The little black block on the lower right. At 100% load this card can peak at a power consumption of 125 Watts, and the PCI-Express bus can't deliver the necessary power. PCI-Express is limited to 75 Watts so we need to hook the card up to our PSU directly with a (supplied) 6-pin cable.

Heat is guided from the core through the pipes towards the heat sinks on the left and right where airflow is regulated by the active fan. The fan is rotating extremely slowly and is barely audible. Good stuff.

The eVGA packaging. Nothing too flashy, just clean and nice.

Once hooked up in our beautiful passively water cooled gaming test rig we can fire it up. Live in action from Groningen - The Netherlands, now is that a pretty sight or what?