NEWS / Neue Karten von Gainward: Wassergekühlte GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

12.05.2003 06:30 Uhr    Kommentare

Gainward hat drei neue Geforce FX 5900 Karten vorgestellt. Die Karten besitzen Optional oder bei der Ultra/1600 XP schon eine mitgelieferte Wasserkühlung um die enorme Wärmeabgabe in den Griff zu bekommen. die Modellbezeichnungen der Karten sehen folgendermaßen aus:

  • Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”
  • Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”
  • Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1200 XP “Golden Sample”
Wobei sich die ersten 2 Karten nur von der Kühlung unterschiedlich sind. Denn die Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1600 XP CoolFX kommt geht schon ab Werk mit Wasserkühlung über die Ladentheke. Alle Karten haben 256 MB DDR-RAM der mit 445 MHz getaktet ist.

Hier die offizielle Pressemitteilung von Gainward:

Gainward Co., Ltd, the leading manufacturer of high performance 3D graphics and home entertainment accelerators, announces that it will introduce the world’s most powerful series of 3D graphics processor boards based on NVIDIA’s GeForce FX 5900 technology formerly known as NV35 Ultra. The most powerful graphics board of the se-ries; the Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”TM features a hand selected GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, 256 MB of carefully qualified 900 MHz DDR and is priced at € 899 incl. VAT with the integrated Gainward CoolFX water cool-ing and priced at € 699 with a conventional high performance, low noise fan. Both prod-ucts are bundled with an IEEE 1394 FireWire card and a 5.1 PCI sound card with ana-logue and optical connection. The Gainward FX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1200 XP “Golden Sample”TM integrates the GeForce FX 5900, 128MB of 900 MHz DDR and has a recommended retail price of € 549.
The Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”TM takes the graphics environment to a completely new level. Running at 450 plus MHz core clock speed and 850 plus MHz DDR memory speed, the Gainward CoolFX Power-Pack! Model Ultra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”TM is powered by pure adrenaline, de-livering unmatched 3D graphics performance to the PC platform. To further improve the versatility and gaming experience the Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ul-tra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”TM is bundled with a digital video-in IEEE 1394 Fire-Wire daughter card, a high quality 5.1 sound card with both stereo output and optical S/P-DIF output connectors, plus stereo headset.
The revolutionary new NVIDIA CineFX™ engine introduces cinematic-quality spe-cial effects and studio-quality color to the PC. Redefine the limits of both, graphics performance, and visual quality with the Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ul-tra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”TM. – with 8 pipeline performance in combination with 256 bit high speed DDR memory – applications and games will run at higher resolu-tions and at unprecedented performance levels. The amazing GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU also features NVIDIA’s Intellisample™ technology, Z-culling, anisotropic fil-tering and powerful antialiasing for all resolutions. These advances in compression and antialiasing techniques ensure realistic color and smooth edges at all resolutions while maintaining high levels of performance. [...] The Gainward CoolFX PowerPack! Model Ultra/1600 XP “Golden Sample”TM also supports two monitors simultaneously (formerly known as DualHead or TwinView technology) with two independent 400 MHz RAMDACs for office applications, 3D gaming and professional applications such as CAD, DTP, animation, or video editing. The maximum supported resolution for both displays is 2048 x 1536 @ 85Hz. De-pending on the resolution the maximum refresh rate is up to 240 Hz. [...] NVIDIA’s nView™ software offers a comprehensive solution for multi-monitor sup-port, increasing screen real estate for more efficient viewing and switching between multiple active windows. NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) technology provides increased levels of adjustment for conveniently achieving richer colors and brighter, cleaner, and consistent images and text under any lighting conditions. The NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU also introduces the NVIDIA Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) software solution, for accelerating multiple video streams by mov-ing video into the 3D graphics engine. [...] Gainward offers the end user the choice to run Gainward’s “Golden Sample” products at ”Enhanced Performance Settings” (both, faster engine clock AND faster memory clock) which guarantee significantly improved “3D real-world performance” for even higher resolutions at 32 bit color depth.


Features Gainward CoolFX Ultra/1600 XP
“Golden Sample”
Gainward FX Ultra/1600 XP
“Golden Sample”
Gainward FX Ultra/1200 XP
“Golden Sample”
GPU GeForce FX 5900 ultra GeForce FX 5900 ultra GeForce FX 5900
CoolFX Water Cooling Ja Optional Optional
Speicher 256MB 900 (Plus) MHz P DDR 256MB 900 (Plus) MHz P DDR

256MB 900 (Plus) MHz P DDR

Bundle FireWire Card 5.1 Sound Card FireWire Card 5.1 Sound Card -
Empfohlener Preis 899 € 699 € 549 €

Quelle: E-Mail, Autor: Pascal Heller
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