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What is a Geforce 5600XT?
I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a
Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? Thanks! Steve |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:28:05 +1300 in
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, "Steve Lawrence" wrote: I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? It exists (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_9438.html) but WTF it is I don't know. You may be interested in http://www.leadtek.com/graphic.html to see that the card advertised is not in their current lineup, which suggests end of line stock, hence the atrractive price. |
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From what I can tell, they are 5600s with lower core and memory clock. I'm
guessing they are just selling off the ones which didn't quite make the cut the first time round. "Sith Lord" bouncer@localhost wrote in message ... On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:28:05 +1300 in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, "Steve Lawrence" wrote: I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? It exists (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_9438.html) but WTF it is I don't know. You may be interested in http://www.leadtek.com/graphic.html to see that the card advertised is not in their current lineup, which suggests end of line stock, hence the atrractive price. |
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"Steve Lawrence" wrote in message ...
I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? Thanks! Steve I checked at the only Leadtek A310's are Non Ultra's or Ultra's. So i'm sure these guys try to sell you a non-ultra card. And since ATI uses XT as a positive sign they hope they can use to sell card, even though XT has no meaning regarding this card. They just wish to trick you into thinking you are buying a FX 5600 Ultra while it's just a Non Ultra! |
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"Steve Lawrence" wrote in message ...
I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? Thanks! Steve I've contacted those guys and asked about the case. Maybe I get anwser..maybe... after all probably they are screwing around anyway! |
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"Steve Lawrence" wrote in message ...
I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? Thanks! Steve Wel Wel Wel, it seemingly is an existing card, but probably Leadtek doesn't shows the card because it's rather.. ahum.. ashamed of it. Is the message I got NVIDIA does make XT Chips http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_9438.html Leadtek does name its chips that way It's kind of a confusing thing David === So they agree with their possible customers that it's rather a wasp nest... |
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Thanks for your help, everyone - looks like I'll avoid this card!
Steve "Dark Avenger" wrote in message om... "Steve Lawrence" wrote in message ... I am looking at buying a Geforce 5600 and have come across a board called a Leadtek Geforce FX A310 XT which is says uses the Geforce FX 5600XT chipset - yet neither the nvidia website nor the Leadtek website mentions anything about this chip? Here is a link to the product I am looking at: http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=118902 This is a NZ website so the price you see in in NZ dollars. There are around 60 US cents to the NZ dollar so this board is quite cheap, in fact quite a bit cheaper than non 'XT' 5600 boards. Anyone able to help me out here? Thanks! Steve Wel Wel Wel, it seemingly is an existing card, but probably Leadtek doesn't shows the card because it's rather.. ahum.. ashamed of it. Is the message I got NVIDIA does make XT Chips http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_9438.html Leadtek does name its chips that way It's kind of a confusing thing David === So they agree with their possible customers that it's rather a wasp nest... |
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:40:21 GMT, Darthy
scribbled: JESUS!!! What is with NVIDIA? They want to drive away THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS?! Make more confusing products? What will the GF 6 series will be like? "Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra XT" ??? 5200 - 64bit 5200 - 128bit 5200 - 128bit 256mb 5200 - ultra 5600 5600 xt 5600 Ultra (orginal) 5600 Ultra (current / FC) 5700 5700 Ultra 5800 5800 Ultra 5900 5900 se 5900 ultra 5950 5950 Ultra Almost as bad as ATI! 9000 9000 Pro 9000 AIW 9100 9200SE 9200 9200SE AIW 9200 AIW 9500 9500 Pro 9600SE 9600 9600 Pro 9600XT 9600 AIW 9700 9700 Pro 9700 Pro 256MB 9800SE 9800 9800 Pro 9800 Pro 256MB 9800XT Ouch! And that's just the 9XXX series... To be fair, this is more or less Sapphire's list of cards, not ATI's, but ATI definitely makes all of these and possibly more. Arrrrrrrrrgh?! Imagine the 6 line, just the low end: Nvidia SFX 6200 Nvidia SFX 6200 se Nvidia SFX 6200 XT Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra XT Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra mx Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra se Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra PCI-EX And of course, everyone's soon to be favorite: Gainward Nvidia SFX 6200 Ultra XT Pro Power Pack Plus GTS (which is really a Nvidia SFX 6200 XT) And at the rate Nvidia going, ALL of these would be SLOWER than the 5600 and some 5200 cards. If you ask me, both companies are diluting their product lines to such a degree that most consumers simply don't know what to get any more, so they pick something randomly from the middle. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss the days of having few products to choose from. VooDoo 2 8MB or VooDoo 2 12MB. VooDoo3 2000, or VooDoo3 3000... TNT2 or TNT Ultra... -Slash -- "Ebert Victorious" -The Onion |
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