• Zotac 9400GT Zone Edition

    Zotac 9400GT Zone Edition

    Roydon Cerejo, Sep 03, 2008 1021 hrs IST

    NVIDIA tries to entice the HTPC crowd with its latest offering.

    55nm, DVI audio, Passive cooler, Low power consumption.

    Takes up two PCI slots, A bit pricey given the performance.

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The back of the card is a little less exciting, except at the top where the heat sink overlaps on the back.



The rear does not sport any 6-pin power connector as the power consumption is just 50W, which it can comfortably draw from the PCI-E slot itself. Here we have a better view of the heat sink design. I must say even though that extra fold on the back does not do anything for the thermal performance, it sure does add that cool factor to the card.

Another thing to note is that even though the heat sink is big, it does not cover the RAM chips. This was a little disappointing, as they could have covered the RAM chips too for better cooling.



With the heat sink taken off we can clearly see the core and the SAMSUNG memory modules surrounding it. The four rubber pads surrounding the core are there so that the heat sink has some support.



From this shot we can clearly see the G96 die, which is based on the same 55nm process.

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(6) Comments
c.jfgzz
,america, on May 21, 2010 10:36 PM
this is the best version in the universit
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Jack Sparrow
,Hyd, on Feb 25, 2009 10:10 PM
"That's not all, even the power consumption is pretty relaxed taking a maximum draw of around 120W on full load and 98W on idle - perfect for a download rig or and HTPC." I wonder why people would add a graphics card for a download rig??
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Jack Sparrow
,Hyd, on Jan 20, 2009 01:39 PM
Damn stupid review. Do you atleast have common sense? Benchmarking a graphic card meant for htpc with a quad core extreme?? where's the sense in that
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Ahmad
,Delhi, on Oct 04, 2008 03:45 PM
how much this beuty cost??
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Gaurav P
,Jaipur, on Sep 29, 2008 11:28 AM
how it help in gaming....
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rajesh
,sachdevia, on Sep 04, 2008 02:03 PM
What is the point of benchmarking this card? it's supposed to be an HTPC card and you do crysis benchmarks on it? Where is the number crunching on it using standard AMD/Intel CPUs and Processor usage on blu-ray playback? How about quality of playback? Very stupid review
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