LeadTek's WinFast A180 is a AGP 8X ready video card based on the NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX chipset. Typically of LeadTek is the inclusion of many an additional feature and this package is of no exception. The video card has 64Mb memory and a video in decoder giving complete recording capabilities (VIVO). A good quality heatsink is installed and several additional leads are provided; including the high quality S-video as used with LeadTek's Cinema product (based upon NVIDIA's Personal Cinema unit).
The LeadTek A180 is not a high-end gamers card but comes up trumps for multi-use functionality. The ability to use nView and video-in is a big plus for such a cheap card and it's software and game bundles place it in front as the best GeForce 4 MX440 package we have seen to date. Admittedly we at nvmax.com dislike the GeForce 4 MX chipset for its lack of pixel and vertex shaders but LeadTek have almost hidden it in feast of a package at a stompingly good price.
NVMAX
Feb 5, 2003, 07:39 PM
