Radeon X800XL 512Mb Roundup
GeCube RX800XL 512Mb
Package bundle:
- GeCube RX800XL 512Mb video card;
- DVI/ D-Sub 15-pin adapter;
- VIVO splitters;
- Adapter for additional power supply;
- User's manual;
- Drivers and utilities CD;
- PowerDVD 5;
- PowerDirector 2.5 ME;
- Game - Counter Strike: Condition Zero
By the PCB design, GeCube's RX800XL does not make any difference from the above reviewed board, so we'd better move straight to the cooling system - it does offer something worth looking at. The cooling system on this card is single-slotted, unlike that installed on Sapphire's previous board.
The base of the cooling system is an integral copper plate covering the GPU and all the four video memory chips positioned on the board's front panel.
We have already come across a cooling system like that in the review of GeCube RX850XT PE. IN the left-hand part, there is a big radiator, with the heat-spreading fins and a heat pipe in the right. The lid here is solely a decorative element since it doesn't cover the whole structure completely. As usual, there is a GeCube logo and the card model name on it. The radiator on the front side of the board is fastened with a pair of screws.
To cool the eight memory chips positioned on the reverse side of the board, there is a separate copper-styled aluminum plate. The plate is fastened with three screws.
The manufacturer used the "jewel steel" for GPU as the thermal interface and thermal spacers for the video memory chips.
The card is equipped with 512 Mb of GDDR3 video memory with a 256-bit data transmission bus of the BGA form factor, in the form of 16 Infineon memory chips of 2 ns access time. This is equivalent to 500 MHz (1000 MHz DDR) of operating frequency. The effective memory frequency is 990MHz DDR. The memory chips are positioned in eight along each side of the PCB.
Let's look at the R430 graphic processor (here there chip is marked simply as X800). The GPU operating frequency is also 400MHz. The chips uses 16 pixel pipelines, and 6 vertex units.
The board also supports VIVO features implemented on the ATI Rage Theater chip.
It is equipped with a connector for additional power supply,
and with two digital outputs.
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