We had a look at a Albatron PCI express card a few weeks ago and tonight we have a even better PCI-E card from Gigabyte.
They sent us their FX5900 PCI-E card for testing. We will compare this to a Fx5900XT card and the Albatron PCX5750 card.
We will benchmark it with the latest games and test some overclocking to finally see how good this card can perform.
About Gigabyte:
The success of Giga-Byte Technology has exceeded all expectations. With the commitment to upgrading the IT industry, Giga-Byte Technology built up a solid foundation upon the envisioned industry scale. These efforts have earned Giga-Byte Technology an eminent and widespread reputation, as well as the focus of attention and accomplishment around the world. With the respectable performance of motherboard business and global reputation along with worldwide brand awareness, Giga-Byte Technology is making steady progress to become one of the best total IT product providers in the world.
Specifications:
Chipset nVIDIA Geforce PCX 5900
Memory 128 MB
Mem Bus 256 bit
Mem Type DDR 4Mx32
D-SUB Y
TV-OUT Y
DVI Port Y
MultiView Y
H/W Monitor N
Tools V-Tuner II
GAME 2
Software Power DVD 5.0
The board:
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Will be intresting to see how this card can perform against a normal video card. Well to start with its very nicely packed and on the back we find specifications and features
that this card holds.
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Well what is included then? A manual ofcourse, Power dvd 5 and the games Spellforce and Rainbox Six 3 Raven shield.
We also have some adapters included and they are DVI adapter and a S-VHS adapter.
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The card is equipped with a heatsink on the bottom and a bigger heatsink with a fan that covers the core.
The fan itself is actually pretty loud so be warned :). We can see that the memory
is not equipped with heatsinks unfortunetly which might lower the overclocking, but that is still to see.
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No heatsinks on the back just because they are not needed as the memory is only on one side. Lets change page now to start with some testing and to see how this card really can perform in Doom 3 for example.