Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT



Published by: 13.05.2007   Written by: Toni P. - Massimo M. - Marco R. - Luigi M.  
Translated by: OniXenon  
Jetway HD Radeon HD 2900XT - 3

Also the holes maintains the same distances, this is good news for who uses liquid cooling system, because they won't be obliged to change waterblock.
A general view of the Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT:

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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But, we like to see it naked, so after a few minutes at air, we “undressed” it (you won't see it everywhere):

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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The core is perfectly aligned at the security frame around the chip. Pay attention because it's naked and hasn't any protection

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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The following image is provided by AMD

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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The power supplying section is similar to a motherboard one, but requires an adequate cooling, because the mosfets became very hot.

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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We tested them as you can see in the photograph with a 120mm fan blowing air directly on all the area and the temperature was even around 45° C.
With the stock cooler those components easily reached and overcome 60°C.

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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One of the memory chips: we have 16 distributed on the two sides of the pcb. Using without cooler they remain around 48-52°C with a frequency of a 1050 MHz, if there is some air circulating

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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We advice to use some little stick coolers on the memory chips.

Jetway Radeon HD 2900 XT
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