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Gainward FX 5800 Ultra: First review at [M] , Your next upgrade?

Videocards/VGA Reviews by jmke @ 2003-04-28

We check out what a brandnew Geforce FX Ultra 5800 can do for your XP2000+ system. We compare it to the Geforce 4 Ti4200, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. And last but not least we upgrade the CPU to a XP2600+ and see if the GF4 Ti4200 gets enough extra juice to keep up with the big guns!

Other Gainward FX goodies

Gainward's Goodies:

Gainward delivers this Geforce FX with a truckload of hardware! Not only do you find the Geforce FX in the box (duh!) but also the following items:

A 5.1-soundcard with an onboard chip from C-Media, it features a Digital In/Out, Game/Midi-port and a Coaxial In/Out.

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What's a soundcard without.. yes indeed: headphones

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They stick right into your ear, but the sound quality is nothing to be impressed about. I had to turn the volume way up to be able to hear the music or game sounds. This sort of headphone would have suited more if you were to take your FX on your bike and listen to the music while peddling around. But for long periods of use (LAN party) these things just can’t be used comfortably

The FX features a S-Video out and using this plug you can go coaxial too

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For those who fancy dual monitor setups, Gainward has provided a DVI->VGA converter in the same colour scheme as the rest of the card

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What does a Fire wire card have to do with a video card you might think? Well... "Video"-editing = "Video"-card? :)
A nice welcome to the whole bundle and it also includes a Fire wire cable to connect to any DV capable device

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last but not least you get a collection of software and drivers to make the package a nice whole. Video editing software and Duke Nukem Manhattan project (to stress the FX for sure ;) ) are also present in the CD-bundle.

Enough with the chit-chat, how does it perform compared to the ATI and Ti4200, find out on the next page...

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