Application:

Radeon 9800XT Gold

Provided by:

Celestica

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Review by:

Scott

Edited by:

Matt

Review date:

May 16th, 2004
   
 

In the box...

     It looks like Celestica was out to pass some saving on to the customer by using a plane labeled box. Nothing fancy here, but it's what is in the box that counts...like a coupon for a FREE COPY OF HALF LIFE 2!!! Yaahoo! Other than that, there are the normal things you would expect like a drivers disk, cables and adapters.

Up Close

     Now let's take a closer look at the card itself.

     I had already mentioned that this card comes with a kick butt cooling system. The cooler is solid copper with a clear plastic cover which pipes cooling air across the entire cooler. The cooler also contacts the RAM which eliminates the need for separate RAM sinks.

The bottom of the card has a solid copper heat plate that also covers all the memory chips.