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MSI RX2600XT Diamond 512 Graphics Card: A Jewel of HD 2600 XT Carats (page 2)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 10/19/2007 | 09:16 AM ]

Package and Accessories

As usual, the card came to us in its retail packaging with all the accessories the manufacturer thought it proper to put in. The medium-size box has a handy handle and looks like that:

There is nothing exceptional about its design that follows MSI’s traditional style. The left part of the box with the company’s name and logo imitates polished metal. There is a row of labels with technical information on the right. As opposed to the NX8600GTS-T2D256E-HD-OC whose package had a picture of a fantasy warrior, this box is embellished with a cyborg girl, which is quite a hackneyed figure, too.

Inside the wrapper there is the main box that contains the card, firmly fixed in a foam-plastic tray, and accessories:

• DVI-I→D-Sub adapter;
• DVI-I→D-HDMI adapter;
• YPbPr splitter;
• S-Video/Composite splitter;
• S-Video cable;
• Brief installation guide;
• CD disk with drivers.

So, there is everything you need to make full use of your RX2600XT except for a flexible connector necessary for building a CrossFire configuration. Mainstream graphics card, like the described product from MSI, are but seldom used in such tandems, so that’s not a great problem. The user manual is a traditional poster, which is a rather inconvenient format, but there is additionally a brochure with all the information the user may need.

The packaging of the RX2600XT Diamond 512 deserves a good word for its quality and practicality if not for its design. There are no special bonuses among the accessories, yet the kit contains everything you want to use the card in a modern multimedia system with HDMI support.