14 pins of power
KYLIE'S GANG over at HardOCP managed to snag some photos from a forum member who snagged photos from PCinLife who snagged photos from someone we can't quite work out because the whole site is in Chinese.
The bottom line is that there is a truckload of pictures for your perusal
right here.
The card on display is the OEM version of R600, which has a substantially longer PCB and has a massive card retention mechanism. This is designed for safe and stable installation inside system builder machines - the particular configuration in question looks like it was designed for top-end Dell and Apple computers, featuring a pretty snazzy retention module to avoid the card screwing about whilst in transit. It also makes it incredibly annoying to change video cards but hey, at least Apple will get a decent card which is not branded Quadro?
You can see all the pornographic details of the card up close and personal, including the two power connectors (one six pin, one eight pin), the R600 core in its bizarre rotated arrangement, the SLI-bridge-sorry-CrossFire-connector, and mahoosive heatsink that will keep this thing cool inside the demanding environment of an OEM chassis.
Also, neat part is the fact that this board is using DVRM (Digital Voltage Regulation Module) for supplying power to the components on board, rather than analogue multi-phase capacitator arrangement, far more effective solution than it was in the past.
From what we all know, we have all seen the pictures of the R600 in some form or another. But we wonder where is AMD hiding that DVI-to-HDMI dongle, that must be one neat piece of engineering.
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