Gigabyte Radeon X800 Pro Review
The vide card is packaged in a very big cardboard box with a handle to carry it around.
Apart from the card, there are the following components in the card:
- Power supply adapter (splitter);
- DVI-to-D-Sub adapter;
- S-Video cable, CA cable
- S-Video=>RCA adapter
- S-Video=>HDTV adapter
- User's Manual in English and Chinese;
- A Catalyst drivers CD + technological demos.
- Rainbow Six3 Raven Shield (full version - 2 CDs);
- SpellForce (full version - 2 CDs);
- Licensed version of PowerDVD 5.0;
- Licensed version of 3D-Album 2.03;
The card offers AGP x8/x4 interface and is a precise replica of the ATI Radeon X800 Pro reference design.
There is 256 MB of GDDR3 memory onboard. Eight chips altogether are installed on the front and reverse sides of the card.
The memory chip is made in the BGA package and offers 2 ns access time, which is equivalent to 500 (1000DDR) MHz operating speed.
The real memory frequency is a little bit different from the requirements of the reference design. It amounts to 445(890) MHz, and not 450 as it should be according to the X800 Pro specifications. The chip frequency is 3 MHz less than the required: 472MHz versus 475 MHz. In any case, both the chip and the memory offer some margin for frequency increase (i.e. for overclocking :).
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