Page 2: Box, Parts, Card
<B>The Box</B>:
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You didn't think I wasn't going to include this section did you!? Anyway, the box has some weird figure shape head sort of thing on it. Not that I cared to much, I bought it online. Would it grab my attention in a store? Possibly, but I'm not prone to buying hardware in a store unless it is a hot deal. Too expensive.
<B>The Parts</B>:
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ATI includes some good stuff with their cards, but the thing that was missing was games! I didn't get any new games with this card. I think ATI should've included at least ONE game to show off their card. Anyway, you get an assortment of various cables and things. Click the above picture for more info.
<B>The Card</B>:
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Before I went to open the card, I was greeted with a nice warning. It basically said to plug in the external power supply for the card. And you have too, when I didn't, it said that I didn't hook it up and it wouldn't work.
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Here we have the front and back views of the card. The layout is pretty well organized. The GPU has a decent size heatsink, and the memory has no cooling whatsoever. There is even a problem with the memory if you wanted to add some third party heatsinks.
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That power connector has to be on there for the card to work, and it is half blocking one of the memory chips. I'm sure with some time and a steady hand, you could move it somewhere else. I don't have either though
. I'm interested to see what types of fancy cooling solutions you have came up with though, please <a href="mailto:aronschatz@aselabs.com">email me</a> or <a href="/forums/">post in the forums</a>.
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The ports of the card include a normal VGA out, a DVI out (with VGA), and an S-Video out that can also do NTSC. My TV sucks and it doesn't have NTSC or S-video, and I wasn't about to move one of the other TVs in the house to try it. Heh, my monitor is better than my TV
. (I'm sure most of yours are as well)
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Another thing that caught my attention was the fact that the card is made in China. ATI is a Canadian company, but China... I know, everything is made cheaper in other countries.
Now we move on to the interesting part, the overclocking process.
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</center>You didn't think I wasn't going to include this section did you!? Anyway, the box has some weird figure shape head sort of thing on it. Not that I cared to much, I bought it online. Would it grab my attention in a store? Possibly, but I'm not prone to buying hardware in a store unless it is a hot deal. Too expensive.
<B>The Parts</B>:
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</center>ATI includes some good stuff with their cards, but the thing that was missing was games! I didn't get any new games with this card. I think ATI should've included at least ONE game to show off their card. Anyway, you get an assortment of various cables and things. Click the above picture for more info.
<B>The Card</B>:
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</center>Before I went to open the card, I was greeted with a nice warning. It basically said to plug in the external power supply for the card. And you have too, when I didn't, it said that I didn't hook it up and it wouldn't work.
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</center>Here we have the front and back views of the card. The layout is pretty well organized. The GPU has a decent size heatsink, and the memory has no cooling whatsoever. There is even a problem with the memory if you wanted to add some third party heatsinks.
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</center>That power connector has to be on there for the card to work, and it is half blocking one of the memory chips. I'm sure with some time and a steady hand, you could move it somewhere else. I don't have either though
. I'm interested to see what types of fancy cooling solutions you have came up with though, please <a href="mailto:aronschatz@aselabs.com">email me</a> or <a href="/forums/">post in the forums</a>.<center>
</center>The ports of the card include a normal VGA out, a DVI out (with VGA), and an S-Video out that can also do NTSC. My TV sucks and it doesn't have NTSC or S-video, and I wasn't about to move one of the other TVs in the house to try it. Heh, my monitor is better than my TV
. (I'm sure most of yours are as well)<center>
</center>Another thing that caught my attention was the fact that the card is made in China. ATI is a Canadian company, but China... I know, everything is made cheaper in other countries.
Now we move on to the interesting part, the overclocking process.