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Gigabyte Radeon
X1300 Pro
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Here we can
see the card installed in a fully built system enclosed in a mid-tower case. As I mentioned before, we
typically write-off the expansion slot directly under the video card, and with a two
slot cooler we pretty much know that's going to happen anyway. But in this
situation it might be wise to bring the count up to two. As we can see in this
picture, the PCI slot right under heat pipe cooler is very close. Luckily, card
like the Sound Blaster X-Fi (shown on bottom) don't have any components on the
'top' side of the card. However, with the heat that will be radiating from the
heat-pipe, it would be wise to give it all the breathing room you can. The
up-side to this is that the card requires no external power connections, so
that's one less thing to deal with if you're thinking of building inside a small
form factor or other space challenged enclosure.
Test System.....
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Motherboard |
A8N32-SLI Deluxe |
| CPU |
AMD
Athlon64
San Diego Core 3700+ |
Storage
(Optical) |
Toshiba
1612 DVD (IDE)
Plextor Plexwriter Premium (IDE) |
Storage
Hard Drive |
Hitachi
Desktar
7K80 SATA II |
| Multi-Media |
Creative
SoundBlaster
X-Fi Platinum |
| Memory |
Corsair XMS
PC-4400 |
The
Gigabyte GV-RX13P256DE-RH is clocked at 600/400
(DDR800) which is right on-target for the X1300 Pro. I tried to use the ATI
Tool to find the maximum stable core and memory clock speeds,
but the tool's own
overclock tests were no help. It picked 631Mhz as the maximum core speed,
but no benchmark would complete its full run. During the memory speed probe,
[ATI Tool] ramped up the memory clock speed to 415Mhz and the display became
unusable, resulting in a PC reboot. In short, even though this card does use
a very large heat-pipe for cooling, the core won't overclock very far at all
- so all tests will be conducted with the default 600Mhz core speed. The
card's memory is much the same way, anything beyond the 400Mhz (DDR800) mark
produced a very unstable image, so that will be tested at default as well.
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CPU: 2200Mhz
Memory: 200 Mhz |
CPU
2800Mhz
Memory: 550Mhz |
3D Mark 03
Raw Score |
6058 |
6201 |
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GT1: Wings of Fury |
173.5
fps |
179.4 fps |
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GT2: Battle of Proxycon |
41.7
fps |
42.1 fps |
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GT3: Troll's Lair |
37.5
fps |
38.2 fps |
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GT4: Mother Nature |
38.3
fps |
38.4 fps |
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CPU: 2200Mhz
Memory: 200 Mhz |
CPU
2800Mhz
Memory: 550Mhz |
3D Mark 05
Raw Score |
2889 |
3000 |
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GT1: Return to Proxycon |
13.4
fps |
13.9 fps |
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GT2: Firefly Forest |
8.8
fps |
9.1 fps |
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GT3: Canyon Flight |
13.2
fps |
13.6 fps |
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CPU: 2200Mhz
Memory: 200 Mhz |
CPU
2800Mhz
Memory: 550Mhz |
3D Mark 06
Raw Score |
1312 |
1332 |
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GT1: Return to Proxycon |
3.415
fps |
3.340 fps |
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GT2: Firefly Forest |
4.292fps |
4.332 fps |
HDR/SM3.0
Raw Score |
518 |
517 |
| HDR1: Canyon Flight |
4.669 fps |
4.687 fps |
| HDR2: Deep Freeze |
5.666 fps |
5.656 fps |
Beginning with 3D Mark 03, the performance of the X1300 Pro looks pretty
respectable. The card is able to post frame rates higher than (the mandatory
for seamless gaming) 30fps in each and every category. The performance
margin shuts down once you step into DirectX 9.0C tests of 3D Mark 05. To
simply put it, the card doesn't have the horsepower and just totally gets
pummeled by the most modern benchmark utility; 3D Mark 06.
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