EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Review :: Card

Card front

GeForce GTX295 logo

Front fan

PCI Express

The front of the card has the EVGA logo along with the GeForce GTX 295 logo. There is a mesh design to the front of the card. The cooling fan is a 47-fin fan that is surrounded by an enclosure. The design of the PCB itself is rather interesting. The cooling system is on a middle board with one GPU on one side of the card and the second on the other side of the card facing in.

Power

SLI bridge

Fins

EVGA GeForce GTX 295 logo

The top of the card has a 6-pin and an 8-pin power connector. The card itself requires 238W of power to run and the two power connectors are present to provide the extra power that the PCI Express slot can't provide. Also on top of the card is a SLI bridge. The GeForce GTX 295 is capable of running together with a second GTX295 in Quad SLI mode. Quad SLI mode brings the ability to run four graphics chips at the same time on the computer.

Rear

Rear fan

2 slots

IO

The rear of the card has the rear fan area (remember this card has two PCBs sandwiching the cooling solution), the mounting bracket for the graphics chip and the Part Number and Serial Number sticker. The front I/O of the card has two Dual-Link DVI connectors and a HDMI monitor connector. With the switch to Digital TV (DTV) having occurred this week, the need for HDTVs which might have the HDMI connector is present.