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Before we take a look at the card, let's take a look at the overall presentation. That means box first.
After the shocking size of the MSI FX5900's box recently, it was a pleasant down to earth experience with the Gainward box for the FX5200 Ultra. I'm not sure I fancy the girl much, but I'm sure there's someone out there that's taken with computer generated cuteness.
The box also gives the spec and feature set away. 128MB of memory, video input as well as TV out and some bundled video editing software are all apparent from the box art. Let's open it up and make sure we've got everything we should have.
We can see the board, a power splitter cable, despite being a less than hungry low clocked 150nm GPU, the CD's, and the pink VIVO cable for getting video data onto and off of your system.
A red coloured DVI to VGA adaptor rounds things off, in keeping with the obvious Gainward colour scheme.
Here's a shot of the VIVO cable, showing both composite and S-Video inputs and outputs.
Being a budget board, it maybe wasn't wise to expect a full software bundle. Bar a driver and utility CD, the only other software is a copy of Intervideo WinCinema. WinCinema looks to be a bundle only product, featuring WinDVD 4 for playing back DVD's, WinRip, for ripping CD's into various audio formats, and finally WinProducer for making movies which includes capturing data from the video input on the card.
So no games bundle, but the software needed to make full use of the card capabilities.
Finally, a look at the card itself. A shot of the board gracing the test rig I think, along with a couple of clickable links if you need more.
Note the memory heatsinks for some overclocking action, the horizontal edge mounting of the molex connector for power, and the mean looking heatsink and fan combination for the GPU. There's heatsinks on the back of the card too, for the back memory modules. Click here to take a look, or here for a look at the front again.
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