The Exhaust Vents And Power Connector

This close-up shot clearly shows the lack of contact between the second GPU cooler and the "exhaust vents" on the back plate. Any hot air that gets exhausted via these vents is almost certainly due to natural convection of hot air, rather than the action of the cooler's fan.

What exhaust?	PCI Express Power Connector

The card comes with only one 6-pin PCI Express power connector. Although you may expect two power connectors since this is essentially a combination of two cards, the GeForce 7950 GX2 only uses 19% more power than the GeForce 7900 GTX!

This can only be partially explained by the lower clock speeds of the GPUs and memory chips. It's highly likely that NVIDIA also undervolted the GPUs to achieve such a low power profile.

The PCI Express And SLI Connectors

Although the GeForce 7950 GX2 functions like two cards in SLI, it works just like any single-slot graphics card. The PCI Express connector is placed on the back PCB and so is the SLI connector.

The one and only PCI Express connector	The SLI connector

Yes! The GeForce 7950 GX2 supports SLI. If you pair two of these cards, the result will be your very own Quad SLI. Of course, you will need a very, very powerful system and a very large LCD panel to fully make use of Quad SLI.

But even if you intend to do so, know that the current NVIDIA ForceWare driver will not support Quad SLI for the GeForce 7950 GX2. For what we presume to be purely marketing reasons, NVIDIA will only release support for Quad SLI in future. Right now, Quad SLI will only be available via selected system assemblers.

Still, we have two of these cards and a confidential NVIDIA driver that supposedly supports Quad SLI for this card. We will give Quad SLI a spin with this card and see how well it does!

Now, let's break out the screwdriver and take a look under the cooler!