The X1900 series just entered the market right before Cebit and we can now find them for prices around 600$USD which is quite for the best model named XTX, but we have a review sample here that we will share our thoughts about though as I know that alot of people will still go for this card if it performs well. We will compare it to some older top end cards to see what type of performance we really do get with this X1900XTX from Sapphire.
About Sapphire:
All SAPPHIRE ATI video boards are manufactured under 100% ATI production criteria including QC and outgoing system. Our monthly video board production capacity can reach a lofty 1.8 million and often topples this landmark figure. Our factory has always been the major manufacturer on ATI boards for most of the top ten tier 1 OEMs worldwide.
With this background, you should undoubtedly be guaranteed of the impeccable quality, production capacity and product reliability of all ATI video boards and mainboards from SAPPHIRE. Be they business oriented or something just off center of the crosshairs, Sapphire has a solution for you and we look forward to an exciting and prosperous relationship with you!
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Specifications:
RADEON� X1900 XTX core (650MHz)
512MB GDDR3 onboard memory (1550MHz)
48 pixel shader processors
256-bit Memory Bus
PCI Express x16
Pixel Shader Version 3.0
Video Acceleration of: MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264
Dual DVI
Video-In and Video-Out
2 Sapphire Select Unlock keys
The product:
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The product came in a very colorful box which on the front has some logos and on the back a bunch of specifications on this card. I can already feel by holding the box that the fan, heatsink combo on this card is quite heavy so we will look into that also to see if it's a problem when moving the computer around.
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Inside the box I found a manual, s-video cable, and loads of different adapters to be able to run this card on the tv. You also get a VGA to DVI converter and a converter from molex to PCI-E power cable.
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Inside you also get a bunch of different cd�s, you get Powerdirector 4, Sapphire driver cd, Powerdvd6 and a game cd with different games. I earlier said this card is quite big and you can really see it on this picture, even though the card is long the heatsink and fan combo covers most of the card. Lets take a closer look.
