Albatron GeForce FX5700P Turbo Video Card Review
Author: Mike Pengelly
Date: April 27, 2004
Supplied By: Albatron
Price: ~ $150
Introduction
Albatron has created a name for themselves by providing quality video card and motherboard solutions. Today we are putting one of their latest solutions, the FX5700P Turbo, to the test. While this video card doesn’t sport a top of the line graphics engine it does have some refinements that we hope will help to make it a worthy competitor. A combination of a 6 layer PCB and fast DDR ram are employed to try to make this a more stable solution while not taking a chunk out of the consumer’s wallet.
Let’s find out if this video card can prove it’s worth…
Specifications & Features
Features:
Powered by nVIDIA GeForce FX5700 GPU
AGP 8X with AGP Texturing and Fast Writes
CineFX 2.0 Engine Supports DirectX 9.0 & OpenGL1.5
NVIDIA Intellisample High-Resolution Compression Technology
NVIDIA UltraShadow Technology
RAMDACs 400Mhz
D-SUB, TV-Out and DVI ports
Supports nView Technology
Other key specifications:
Graphics Engine: GeForce FX 5700
Memory Size: 128MB DDR
Memory Bus: 128bit
Engine Clock 425MHz
RAMDAC: 650MHz
Max. Resolution: 2048x1536@85Hz
A Closer Look
The 5700P comes in an attractive package and with lots of extras. The user gets software, some cables for TV output (composite and s-video) and a manual. This is pretty nearly the same combination of extras that are offered with the 5700 Ultra video card we reviewed previously.
A closer look at the video card itself shows a pretty normal design on a blue PCB. Albatron has provided a nice looking cooler for this GPU and ram sinks to keep things cool. As mentioned in the introduction, this video card is designed around a 6 layer PCB which helps to decrease noise and increase the stability of operation.
This video card like many of its counterparts has one 15 pin VGA connector and 1 DVI connector along with an S-Video connector.
And here are a few more pictures as we pan around the card for a closer look. You will notice that this card does not require external power.
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