RX600XT and GeForce PCX5750: two pearls in MSI's crown
MSI GeForce PCX5750
Package bundle, design and layout of the board.
The package bundle of PCX5750 makes no difference from the above described bundle of RX600XT except the board itself and drivers.
Now let's look at the card itself.
It goes without saying that the color of the textolyte and the cooling system are traditional for MSI products.
There is 128 Mb DDR memory onboard with the 128-bit data transfer bus which are presented on board as eight Samsung memory chips marked K4D261638F - TC36 in the TSOP package, of 3.6 ns access time, which is equivalent to 275 MHz (550 MHz DDR) operating frequency. But in this particular specimen the rated operating frequency of the video memory proved to be a bit downstated and amounted to 500 MHz DDR.
The location of memory chips on the board is identical to what we are used to see on GeForce FX5700 (GPU NV36) - 4 chips on the front side, with the other four on the rear side.
The onboard cooling is implemented in absolutely the same way as in the RX600XT examined above. The radiator is round-shaped, made of aluminum, copper-styled, closes the GPU and memory chips without heat-spreaders.
But, besides the memory package, there is another distinction these two MSI boards can be easily told apart even with the naked eye.
This is the AGP-PCI Express bridge dubbed HSI.
MSI provided cooling also for the bridge and is made of the same material as the radiator for the GPU.
The board offers a standard set of outputs: analogous, digital, and TV-Out.
Now let's look at the GPU. The rated operating frequency of NV36 core is 425 MHz.
Note the "GEFORCE FX5700" sticker.
Our description would have been incomplete without mention of MSI's novelty called DOT (Dynamic Express Overclocking Technology).
In fact, this technology does not bear any practical benefit and is more likely just a nice and stylish addendum.
Now it's high time to switch from the exterior examination to practice and get round to comparative tests.
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