A Walkabout in SLS (25-3-2006) - Planet NVIDIA's launch weekend! Leadtek Winfast PX7900GTX
The flagship card of NVIDIA's current line up is their Geforce 7900GTX. This time round, we didn't see as much stocks of such cards as compared to it's predecessor, the 7800GTX. But nevertheless, we still managed to find a small quantity of such cards proudly being displayed on retail shelves both last week and this week. One of such cards that appeared this week is Leadtek Winfast PX7900GTX. Although this card still carry the same reference design, Leadtek had tinted the heatsink shroud black, and included some "personalization" on the card. The standard version of the Winfast PX7900GTX doesn't provide any out of box pre-overclocking, but we've heard the existence of the "Extreme" version that would provide pre-overclocking. Nevertheless, we haven't spot that on retail yet, but this particular standard card can be found at Bell Systems, going for just $ 955.
This is how the PX7900GTX is packaged in. The packaging is similar to what the PX7900GT has.
The card itself, together with it's large (but still based on the reference designed) cooler. Leadtek had some emblems on it's heatsink, and the design looks exactly the same as how the PX7800GTX 512 looks like.
Just like any other 7900GTX out there, the cooling solution features 4 heatpipes soldered on the copper plate at the center, where the graphics core is. Heat is transferred from the core region to the surrounding fins, and the large radial fan at the center will expel heat from both direction.
All high-end cards would feature similar output options like this card - Dual DVI output together with the DIN TV-Out connector.
The back of the card looks like this.
Here, you can see the fineness and the density of the fins on the cooling solution. And of course, high end cards like this would require a 6pin PCIe power connector to work.

















