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PowerColor X600XT PCIe Graphics Card Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Wednesday, 29 September 2004 |
At OCW they have taken a look at the PowerColor X600XT PCIe graphic card. PowerColor is one of the ATI's partner and they have been pushing ATI series of cards. X600XT is their mid range card designed for the general gamers using PCIe interface on the Pentium series LGA775 mainboards. It features 4 parallel pixel pipelines and 2 programmable vertex shaders. It comes with 128MB memory and supports DX9 and OpenGL.
 PowerColor X600XT PCIe Graphics Card
PowerColor has once again delivered one of the first X600XT PCIe cards in the market. This card has pretty good performance for the average gamer. As we can see from the card itself. The design of the card is based on the ATI reference design. This eliminates possible cooling issues as compared to some cards which modified the design. In fact, in our test with aggressive timings, the card still performs very well without fail.
The card's heatsink comes with some plastic red coloured tentacles. I am not sure what is that for. Is it for decorative purposes. Well it doesn't really serve a purpose there I suppose. It also looks weird.
The software bundle comes with the necessary tools like Cyberlink DVD playback and a free game Hitman is included. Overclocking wise, the card is able to cope with up to a 8% overclock as tested in the various benchmarks. Packaging has room for improvement to make it more attractive.
Overall, a good price at a good performance is what casual gamers will go for as not everyone would afford a X800XT just for playing games. The card will definitely be here to stay as more boards will be released with PCIe interface. We would revisit it when we pair it up with an Athlon 64 Socket 754/939 system when available.
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