ATI Radeon X1900 Series Preview

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Kurtis Kronk
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Jan. 24, 2006

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The Card (X1900 XTX)

Since I am only testing the X1900 XTX today, I will only show pictures of this one card. The only other card I have on hand anyways is the X1900 Crossfire, and it looks the same. You'll notice that it looks very similar to the X1800 XT which we covered in our X1000 preview article. It's not identical, but you can't tell the difference unless you look at the actual components on the board. Anyways, now I'll show you some pictures of the card and tell you a bit about it.

The X1900 XT uses the same cooler as the X1800 XT which is a dual slot design which sucks air in at the front edge of the card and then exhausts warm air (and I do mean warm) out the 2nd PCI slot. On the front edge of the card you will see a 6-pin auxiliary power connector, as well as a 3-pin connection - I don't know what that one is for, but I'll find out and mention it in the full review.

On the top edge of the card you will notice that there are a series of holes close to the PCI bracket, that's actually where a 26 pin connection like the one we saw on the X1800 XT would go. This connection is something that the manufacturers use for internal testing, so don't worry if it isn't there, you won't need it. On the back of the card we see two dual-link DVI connections and the vent through which the card exhausts warm air. Moving further around the card we can see where the fan plugs in.

Here's a couple shots of the front and back of the card. You can't see any of the memory from the front, and there's no memory on the back side. You'll have to wait for the full review for me to take the cooler off and get some shots underneath.

We'd like to thank Directron.com for donating the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 Motherboard which we used for testing.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Introducing the X1900 Series (R580) / Architecture & New Features
Page 3: The Card (X1900 XTX)
Page 4: Test Setup
Page 5: Benchmarks - Half-Life 2
Page 6: Benchmarks - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Page 7: Benchmarks - F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon
Page 8: Benchmarks - Quake 4
Page 9: Benchmarks - Need for Speed Most Wanted
Page 10: Closing Thoughts

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by J2T on May 31, 2007 - 5:53 am

??? time warp?

2 - Posted by Kurtis on May 31, 2007 - 12:17 pm

i'm sure there was a spam post, then the spam was deleted, leaving a bumped thread. =]

3 - Posted by J2T on June 1, 2007 - 6:07 pm

haha, excuses excuses :)

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