PowerColor Radeon X800 GT Review
The Radeon X800 GT from PowerColor
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PowerColor is a brand name from Tul. You can see Radeon X800 GT from this manufacturer on Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 1: PowerColor Radeon X800 GT.
Figure 2: PowerColor Radeon X800 GT, back view.
We disassembled the video card heatsink to take a look, see Figure 3. We were curious to see if this big heatsink touched the memory chips or not.
Figure 3: Video card with its heatsink detached.
The heatsink does not touch the memory chips, in Figure 4 we show this better.
Figure 4: The heatsink does not touch the memory chips.
This video card uses 2 ns GDDR3 memory chips from Samsung which can run up to 1 GHz, according to the manufacturer. Since this video card accesses the memory at 986 MHz, there is very little room for memory overclocking inside the memory’s specifications. But of course you can try overclock it over its specs.
Figure 5: 2 ns GDDR3 memory chip used by Radeon X800 GT from PowerColor.
This video card has two DVI connectors, allowing you to use two video monitors on your PC. The board comes with two DVI-to-VGA adapters, so you can transform these outputs into standard VGA outputs.
On Figure 6 you can see all cables and adapters that come with this video card.
Figure 6: Cables and adapters that come with Radeon X800 GT from PowerColor.
This video card comes with one complete game, Hitman Contracts.
Before going to our benchmarking results, let’s recap this video card main features.