The fans on the PowerPack! Ultra/2400 Golden Sample are highlighted with red LEDs – they are not as bright as the fashionable blue LEDs, but still visible even in a mildly-lit room.

The heatsinks of the cooling system resemble those of the reference card, but with minor differences: the GPU one is made of copper, while the heatsink on the memory chips doesn’t use a heat pipe, but is a simple aluminum bar with “combs” glued up to it.

Paste and pads are the thermal interface to the GPU and memory chips, respectively:

The fans are placed almost symmetrically relative to the heatsink on the GPU. This design is the opposite of the GeForce 6800 GT’s standard one where air is directed from the fan to the heatsink ribs with the help of a casing.

In this card, however, the two fans have to fight each other blowing air at the ribs of the heatsink. Is this solution effective? We’ll test it later on.