Package and Accessories

This is the box the GeCube Radeon X1900 XTX comes to the retail market in.

The moderate-sized cardboard box is painted black and red colors; red-haired Ruby with a katana in hand and outlined in a flash of lightning is pictured on the front of the box. A sticker in the bottom right corner tells you there is a full version of the 3D tactical shooter Delta Force: Xtreme inside. The package looks all right, but lacks any catching details in our eyes. It may make it difficult for the card to attract a potential customer in a shop. The box contains the following, besides the graphics card:

• User manual
• Two DVI-I à D-Sub adapters
• VIVO splitter (S-Video and RCA)
• YPbPr splitter
• External power splitter
• S-Video cable
• RCA cable
• CD with drivers
• CD with CyberLink PowerDVD 6
• CyberLink CD with PowerDirector Pro 2.5 and Medi@Show SE
• CD with Delta Force: Xtreme

There’s nothing extraordinary here, but you get everything you really need to install and use your GeCube Radeon X1900 XTX. The user manual is without any extras, but provides all the necessary information. The choice of the included game is somewhat questionable. Delta Force: Xtreme, although belongs to quite a remarkable series, doesn’t stand out among a lot of other similar projects. It is also a rather out-dated title, having been announced about one year ago, and cannot serve to demonstrate the capabilities of today’s graphics processors.

Curiously enough, the power adapter is like those included with Nvidia’s graphics cards, i.e. with two Molex connectors. All cards with ATI’s GPUs on board have previously been shipped with an adapter that had one Molex plug. It makes sense, considering the Radeon X1900 XTX can draw over 70 watts from the external connector. The connection resistance is two times smaller with the two connectors instead of one. This helps to avoid overheat and make the connection more reliable. Well, many modern power supplies are originally equipped with one or two cables for PCI Express graphics cards, so the mentioned adapter may not be necessary to you at all.

The rest of the accessories included with the GeCube Radeon X1900 XTX graphics card are quite ordinary and we have no complaints about them.