ASUS' Extreme high-end: ASUS EN6800 Ultra, EN6800 GT, EAX850 XT PE, and EAX800 XL
ASUS Extreme AX850 XT PE Layout
The package bundle slightly differs from that in the above described for EN6800 Ultra. No web camera is included in it, but there are much more interesting and important items, namely:
- ASUS Extreme AX850 XT PE video card;
- Two 15-pin D-Sub/ DVI adapters;
- S-Video/RCA adapter;
- Cables for S-Video, RCA, S-Video/Composite, and S-Video/HDTV;
- Adapter cable for additional power;
- Drivers and utilities CD;
- User's Manual on CD and the printed version;
- ASUS CD-Suite, this time of more "classical" design", bundled with the following CDs:
- MediaShow SE 2.0
- PowerDirector 3DE
- ASUSDVD
- Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising game;
- XPAND RALLY game
Like in the previous material where we reviewed RX850 XT PE by Gigabyte, this card is in fact an ATI's reference board. Apart from the package bundle, its belonging to ASUS product line is seen from the respective sticker on the cooling system.
The cooling system is made up of the copper radiator directly contacting the GPGU, and aluminum plate cooling the four memory chips on the board's front side. The structure is fastened on board with two screws and a plate on the reverse side. To prevent the small components from damage upon direct contact of the screws with the textolyte, there are protective elastic "washers" placed between them. To cool the remaining memory chips positioned on the reverse side of the board, a separate aluminum plate is used. The fan takes air, runs it through beneath the lid and blows it outside through holes in the cap.
In our video card specimen, as the thermal interface the "jewel steel" paint was used for the GPU, as well as heat-conductive spacers (memory chips).
The graphic processor R480 was made on the 48th week of year 2004, also offers 16 pixel pipelines, 6 vertex units, the way it is on NVIDIA's flagship model, and runs at 540MHz which is standard for Õ850ÕÒ ÐÅ cards.
The card is equipped with 256 Mb of GDDR3 memory with a 256-bit data transmission bus assembled of eight Samsung BGA memory chips of 1.6 ns access time, which is equivalent to 625 MHz (1250 MHz DDR) operating frequency. The memory originally runs at 590MHz (1180MHz DDR), which is equivalent to frequencies recommended for this card. The memory chips are positioned in four along each side of the PCB. The card is also equipped with a connector for additional power supply,
It offers support for VIVO features implemented on the ATI Rage Theater chip,
and is equipped with two digital outputs.
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