ASUS EAH3650 TOP 256MB Review :: ASUS EAH3650 Card

ASUS uses a large heatsink/fan on the EAH3650 to cool the graphics chip. They call the cooling solution the ASUS Glaciator and it is exclusive to ASUS. The heatsink on the Glaciator is mounted on the PCB by four spring mounted screws. The assembly covers over ½ the area of the front of the card. The Glaciator has 9 fins on the fan. This cooling solution is designed to keep the graphics chip cool even under the highest load.

Fan

Fan Power

Top of Fan

Rear of Fan

ASUS outfits the card with four 512Megabit Qimonda DDR3 memory modules designated HYB18H512321BF-12. According to Qimonda’s website these are specced to run at 800MHz. ASUS decided to clock these memory modules at 900MHz which is a 100MHz overclock of the standard specification. During operation no problems with the memory were observed, meaning that the overclock of the spec works great on the ASUS EAH3650 TOP card.

Card Front

Card Back

Front Capacitor

Rear Capacitor

ASUS decided to include two Dual Link DVI ports and a TV-Out port with their new card. The yellow DVI port on the top of the card is used in conjunction with a HDMI-VGA adapter to run the card with a HDMI monitor. The TV-Out port on the card can be used to connect to a HDTV or to a normal TV. You can attach two DVI to VGA adapters to run the card in dual monitor mode.

Memory Chips

PCI-E

Crossfire

I/O

I/O Top View

The HD3650 is a native PCI Express 2.0 card. PCI Express 2.0 doubles the available bandwidth from the system to the video card up to 8GB/second up from the 4GB/second on the first generation PCI Express bus.