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Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review

Date: 2005-1-12

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   IntroductionBy now you should be aware that the RADEON X700 series is ATI's new midrange graphics card lineup on the PCI Express interface. However despite the launch and availability of these ...

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Further Details Of The Card

Well we aren't exactly dissecting the card, but here are further hardware details and some nice touches to the ASUS graphics card:-

Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
A close up of the ducted cooling system on the ASUS Extreme AX600XT/HDTV graphics card.


Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
The side view of the heatsink reveals the smooth curved fin design, which offers slightly less resistance than if it were a normal block of heatsink with straight fins.


Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
Super bright LEDs light up when the card is in operation.


Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
Although the cooler is ducted, it is very easy to maintain it because the duct can be easily slid out.


Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
Taking the cooling unit out, we can see that the forward RAM chips used thermal pads as the contact interface to the heatsink.


Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
Unlike most other graphics cards, ASUS used a carefully engineered pad of the right thickness to surround the VPU. This will prevent the core from getting chipped should there be any bad handling of the graphics card.


Asus Extreme AX600XT/HTVD Review
The RAM used on the card was Hynix 2.2ns memory and it looks to have good overclocking headroom since the default RAM clock (740MHz DDR) is much lower than its potential (900MHz DDR).






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