A Lenovo touch-screen laptop enables intuitive, on-screen navigation, letting you tap, swipe and drag as easily on your computer as your smartphone or tablet. Do you prefer a small screen that’s easy to carry with you, or do you want a large screen to simplify multitasking and provide a cinematic view while streaming movies or playing games? Vvikoo is very new to the computer business, for now they're specifically aiming at the VGA market but with all this competition around they're sure in for a tug fight. For now they've covered quite a wide range of products, even though they've been releasing product as late as 2007 they have all ready covered the whole GeForce 8, 9 and Radeon HD2x00 series. VVIKOO 9600 GT Turbo: GeForce 8800 GTS: GeForce 8800 GT: GeForce 8800 GTS: Radeon HD 2900 XT: GeForce 8800 GTX: GeForce 8800 Ultra: Shader units: 120: 32: 320: 320: 64: 64: 96: 112: 128: 320: 128: 128: ROPs: 4 x2: 8: 16: 16: 16: 16: 20: 16: 16: 16 x2: 24: 24: GPU: RV630: G84: RV670: RV670: G94: G94: G80: G92: G92: R600: G80: G80: Transistors: 390M: 289M: 666M: 666M: 505M: 505M: 681M: 754M: 754M: 700M: 681M: 681M: Memory Size: 256 MB: 256 MB: 256 MB: 512 MB. VVIKOO is a graphics card company which sells both NV & ATI cards from mainstream to high-end level, the company is based in France where they started earlier last year, well at least their sales. Vvikoo are an up and coming GPU manufacturer based in Paris, France. This makes a change from the usual dominance of the Eastern and Western companies; these guys aren’t too far from home. We recently reviewed their 8600GT which turned out very well indeed. Today however, we will be looking at something from the other camp, the 2600 Pro.
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A Closer Look
The cooler is the original Zalman VF1000 - just like you could buy it in a shop. What sets it apart is the metal plate displayed in the second picture. It helps stabilize the cooler on the card. Without it the heatpipes could bend easily if some weight is applied to the cooler which floats above the PCB being connected only to the GPU via heatpipe. This is a quite flimsy construction and could break under abuse. The metal plate costs next to nothing and makes the construction as sturdy as any 'normal' VGA cooler.I would also like to point out that there is absolutely no memory chip cooling, not even a heatspreader metal plate. While this won't be any problem at all for normal operation since there is the normal airflow from the fan around the memory chips, the memory overclock is limited by this.
One MAJOR I found on my board is that one of the four washers on the back which hold the cooler in place is dimensioned too big so it sits on top of a little capacitor nearby. When I disassembled the card I obviously didn't notice it, is it very hard to spot. After unscrewing the four screws and removing the cooler a tiny little capacitor was on the desk too. I wondered where the little bugger came from and started looking, it took me close to five minutes to find the location of the missing capacitor.
When I re-assembled the card I tried using different mounting holes which the Zalman cooler can do easily without any modification. Just screw out the two bottom posts and screw them in a bit closer to the GPU. The mounting holes fitting them are in the PCB already. As you can see there is lots of clearance now, so it is a possibility that the guys who assembled the cooler accidentally used the wrong mounting hole.
We notified VVIKOO of this and they are looking into the problem. The card I have works perfectly fine without the capacitor, so if you break this one off, try without it first, before you try to solder it back and cause more damage. Make sure you store the little capacitor in a safe place where you can get it in case you need it.
This card is compatible with SLI and can be paired with any other 9600 GT card. Above picture also shows where you connect the audio input from the motherboard for use with HDMI+Audio.
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The power connector on the back is required to supply power to the card. It is also required when running in PCI-E 2.0 mode, which would be able to supply all power over the bus.Like on all current NVIDIA cards, GDDR3 is used. The Samsung chips carry the model number K4J52324QE-BJ1A. Even though they have 1.0 ns latency (= 1000 MHz) we saw a stable memory overclock of close to 1100 MHz.
This is NVIDIA's new G94 GPU, which is made at TSMC in a 65 nm process with 505 million transistors.Value and Conclusion
- You can find the VVIKOO 8600 GT Turbo for about $130 (add local VAT and convert to Euro) on the German, French and UK markets.
- Pre-overclocked
- Zalman cooler included
- Excellent overclocking potential
- Good price
- GDDR3 Memory
- DirectX 10 + Shader Model 4.0 Support
- HD Video decoding capabilities
- SLI capable
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- Only available in UK, DE, FR
- Dual Slot cooling solution
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Our benchmarks show that the GeForce 8600 GT Turbo from VVIKOO has a nice performance advantage over the 8600 GT out of the box, but it can not beat the 8600 GTS. Once we overclocked the card, this was not a problem anymore. Especially at higher resolutions there is quite a difference in performance, big enough to be noticed while gaming.
The price of the 8600 GT Turbo is only $20 more than a regular 8600 GT, so if you are in the market for such a card, spend a few bucks extra and get a nice performance boost.
