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ASUS AGEIA PHYSX PPU card Review 4 Gripen 22 Jun 2006
The Card   The card is essentially an AGEIA reference design with a blue PCB, and sports 128MB of GDDR3 memory. The choice of Asus cooler - a simple aluminium heatsink with a 45mm fan(a typical Geforce 3/4 era graphics cooler). The fan was pretty quiet during operation as I could not hear it over the sound of my cpu fan, which rotates at around 4800rpm. The mounting system is praise worthy as it gives even more tension than push pins. The only disadvantage is that a small phillips screw driver is required to remove the cooler. The only nit pick I could find about the card is that hot air coming out from the PPU cooler's exhaust vent is obstructed by 3 capacitors. During testing these 3 capacitors do feel warmer compared to the rest. The card requires a standard 4-pin molex power connector - AGEIA revealed that the 28W load is just on the high side of the maximum power draw capable through a PCI 2.2 expansion slot.. Unless your PSU has an unused four-pin molex connector with enough length, the bundled Y cable is required.
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