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EVGA ACS2- The first GPU to use heatpipes.

EVGA ushered in the ACS^(2), which was being strapped to the GeForce4 Ti 4600. ACS^(2) iterated on the original by adding memory coverage, as well as another industry first: heatpipes. While the blower fan on the MX 440 may not have been entirely necessary (passive versions of the card were made available at the time), a more than doubling of performance on a chip like the Ti 4600 could warrant the extra cooling help.

EVGA also ran a contest to trade in a GeForce4 ACS for "EVGA Bucks" in 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20201120011033/https://www.evga.com/articles/01177/evga-christmas-miracle/

EVGA GeForce4 MX 440 ACS Cooler 064-A4-NV70-S1

First EVGA "ACS" Cooler Design (from EVGA):

Remember the EVGA GeForce4 MX 440? Back then was when EVGA first introduced ACS (the Asymmetric Cooling System), it was the first serious attempt to improve the way cooling devices for video cards were made and employed. ACS was designed in a new, efficient manner; with a much larger heat sink with far more surface area to allow for much better heat dissipation; and the fan was placed off center from the GPU so as to allow it to be better protected from extreme temperatures and to allow it to create a much more efficient air flow through the entire unit. In other words, the first "blower" style cooler on a graphics card!

EVGA also ran a contest to trade in a GeForce4 ACS for "EVGA Bucks" in 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20201120011033/https://www.evga.com/articles/01177/evga-christmas-miracle/

EVGA GTX 275 Co-Op PhysX. This combined a GTX 275 core with a GTS 250 for PhysX. This was similar to a 295 (which has 2 285 cores) but combined 2 different GPU cores. There was also a version with the "Joker". It also supported SLI when paired with a GTX 275 (the 2 GTX 275 would work in SLI and the GTS 250 would work for PhysX). https://www.evga.com/articles/archive/00503/default.asp

EVGA GTX 2Win with dual GTX 460 GF104 Cores