march 17 2010 review by overclock3d
With its length of just 17cm this card is ready for a Mini ITX form factor Home Theatre PC. The rear panel shows three connectors DVI, HDMI and Displayport. There's no DVI-to-VGA adapter in the bundle. The new Displayport interface is able to show your desktop/games on multiple displays using ATI's Multi-Monitor Technology Eyefinity, there's no Active Displayport Adapter in the bundle for people that want to use EyeFinity. The review has a dedicated page with results for this new Multi-Monitor Technology.
Box Contents: In the well decorated box with it's key features listed on the front you'll find a driver disc and an easy install guide and finally a "DO NOT DISTURB" doorknob handle.
Conclusion:
The XFX extras are
Multi-Monitor support in this class, the cooling solution is single slot so it can be used in smaller cases. The performance can be compared to the GeForce 8800 and Radeon HD 3800 series. This Relatively Quiet graphics card has a Low Power Consumption and a Reasonable Performance, but its price tag is a bit to high.
Test Setup: Processor: Core i3 530 Dual Core Processor @ 2.93GHz Motherboard: Biostar TH55XE H55 DDR3 Memory: 2x2GB Corsair PC3-12800y OS: 64 bits Windows 7.
Overclocking: Using the ATI overdrive you the maximum OC settings are 850MHz for the GPU Core and 1050MHz for the Memory, by using these setting the reviewers gained 9.6% GPU speed and 5% memory speed.
Benchmarks: 3dMarkVantage, 3D Mark 2006, Left4 Dead, Crysis warhead, MS Flight Simulator 10, DiRT2.