PowerColor X1300 HyperMemory 2 PCIe Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by SidneyWong @ 2006-02-20

Sales of video cards, manufacturers depend on high volume mainstream cards. They know gamers are no different than exotic car or sports car owners, who are in fact the minority in car ownership. Today, we are looking at just one of these video cards, PowerColor X1300 PCIe with 128MB onboard, HyperMemory? 2 supporting 512MB in total in 64-bit.

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Closer Look

Closer Look:

The half size card will fit nicely in a HTPC.

Madshrimps (c)


Madshrimps (c)


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For the curious minded the 90nm GPU (RV515) and Hynis DDR2 Memory.

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Madshrimps (c)


Madshrimps (c)


I was informed after the sample arrived by PowerColor that this model will be called X1300 HyperMemory 2 supporting 512MB, and will be factory overclocked with a core running at 600Mhz instead of 450MHz default when the card arrives in retailers shortly afterward.

Let's see how it performs in both synthetic benchmarks and real world games ->
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