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This is a photo of the VGA card showing the massive memory ram heatsinks on top, and slightly smaller mosfet heatsinks on the bottom side of the card. The RAMSINKS are so tall, they almost come in contact with the CPU heatpipes. The alluminum heatsinks finns were machined down to accomodate the 40mm blue fan which helps coole the heatsing, Total cost for this build was only $5.99 and that was for the fan.