eVGA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Limited Edition: Experimentation Platform

The e-GeForce FX 5700 Ultra graphics card arrived to our test lab in its sparkling brand-new package, painted up in NVIDIA’s traditional black and green.

The competitive edge of the product is emphasized by the pictures and captions scattered all around the box. A distant relative of Balrog from “The Lord of the Rings” postures in the upper left corner, and the proud words “Dominate Your Games” stretch out right below the name of the product. The lower right corner is dominated by the winged elf-lass Dusk, dressed in leather. She somehow reminded me more of the Nazi girls from Wolfenstein rather than of the innocent sylvan creature called Dawn. The traditional slogan, “The way it’s meant to be played”, goes above, next to the assurance that eVGA is an official distributor of solutions based on NVIDIA’s chips.

The backside of the box has a small transparent window and a brief summary of what the eVGA e-GeForce FX 5700 Ultra has and can do. By the way, the size of the package is an exact match of the one the original ATI RADEON 9800 PRO comes in.

Let us open up the package, take out the protective cover and see the following items:

• e-GeForce FX 5700 Ultra graphics card;
• User manual;
• Warranty and registration cards;
• CD with the Detonator driver version 52.14;
• CD with the NVDVD software player;
• CD with demo-programs, utilities and the demo version of America’s Army;
• CD with Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, full version of the game;
• Two stickers for the system case (bearing the eVGA logo);
• DVI-I-to-D-Sub adapter;
• S-Video cable.

One of the package’s flaps has a curious message suggesting you to contact the tech department of eVGA rather than return the card into the shop, if the card went down.