Specifications:

Core: R480
Memory Size: 256 MB (GDDR3)
Memory Bus Width: 256-bit
Active Pipeline: 12
Vertex Engines: 6
Memory Bandwidth: 32 GB/s
Fill rate: 6000 MTexel/s
Transistors: 160 M

Default GPU Clock: 400
Default Memory Clock: 980
Turbo GPU Clock: 500
Turbo Memory Clock: 1000

Outputs: VGA (one or two), DVI, TV-out, HDTV

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Looking at the video card we can see that it features the standard design for HIS' IceQ series. The cooling is handled by an Arctic Cooling ATI Silencer which HIS has customized and rebranded. The cooler has a large fan which spins parallel to the card and sends air from the case through the cooler's fins and then out of the enclosure. The fan has no guard so users should beware of stray cables and fingers, and though the fan does not spin fast enough to do much damage you would not want it to stop running because of possible overheating.

Flipping the card around we can see that the GPU cooler also cools the cards 256 MB of memory and that the X800 GTO does not require auxiliary power to run. The PCI Express connection is able to furnish the video card with all the power it needs, despite the fact that it is designed to run with a generous overclock. The rear of the video card has a substantial back plate which not only supports the cooler on the other side, but also presses against the memory on the back of the card so that they are able ot transfer some heat away. The stickers on the card have some basic model information and the HIS serial number.

The cooler looks awesome, but HIS does not want users toying with it. These GPU coolers are not especially complex, but given that it has sufficient power there is no reason that it should ever have to be removed, unless you are upgrading to watercooling. The size of the cooler means that it is said to take up the allotted area for the PCIE slot, plus the next expansion slot, but the cooler even spills over a bit more than that, not enough to get in way of the next card down though.