The Graphics Card used to play games with all their bells and whistles on. It makes use of ATI’s reference cooler and is a notch faster than similar Radeon 4890 cards at its default settings. Powering up the card are two six pin PCIe power connectors that will require having at least a 550W power supply.
Bundled with the card is a DVI to HDMI adapter, DVI to VGA adapter, S-Video to composite adapter, Component Video dongle, cross Fire Bridge and a leather mouse pad. Overall memory is clocked at 850 MHz and 975 MHz respectively.The icing on the cake is the Asus Smart Doctor software that comes bundled with the card and it will allows you to make fine adjustments to the overall voltage levels.
The Tweaks Crysis Warhead returned a playable frame rate of 35 fps in gamer mode at 1680×1050 at 2xAA. Race Driver Returned a flawless 85 fps at 1920×1200 with AA set to 8X. With the Smart Doctor able to increase the core speed to a sweet 940MHz, while memory touched 1150MHZ. Moreover, to obtain these speeds the voltage had to be bumped up from 1.3V to 1.33V.
