ECS NGT240-512QI-F Video Card Review

ECS NGT240-512QI-F (Cont’d)

The active heatsink that comes with this video card is definitely the highlight from this product. Kudos to ECS for picking a nice cooling solution from Arctic Cooling, based on their Accelero L2 Pro. The cooler, however, doesn’t touch the memory chips, as you can see in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Cooler doesn’t touch the memory chips.

In Figure 5, you can see the video card with the heatsink removed, and we were surprised to see only solid capacitors and ferrite chokes, giving this card a top-notch component quality.

Figure 5: Video card with heatsink removed.

The reviewed card uses four 1 Gbit GDDR5 chips, making its 512 MB video memory. The chips used are K4G10325FE-HC05 parts from Samsung, which support up to 1 GHz (4 GHz QDR) and since on this video card memory is accessed at 850 MHz (3.4 GHz QDR), there is a outstanding margin for you to increase the memory clock rate keeping the chips inside the maximum they support.

Figure 6: Memory chip.

In Figure 7, you can see the accessories that come with the reviewed card: a generic manual and a driver CD.

Figure 7: Accessories.

Before seeing the performance results, let’s recap the main features of this video card.