The beautiful and geometry-heavy Codecreatures test tells that ATI GPUs, especially RADEON 9500 PRO, set the pace in the light mode, while Siluro FX 5600 Ultra DT is better with enabled antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. Anyway, none of the graphics cards can provide for an acceptable fps rate in this test.

Conclusion

So, we have benchmarked an ABIT Siluro FX 5600 Ultra DT graphics card. I think it is a well-made product; my only gripe is about the bleak box design and poor accessories. Instead of the interesting, but hardly useful “Earth Viewer” program and the practically useless “Window Blinds” utility, they might have included something like a full version of “Soldier of Fortune II” rather than just a demo. My critical remarks end here, though. All other things – the nice design of the PCB and cooler, fan highlighting, high quality of manufacture, appropriate set of cables and adapters – are good and pleasing. The high overclocking potential of the card may make it popular among overclockers. Modders will surely like the blue fan highlighting as well as its original shape.

As for performance, it is quite enough to play modern games and only weak shader units may become a significant drawback in the future. That’s why ABIT Siluro FX 5600 DT is going to perform slower than cards based on ATI chips in upcoming games. Well, this actually refers to the whole GeForce FX series. Overall, the ABIT Siluro FX 5600 Ultra DT graphics card is a worthy candidate for the AGP slot of your system.

Advantages:

• High quality of manufacture;
• Efficient cooling system;
• Fan highlighting (with a blue LED);
• Good overclocking potential that maintains stable work at the frequencies of the new revision of GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (400/800MHz);
• High performance in modern games and applications.

Disadvantages:

• Although the mounting holes are there, the memory heatsinks are not installed;
• Unsightly box;
• Poor accessories, especially software.