Introduction
This FX card we are reviewing tonite might be the best buy you can get for your hard earned money. The ATI Radeon 9600 and the FX5600 seems to be the “get the most for the least amount of money” cards out there 
We are going to have a look at a FX5600 card that Leadtek sent us. Let’s see how it performs while overclocked and under some heavy testing as with Unreal Tournamen2003 etc
About Leadtek:
Founded in 1986, Leadtek Research, Inc. is a research and development company that is specialized in the design and manufacture of a wide range of high performance graphics and video solutions.Award-winning products in Leadtek’s Computer Group include the WinFast Series 3D graphics accelerators (mainstream and workstation-class), motherboards and multimedia cards. Products in its Communications Group include video telephony, surveillance and GPS solutions. Leadtek has always been focused on intensive R&D, and its ISO9001 manufacturing facility has been recognized as an industry quality leader. Leadtek is committed to a win-win strategy of identifying and meeting the needs of its users, thereby sharing a mutual success with its customers.
Specifications on the product:
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 GPU
CineFX Engine
Intellisample Technology
High-Precision Graphics
nView Multi-display Technology
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
AGP 8X
0.13 Micron Process Technology
400MHz RAMDACs
1.3 Billion texels/ sec fill rate
81 Million vertices/sec
8.8 GB/sec memory bandwidth
16 texels per pixel with 8 textures applied per clock
4 Pixels per Clock Rendering Pipeline
Architected for Cg
Microsoft� DirectX�9.0 Optimizations and Support
New 64-phase Video Scaler
OpenGL�1.4 Optimizations and Support
Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)
High-performance, high-precision 3D rendering engine
On-board DVI support up to 1600×1200 resolution
On-board TV-out support up to 1024×768 resolution
Integrated Full Hardware MPEG-2 Decoder
Vivid NTSC/PAL TV-out support with flicker filter
Software:
Ulead Video studio SE DVD
Ulead cool 3D SE
WinFast PVR
WinFastDVD
WinFox II
Cult 3D
Coloreal Embedded
Coloreal Visual
Coloreal Bright
Gun Metal
Big Mutha Truckers
Features can be found here
The product:
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A very nice package from Leadtek. On the back of the box we see tons of features that can be used with this card. For example it has MyVivo feautures that have Video capture, Time shifting and PIP (Picture in picture) feature.
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In the package everything was well packed and well protected. First we have the manuals. After checking the manual I could see that it was easy to understand and well made for n00bs and hardcore users also.
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Tons of software were included on these 4 cds. Ulead Video studio SE DVD Ulead cool 3D SE WinFast PVR WinFastDVD WinFox II Cult 3D Coloreal Embedded Coloreal Visual Coloreal Bright Gun Metal Big Mutha Truckers
Then on the right picture we got a S-video cable, Av cable and Leadtek has included a DVI-to-CRT connection.
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