GeCube Radeon 9600XT

This Radeon 9600XT from GeCube is quite uncommon, compared to other Radeon 9600XT cards. This card, with the model number of GC-R96XTG C3, comes with a pretty large heatsink covering the RV360 and memory chips. It is roughly 17cm long and about 10cm wide. The different PCB design allowed a larger heatsink to be used. Gecube also added two ramsinks on the back of the card to provide better cooling for the memory.

This card comes with 2.86ns Samsung BGA memory chips, which are rated to run at 700MHz. However, GeCube set the memory clock speed at 650MHz, which is 50MHz faster than the memory chips on ATI’s reference card. The ATI Radeon 9600XT reference card run at clock speeds of 500MHz core and 600MHz memory.

Like other Radeon 9600XT cards, this card doesn’t need an auxiliary power source. Now, here is something very different from other Radeon 9600XT cards.

The PCB of this card doesn’t have the necessary circuits for ATI’s OVERDRIVE feature. I don’t think this will be a problem for most overclockers because they are probably a lot more comfortable using the old-fashioned way of overclocking. But newbies can forget about doing it the easy way via OVERDRIVE in this card.

As you can see, the PCB of this card is very different from what we normally see in many Radeon 9600XT cards. Will this influence the overclocking ability of this card? We will find out about that. But before we go into overclocking, let’s have a look at the layout.