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September 8th, 2003 |
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$143-145 |
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8/10 |
Albatron GeForce FX 5200 Ultra & 5600P Video Cards Contents
After opening the Albatron box, you will soon find
a GeForce FX, a GIGI GeForce FX manual, Win DVD Creator CD, GeForce FX NVIDIA
drivers, RCA cables, S-Video to RCA cable converter, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project,
and a game pack. Both the 5200 ultra and the 5600P turbo come with all
these exciting features.
- Grapics Engine: GeForce FX 5600 / GeForce FX 5200 ultra
- Memory Size: 128MB DDR
- Memory Bus: 128bit
- Engine Clock: 325MHz
- RAMDAC of 5600P: 400MHz
- RAMDAC of 5200U: 350MHz
- Max. Resolution: 2048X1536@75Hz
- Bus Standard: AGP 8X / 4X
- VGA Output: Yes
- TV Tuner: No
- TV-out: Yes
- VIVO(Video-in.Video Out): No
- DVI: Yes
- WINDVD: No
- WIN DVR: No
- WINDVD Creator: Yes
- Power DVD: No
- Power Director: No
- 3D GAMES: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
- Game Pack
 The
physical attributes of the two cards are identical except for the GPU (Graphics
Processing Unit) which is hidden underneath
the Heat sink Fan. As we can see the graphics board is colored teal for those
who are interested in ensuring their internal components match their Cold Cathodes,
however I’ve never seen anyone actually care that much about individual
card colors in a computer. The heat sinks are made of copper, one active cooling
system
on
the GPU while Albatron chose to use passive cooling systems on the memory.
However the design of active cooling system directly affects the cooling properties
of the passive memory heat sinks by blowing the exhaust air away from the GPU
and over the memory at the same time thus cooling both the memory, and the
Graphics Processing Unit.
As we can see from the picture, the model number
diverted our attention to the white pages of Samsung for the 5600’s memory,
and the Hynix white pages for the 5200’s memory. As you can see, we got
a bit confused about Albatron’s choice in using the memory on their products.
 The model numbers clearly state in our pictures
that the 5600’s ram is Samsung model: K4D26323RA-GC33, which officially
runs at 400 MHz. On the products white pages, the memory runs at an officially
supported 300MHz and 600 MB/sec. We can see here Albatron is slightly over
clocking the memory by 100 MHz on their 5600 Turbo.
 However
when we looked at the 5200 Ultra, we were stumped. The memory on this product
is manufactured by Hynix. As we can
see, the model number HY5DU283222 F-28 officially runs at only 350 MHz, 50
MHz faster than the memory on the 5600 Turbo (according to Samsung and Hynix).
Now the major difference here is that the memory here is not over clocked by
Albatron, will this allow us to push the limit with this video card or will
the Graphics Processing Unit limit us?
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