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It's hard to believe there are any gaps left in the graphics card market, but somehow people keep finding them.
The latest nVidia offering for the mid-range market is the GeForce FX5900XT that, along with the recently released FX5700Ultra, is aimed at taking on ATI's 9600XT.
The 5900XT has slower core (400MHz) and memory clock (700MHz, 350MHz DDR) speeds than the FX5700 Ultra (475MHz and 900MHz respectively), but it uses a 256-bit wide memory bus.
This gives it a peak memory bandwidth of 22.4GB/s, compared with the 14.5GB/s of the FX5700 Ultra's 128-bit bus. There are two pixel pipelines with eight textures per clock.
AOpen uses the FX5900XT for its latest graphics card, the Aeolus FX5900XT-DV128. Cleanly laid out, the board is an nVidia reference design, but with AOpen's own design of heatsink and cooler.
The heatsink is not the usual huge one that's common these days, but a compact design that just covers the GPU and blows air over the memory chips. The heatsink is confined to one side of the board, and there are no memory chips on the reverse.
As with most AOpen cards there isn't much software bundled with the FX5900XTDV128, but why bother paying for games you are never going use? Apart from the driver CD all you get is InterVideo WinCinema.
The hardware included is limited to a DVI-I/VGA adaptor and composite video cable.
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