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Review: Leadtek PX7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO Extreme 256MB and SAPPHIRE RADEON HD X1800 XT 512MB

by Tarinder Sandhu on 11 November 2005, 14:20

Tags: Leadtek PX7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO Extreme, Leadtek, Sapphire

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Leadtek GeForce PX7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO Extreme bundle and presentation



It's of little surprise that the external packaging is identical to the regular version's, save for the Extreme and SLI-Ready stickers here.



The accompanying bundle is also carried on over from the regular GTX card. That means full copies of the GPU-bashing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. SC:CT is still a fairly recent title that retails at around Ā£20. It also highlights the power of top-end cards as it contains a gaggle of Shader Model 3.0 features. VIVO hardware is complemented by ULEAD's software, which encompasses its Video Studio 8 SE DVD and DVD MovieFactory 3SE, as well as the ubiquitous COOL 3DSE.

The driver CD contained NVIDIA's ForceWare 78.01 set, WinFast Entertainment Center to complement the card's VIVO functionality, an online manual, Muvee3, CyberLink's PowerDVD 6 (2-channel) player, and, thankfully, WinFox 2.0, the company's overclocking/tweaking software. It's an all-in-one piece of software that lets you explicitly control fan speed from, on this model, 0-2,200RPM. Anything below 1,000RPM is generally inaudible and effective enough to cool the card at its pre-overclocked 490/1250MHz settings. It also acts as an overclocking tool and you can use it to manipulate many of the options offered in the main control panel, too.

Hardware-wise, there's another bunching of cabling here, as Leadtek adds in Component, S-Video-In/Out in the same adapter. A couple of DVI dongles and a 6-pin PCIe connector round off this particular package that misses out on S-Video and RCA extension cables. Otherwise, though, it's decent enough.