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Review: GeCube Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 FZ Cool Fan HDCP Edition

by Josh Blodwell on 9 March 2007, 08:22

Tags: GeCube Radeon X1950, Gecube

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Presentation, bundle, warranty







It's so shiny. If you ever wanted a box of your very own to polish this could be the one for you. As you can tell by the box art the card is best for everything. It doesn't make tea, though, maybe that's to be added in the next iteration.

Here's what's included:

Items User's Manual
PowerDVD 6 2 ch. OEM
Drivers CD
1 x DVI dongle
1 x DVI-HDMI dongle
HDTV-Out (Component) lead
6-pin PCI-E to Molex adaptor
Combined Composite and S-Video TV-Out lead








The price of the FZ Cool is already high enough; at £165 it’s almost as expensive as a GeForce 8800 GTS 320MiB! This effectively takes it out of the midrange price bracket; so it's a good thing GeCube hasn’t added any games to its bundle and pushed the price higher. All you receive in the box is what's required to make the card work in your PC, and the obligatory copy of PowerDVD, which gets into more boxes than 007.

GeCube, however, is rather remiss in not including any overclocking tools when you consider the cooling efforts made with respect to the core.

Warranty

The warranty on the card is two years’ worth and based on return to reseller. The warranty itself is not transferrable, so if you sell the card the new owner won't be able to make any use of it, unfortunately. Please bear this in mind if you're buying one of these cards second-hand.