To round off the port cluster, there’s also a TV-out DIN connector. However, we decided to put this to the test with our 30” Dell 3007WFP and found that, in actual fact, both of the ports are dual-link capable and were happy running the Dell at its native resolution of 2560x1600. There are two DVI ports on the rear port cluster – curiously, Asus’ site says that one is dual-link capable, while the second only supports resolutions up to 1920x1200 (digital) or 2048x1536 (analogue). The card is considerably smaller than its direct competition at just 175mm long – 50mm smaller than the Sapphire HD 2600 XT GDDR4 we’re pitting it against here.
This is a case of Asus reducing the cost of production with cheaper capacitors but fear not though, as they’re good quality capacitors. The heatsink itself is made of aluminium and has been anodised gold for effect.Īsus has dyed the PCB blue and, instead of using 100 percent solid aluminium capped capacitors, half the capacitors are electrolytic. The cooler bears resemblance to some of Zalman’s VF-series graphics card cooling solutions and the cooler’s 70mm fan is at least as quiet as what we’ve seen from Zalman, too. Despite the fact it’s a standard-clocked card, Asus has decided to implement its own cooling design onto the EN8600GT – this takes up two slots. The Asus GeForce 8600 GT we’ve got here is a standard-clocked version, but there is a new overclocked version that comes with OC Gear – the company’s real-time overclocking device.
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