Albatron FX5700P Turbo

The video card market can be a really confusing place. Even with only the two names nVidia and ATI to worry about, they each have so many chipsets with their own spin-offs, that it quickly floods a webpage with complex item descriptions. The general rule is that the larger the model number, the higher performance you can expect. Until we start seeing those words like Ultra, Turbo, and Deluxe slapped behind a model number. When money isn't a problem, then just throw those bills at the largest and most expensive box you can find and you should be good to go. What -- You're on a budget and don't' want to spend $500 on a video card that will only be worth $75 in 180 days? Join the club buddy, there are a good number of people who feel exactly the same way you do.

" I don't play too many games.... " This is the comment that we hear most often as custom system builders. Obviously, we want to give the customer as much pixel power as we can and still stay within budget for the whole project. Most serious gamers that are looking to upgrade or buy a new PC know and understand that the video card is a very important and expensive piece of equipment that can not be cut short in the quest for blazing frame rates. But when we hear someone say they don't spend much time playing video games, we know we can throttle back on the video card somewhat in favor of bulking-up the system elsewhere. Finding the sweet spot between price and performance is always tough, but companies like Albatron are making it easy!

The Albatron FX5700P Turbo is based on the feature rich: nVidia GeForce FX·5700 chipset. There are four features most notable for the FX5700 chipset. In my gamers opinion, one of the first and foremost is Direct-X 9 compatibility! The Direct-X 9 club is fairly small as far as the number of compliant video cards and available software titles that utilize it. However, that number is rapidly growing and the Albatron FX5700P Turbo is already on the dance floor.

	CineFX 2.0 Engine
	The second-generation CineFX 2.0 engine powers advanced pixel and vertex shader processing and true 128-bit color precision. Delivering double the floating-point pixel shader power of the previous CineFX engine, CineFX 2.0 produces a visible performance boost through its more efficient execution of pixel shader programs.
	UltraShadow Technology
	Powers the next-generation of complex, realistic shadow effects by accelerating shadow generation. Accurate shadows that effectively mimic reality without bogging down frame rates are one of the keys to more believable game environments.
	Intellisample HCT
	Second-generation Intellisample technology delivers up to a 50-percent increase in compression efficiency for compressing color, texture, and z-data, and powers unprecedented visual quality for resolutions up to 1600 x 1280.

Other features and specifications

     ► 128 MB of onboard dedicated graphics memory
   ► AGP 8x/4x AGP 3.0 Interface
    ► Digital Vibrance Control
    ► GPU based on .13 Micron Process Technology
   ► Integrated NTSC/PAL encoder supporting resolutions up to 1024x768
    ► DVD & HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080 resolutions
     ► Dual, integrated 400MHZ RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 @ 85HZ
     ► Dual internal TMDS encoders (one single and one Dual Link) able to drive next-generation flat panel
         displays with resolutions up to 1600x1200