RX600XT and GeForce PCX5750: two pearls in MSI's crown
MSI RX600XT
Package bundle:
As it is traditional for MSI, the abundance of the package bundle is truly royal.
- Video card MSI RX600XT;
- 15-pin D-Sub/ DVI adapter;
- S-Video/RCA adapter;
- A couple of detailed manuals;
- A really huge (14 altogether) collection of CDs, including
à) drivers;
b) software (SuperPack Adobe Photoshop AlbumSE+ 3D Album; FarStone VirtualDrive + FarStone RestoreIT!; InterVideo WinDVD 5.1 Channel + Supreme Foreign Language Learning Machine; 3D Desk Top; MSI Media Center Deluxe II)
c) games (Prince of Persia; Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow; URU; X III; 14 in 1 Games Collection);
- 6. MSI corporate logo sticker.
Design and layout
How can we distinguish an MSI video card from cards by other manufacturers without taking a close look at the board?
Right you are! The bright red textolyte and peculiar design of the cooling system.
The design of the board is an absolute replica of ATI reference design and is very similar to the design of practically all RADEON 9600XT and some RADEON 9600 PRO boards.
There is 128 Mb DDR memory onboard with the 128-bit data transfer bus which are presented on board as eight Hynix memory chips marked as HY5DU283222 AF-25 and made in the BGA form factor, offering 2.5 ns access time, but in the BIOS the memory is set to 330MHz (660 MHz DDR). Remember that on ABIT RX600XT-PCIE the same memory is set to 365MHz (730 MHz DDR).
Again, drawing your attention at the similarity of the board in question with most boards based on RV360 (9600XT) where the memory chips are located in an absolutely similar way - 4 chips on the front side and 4 on the rear side.
The above mentioned "representative" MSI cooling system is presented here in a more modest version than, for example, on GeForce FX5900 or 5950 where, as we remember, there was a quite massive fan-like radiator installed.
This time, the material (aluminum painted to look like copper) and the general style has preserved. Only the sizes have changed. The round radiator closes only the GPU leaving the job of cooling the memory chips to future owners of the card.
The board offers a standard set of outputs: analogous, digital, and TV-Out.
Completing the examination of the board, let's look at the GPU (ATI's RV380 core) whose rated frequency is 500 MHz.
On the core, the "right" paste like KPT-8 is applied.
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