ASUS' Extreme high-end: ASUS EN6800 Ultra, EN6800 GT, EAX850 XT PE, and EAX800 XL
ASUS Extreme AX800XL Layout
- ASUS Extreme AX800 XL video card;
- Two 15-pin D-Sub/ DVI adapters;
- Cable for VIVO (9-pin S-Video/Composite);
- Adapter cable for additional power;
- Drivers and utilities CD;
- User's Manual on CD and the printed version;
- ASUS CD-Suite bundled with the following CDs:
- MediaShow SE 2.0
- PowerDirector 3DE
- ASUSDVD
- Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising
This time, not only the sticker on the lid of the cooling system (unlike EAX850 XT PE) tells that we have a product by ASUS. This is also seen from the orange color of the textolyte (ASUS' standard version for solutions on ATI chips), and the cooling system itself which is a fully copper radiator with a heat-pipe cooling the GPU and four memory chips on the PCB's front side, with the fan taking the left-hand half of the structure. In fact, cooling of the memory chips is practically a decorative item because the remaining memory chips positioned on the board's reverse side are not equipped with heat-spreaders. The cooling system is fastened with five screws. 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 card is equipped with 256 Mb of GDDR3 memory with a 256-bit data transmission bus assembled of eight Samsung BGA memory chips of 2 ns access time, which is equivalent to 500 MHz (1000 MHz DDR) operating frequency. The memory operating frequency in ASUS EAX800 XL fully match that. The memory chips are positioned in four along each side of the board.
Let's look at the graphic processor RX800 XL (R430). The chip was made on the 52nd week of year 2004, and its standard operating frequency is 400MHz. There are 16 pixel pipelines, and 6 vertex units.
Note that X800XL does not require plugging in additional power. That is one of the advantages of the solution as compared to its direct competitor - GeForce 6800GT.
The card is equipped with two digital outputs
and offers support for VIVO features implemented on the ATI Rage Theater chip.
Note separately the highlighting with bright blue LEDs.
Now on to benchmarking.
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