Digit-Life has put up a review on the Inno3D Tornado GeForce FX5900 graphics card. It's a pretty nice looking card, the heatsink fan has two fan with LEDs, and the card uses Hynix memory!
- Noname cards based on the GeForce FX 5800/5900 and RADEON 9700 PRO/9800 PRO could be often seen in price-lists. The experience, for example with cards assembled on the GeForce2 MX/4 MX, showed that noname is a lottery. Clock speeds can be cut down and the memory bus narrowed. What is noname in the High-End sector?
We know that NDIDIA placed orders for the cards of the GeForce FX 5800 level with third companies which then made finished products. Such cards were purchased by vendors, packed in their boxes and delivered to the retail market, or they were supplied in the OEM packages for SI, i.e. for assemblers (HP, Dell etc.). The assemblers either refused to buy them or sent such cards directly to the gray market. This is how the market got flooded with the GeForce FX 5800 cards which are now selling as noname products.
Noname cards based on the GeForce FX 5900 passed a similar way, as well as the RADEON 9700/9800, with the only exception that such cards are made on well-known PC Partner's factories (compared to NVIDIA's secret ones).
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Review
Aug 30, 2003, 10:23 PM
