On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

As always, we start with packaging so you know what to look for in the stores. Mommy, it's the frog again  ! )

So here you can see the card we are putting through testing phases today. The GeForce GTX 260 SP216 Sonic from Palit. The card comes with no less than 896 MB of memory, and it surely is a bulky product when it comes to size. That red PCB is so unusual though.

Try to imagine for a second how cool this card would have looked with a black PCB and some yellow accents, yes indeed, drop-dead gorgeous.

The cooler is really efficient, yet it has to be, as there's a lot of heat to be moved away from that GPU for sure. The design ended up being dual-slot. Heat though, is exhausted 'somewhat' outside the PC which is a good thing. Note that the card has two SLI fingers. So if you really want to go nuts, two SLI fingers can get you three-way SLI.

Two times dual-link DVI supporting the highest resolutions. I wonder at what point in time we'll see HDMI or display port embedded on the cards -- the board partners are hesitating so much.

Perhaps because nobody likes to market: "Hey we want to DP our card" ;)

Graphics cards these days are getting pretty darn popular for HD playback through HTPC's. At GPU level everything is ready for both standards. This card is also Full HD compliant including HDCP protection.