The radiator can be raised above the surface of the motherboard. This way it can be impossible to install the Albatron GeForce 6800 to some motherboards, which have the northern bridge too close to the PCI-Express slot.

In fact, the Albatron GeForce 6800 128 MB PCI-Express is a very attractive product. It meets requirements by speed in its price range. Additionally, it has a unique and low noise cooling system. The video card has good overclocking abilities and it can have two types of the graphical kernel - either the NV41 or NV42. The NV41 has a lower overclocking potential and you should take it into consideration if you are going to accelerate this video card.