Introduction

I recently purchased a new motherboard and processor. The motherboard supported PCI-Express instead of AGP so I had to get a PCI-Express video card. Well our friends over at Geeks.com were nice enough to send us a GeCube Radeon X1600 Pro 512MB video card. This is my first time taking a look at an ATi card, and my first PCI-Express card! So let's get this review started!

Features and Specs:

Here are the basic features and specs of the card...

General Features:
- Powered by ATI RADEON RV530PRO GPU
- 90-nanometer process GPU
- 512 MB DDR2 128-bit memory
- PCI Express x16 slot
- 12 parallel pixel pipelines
- Dual DVI (double Dual-link) + HDTV + D-sub support
- ATI Avivo technology
- CrossFire Ready (software)
- Shader Model 3.0
- SMARTSHADER HD technology
- Support for OpenGL
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0C
- CATALYST software application
- Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX,WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding (including DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray playback), encoding & transcoding.
- HDTV ready

Dual Display Configuration Support:
- Dual DVI
- S-Video TV-Out

Package Includes:
- GeCube Radeon X1600PRO 512MB DDR Video Card
- Drivers CD
- CyberLink PowerDVD 6 2CH software
- DVI to VGA adapter
- Video cable
- S-Video to Composite cable
- User Manual

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