Palit Revolution 700 Deluxe 2GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

A Closer Look at the Palit Revolution 700

Even though the Palit Revolution stays within the same form factor length-wiseas many of the other high-end cards out there, it is the height where things differ quite a bit. There is also the addition of a completely custom heatsink design coupled with a pair of 80mm fans. The effect is dramatic to be sure but there will be someinherent issues with Crossfire on some motherboards considering the height of the heatsink.


The heatsink design of this card is unique to say the least and even though we will be getting a little further into that in the next section, you can see above that there areareas cut out of the shroud in order to let the air escape through the sides. We are also able to glance at the inner workings of the heatsink fins which seem to indicate that all of the heat producedby this card will be dumped into the inside of your case.


Continuing our tour around the Revolution, we come to the power connectors of which there is a single8-pin and lone 6-pin. These are rotated 90 degrees from what we are used to seeing on R700-based cards and as such is definitely an excellent choice by Palit since it gives easier access to the power connectors.

There is also a 4-pin fan header so we are hoping that both fans on this card are temperature or at least load controlled considering the last time (link) we saw a dual fan design from Palit, it was horribly loud.


As you can see, the backplate of the Deluxe is ridiculously huge in order to accommodate the oversized heatsink and its accompanying fans. Palit made sure to account for nearly every connector currentlyon the market by including outputs for DVI, VGA, HDMI and even DisplayPort. It does make one wonder why a DVI to HDMI dongle was part of the accessories considering it is a bit redundant with the HDMI connector already natively attached to the card.