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Internet erotica ? Fo'get about it when you can look at images like these! Study many photos in the ASUS EAX1900 Crossfire 512MB image gallery.
There she is, the EAX1900 Crossfire master card. Looks familiar doesn't it ? Correct. It's 100% the same as the reference ATI X1900 XTX and XT. Armed with 512 MB gDDR3 memory. It's a beast. This card weighs easily a pound. Next to that it has a two slot cooling solution. That indicates clearly that the card needs much cooling, and it does. The fan disposes tremendous amounts of heat.
When we look at the master card we see one abnormal connector (lower one). This is where you connect the Crossfire y-cable. One lead will then go to the slave card and the other DVI connector on the y-cable towards your monitor.
Dual link DVI pins effectively double the power of transmission and provide an increase of speed and signal quality; i.e. a DVI single link 60-Hz LCD can display a resolution of 1920 x 1080, while a DVI dual link can display a resolution up-to 2560x1200. All cards have two DVI connectors except the 1300 series which has a CRT/VGA connector. Manufacturers however will be allowed to make their own choice in the connectors though.
The cooling of the X1800 & X1900 series is dual-slot and rather loud. The dual-slot design however uses an advanced cooler that combines a copper and aluminum-based that keeps operating temperatures to an acceptable level which means you end up with a very stable product.
Really, that's a lovely couple of boxes to receive.
Today's tested product is the shaggy Radeon X1950 Pro which comes with the newer IceQ3 cooling solution; a review on ATI's latest 12-pipe mid-range product which obviously was based off the R580 silicon, and is quite frankly a very credible graphics card as you'll learn in this article. The card features 36 Pixel Shaders units. And for roughly $219-239 you can pickup the 256MB version already.
Radeon X1650 XT & X1950 Pro & Crossfire
Primarily this is a Radeon X1650 XT Crossfire article, yet with included X1950 Pro Crossfire results as well. Ever since NVIDIA released the GeForce 7600 GS/GT cards earlier this year ATI has had a very rough time delivering a product that offers the same performance. They constantly were close but not close enough. ATI worked hard to finish up its new 80 nanometer products and despite a delay of all the 80 nanometer chips, it is finally ready in good quantities. The Radeon X1950 Pro for example is such a product.
HiS Radeon X1650 PRO review
The Radeon X1650 Pro utilizes the ATI RV535 graphics core, a new revision of the RV530 which was the basis of the X1600 series. What's new then you are asking ? Uhm, well nothing except a newer 80nm fabrication process. That 80nm process ensures cheaper production of the silicon and more importantly less heat and likely lower graphics core voltages. That means you can clock the core faster, which was done quite insignificantly for this model but the increase is there.
Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB Review
So today we'll be looking at the rather lovely Radeon X1950 Pro from this company, a review on ATI's latest 12-pipe mid-range product which obviously was based off the R580 silicon, and quite frankly is a very credible graphics card as you'll learn in this article. The card features 36 Pixel Shaders units. For $199 you can pickup the 256MB version already, it sounds like a great deal as it should offer at least twice the performance of a X1600 Pro.