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Palit GTX 560 Sonic Platinum: the card
The card shows a very clean and compact design. The red PCB has a length of only 18.8 cm: this ensures that the card has a very small overall size and can be easily mounted in rather compact cabinet.
The Palit GTX 560 Sonic Platinum shows a cooling system with central fan; as we can see from the next pictures the heat sink is covered by a black plastic protection that has aesthetic features but also conveying air. The rear of the PCB does not show if not for the special component arrangement which is very simple and orderly. By removing the plastic housing to which the fan is anchored in, we note that the cooling system is composed of thick plates of aluminum crossed by two pure 0.8mm copper heat pipes that transmit heat from the GF114 chip to the cooling system.
Removing the heatsink we see at the center the graphics chip, protected by an IHS, as Nvidia as has accustomed us, which is labeled GF114-325-A1. The term A1 indicates that the chip belongs to the first (and so far only) version produced.
The GPU is surrounded by Samsung memory chip products, which bear the initials K4G10325FE HC04 (http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=759&partnum=K4G10325FE), in our case there are 8 128MB memory modules.
The power circuitry is located on the right area of the GPU, you can see the 5 phases for the GPU and VRAM power. The voltage regulator, on the other hand, is on the opposite side of the PCB and provides a voltage of 1.000 V that can be brought, by software means, up to 1.087v.
Just to the right of the power circuitry there is a connector for the PWM fan and two 6pin + 6pin power connectors positioned laterally. Close proximity to the GPU is the connector for the SLI, so we can use up to two video cards in parallel in 2-way SLI mode.
As far as we have a DVI, an HDMI and VGA video outputs.
The Sonic Palit GTX 560 Platinum has very high operating frequencies, compared to other competitors.The frequency of the graphics core has been increased to 900MHz and the shaders have been set at 1800 MHz, GDDR5 memory type are set to a factory operating frequency of well 4000 MHz. We can clearly infer these features from the screen performed using the GPU-Z software.
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