| #757 - Generic x1600Pro Crossfire |
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| Written by Zach Jeffers | |||||||||
| Saturday, 18 November 2006 | |||||||||
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A Closer Look: First you will find that the included adapters are small and plug directly into the video cards' S-Video output. You can then use the included Composite cable to connect your television or other devices.  Taking a look at the video cards, you will see that they are not very large, have a green PCB and an aluminum heat sink and fan. There are no heat sinks on the back memory modules like on the front. For comparison, I have also placed one of the x1600s next to an Albatron 6600. The x1600 is a tad bit smaller.    At the back of the x1600 Pros you will find a 25-Pin VGA out, an S-Video out and a DVI-D out. This is a pretty standard layout these days. At the side, you can see the aluminum heat sink and integrated fan.   A closer look at the heat sink shows us that there are 46 fins varying in length an that the entire heat sink expands out to cover the memory chips. The heat sink is not very smooth but rather it is fairly ruff and raw. The heat sink does not physically make contact with the memory modules, but there is a piece of thermal foam tape to connect the two. This is done on all four memory chips on the front side of the card. Next to the where the heat sink's fan lead connects to the PCB, there is a jumper to select your S-Video output's protocol. By default these were set to PAL, which here in the states, we use NTSC.    Look at the back of the x1600 Pro, you will find that there isn't much to look at. There are the second set of memory chips, and the mounting hardware for the heat sink. These are simply four, spring loaded, screws. On the back you will find the SKU sticker for the video card.    |
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