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The Photos

On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at 2560x1920 pixels and then scaled down. The camera used was a Sony DCS-F707 5.1 MegaPixel.

Warning this page is extremely RED :)

There she is people, the Radeon X1950 XTX. Armed with 512 MB gDDR4 memory. It's a beast. This card weighs 840 Gram (yes I really measured it). Next to that it has a two slot cooling solution. That indicates clearly that the card needs much cooling, and it does. The fan disposes tremendous amounts of heat as you can see from the design.

Don't know why, but each time I leave out a photo of the backside of the card people start email me and ask why I did not include it. Okay .. here you go folks, enjoy the toosh.

Here we see the cooler a tad better. The 90nm process obviously allowed a higher clockspeed for this 380 million transistor counting graphics core but that requires, as I am guessing, a lot of voltage and thus heat. The good thing is that the heat is being dumped outside the system keeping your ambient PC temperature and thus other components nice and chilled.

Also two DVI connectors, which both have dual-link support. Single link connections use one TMDS 165Mhz transmitter, while dual links use two. So you can hook up two extremely high resolution monitors at once to the card. You might think hmm is that needed? Yes it is. High-Def screens and high-resolution monitors are lurking around the corner, in fact we'll include some results today at 2560x1600.

The dual link DVI pins effectively double the power of transmission and provide an increase of speed and signal quality; i.e. a DVI single link 60-Hz LCD can display a resolution of 1920 x 1080, while a DVI dual link can display a resolution of 2048 x 1536 or higher.

You have to admit that's a pretty looking cooler.