Bundle
The card and the bundle are fairly well protected from shipping damage, though the box might come out looking a little rough around the edges.
It'd be rude not to have specs and so forth on the box now, wouldn't it?
The PowerColor X850 Pro has a 6-pin power connector, so there's a 4-pin to 6-pin adapter supplied, should it be required. Interestingly, the two Molex connectors are of different genders. One female to plug a PSU connector in, and one male to let you plug another device in. Adapters shipped with GeForce 6800GTs feature two female connectors; no run through and the suggestion that you need to draw power from two of the PSU's Molex connectors.
For video connectivity, there's an S-Video and a composite cable, along with component output support. There's no breakout box, so if you're using the VIVO features of the card you'll have a spaghetti-like cabling setup protruding from your graphics card. There is a DVI to DSUB converter so that you can hook up a regular CRT through the DVI port if required.
PowerColor ship their bundled software in the form of a 'Power Pack'. This includes the driver disk, a collection of CyberLink applications for DVD playback, video editing, DVD mastering; what you'd need to get started with the card's VIVO functionality, plus 1C Maddox's Pacific Fighters flight combat sim game.
Just the one game in the bundle. A little on the light side, then? It all depends on whether flight sims are up your street. If they are, then you'll probably enjoy Pacific Fighters. HEXUS.gaming did a review of Pacific Fighters last year, finding a few faults, many of which have since been fixed, meaning you should make sure the game is patched to the latest version. We must ask whether the game is really a valuable addition to the bundle, as flight simmers will probably already have it.
There's sufficient in the bundle to let you utilise the VIVO functionality of the card. The same is true for the software. However, the single game will appeal to a smaller bracket of gamers than some of the games you'll see in other bundles.
