The EVGA card is a reference design in every sense of the word. The card is 9.5 inches long and 4.365 inches tall, making it an easy fit onto every chassis available on the market today that can fit a full height PCI Express card. The card itself is black with the front of the cooling unit having a GeForce GTS 250 logo on it. The cooling fan is a 47-fin fan that has been found on most NVIDIA based video cards for years.
The card is a dual-slot design meaning that you will need a PCI Express x16 slot and an adjacent slot to install the card. There is a single 6-pin power connector on the top of the card, which is one benefit of the new card. The 9800GTX+ cards all required two 6-pin power connectors, the GTS 250 only requires a single power connector. Also on top of the card are two SLI bridges which allow the user to install two or three cards in SLI mode. SLI requires a SLI-ready motherboard, two or three cards of the same type and NVIDIA's drivers to work.
The Input/output area of the card should be familiar to anyone who has owned a modern video card. The card has two Dual-Link DVI Outputs and a HDTV-7 connector. You can use adapters to use HDMI monitors, or analog CRT monitors if you so desire. The rear of the card has the Part Number and Serial Number sticker on it. The mounting screws for the graphics chip and the cooling system are located on the back as well. The GTS 250 is a PCI Express 2.0 card meaning that it will have up to 5GB/second of transfer between the card and the motherboard chipset.
