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Diamond Viper X1900 XT 512MB PCI-E Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
Coming from techPowerUp! is a review on the Diamond Viper X1900 XT 512MB PCIe graphics card. I received the Diamond Viper X1900 XT sometime back and I must say at the time the Diamond Viper X1900 XT was the lowest priced option and is still one of the lowest priced cards available today. It's well known that a majority of ATI cards are manufactured in the Sapphire factories and are distributed to other ATI video card OEM's. Since most of these offerings are referred to as ATI reference PCB, we'll lay a Powercolor Radeon X1900 XT along side the Diamond offering. The Diamond Viper X1900 XT sports a nice picture of ATI's Ruby on the stock heatsink. The stock fan is fairly large to meet the cooling needs of this powerful card.
 Diamond Viper X1900 XT 512MB PCI-E Review
As already know by most, the Radeon X1900 series come from the 90 nanometre
technology and stands for high performance in the current gaming titles. The
Diamond Viper X1900 XT is no less and is build around the R580 chip that comes
clocked at 625MHz core and 1450MHz memory clock speed. On top of that it
features 48 shader units to deliver stuning performance. The Samsung memory
chips used on the Viper X1900 XT are actually they highly rated 1.1ns versions,
which can be clocked upto 1800MHz according to the specifications. So on this
some extra performance can be reached.
Overclocking the Radeon X1K series
cards is a little different from older generation cards. The cards have more
options, and can be easier in certain ways to overclock, but more complex in
others. With options to adjust voltages, there is little need to do hardmods to
the cards in order to gain the extra juice needed for that nice overclock you
dream of. For most enthusiasts the attention is now focused on cooling. When it
comes to overclocking the Radeon X1900 series, there are numerous choices of
software you can use. ATITool will be our choice to use for
overclocking.
Needless to say the Diamond Viper X1900 XT was no slouch
and played games at high resolutions with ease. This in no way takes away from
the fact that the Diamond Viper X1900 XT itself is a solid performer and does
provide a new level to gaming. I like that Diamond made the effort to
distinguish their card from just another plain ATI reference PCB. I would
recommend the Diamond Viper X1900 XT, which competes in a highly competitive OEM
market.
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