first impressions

The package in which this video card arrived is quite original, when opening the big box we ended up with this can:



Let's take a closer look at the card:



Sparkle follows the nVidia reference design layout and cooling, adding a "golden" touch to the whole:






Thermal compound between the heatsink and memory to improve the heat transfer:




This video card takes power directly from your PSU and requires you to hook a 4-pin connector to the card, the included pass-through cable enables you to do this while not losing any connectors.




One of the features of the high end FX cards has been incorporated into the FX5700U, you can check the GPU core and ambient temperature by checking one of the display’s control panels:




Time for some benchmarks I'd say ->