XFX GeForce FX 5700 Ultra

After the trouble I had with my old XFX 5600 that claimed itself to be mid range, but ran like a low range I was a little skeptical when I decided to see what I thought of the next level of XFX cards and that led me to the Geforce XFX 5700 Ultra. I wont lie and say the Boxes XFX use aren't attractive, but thats not the reason I lean towards them. I do so because I them to be the best producers of the Geforce range of cards, I find them to be stable and well made as a rule. It cost me £139 (inc VAT) At the time, so I was expecting to get a better performance than the 5600, and thats exactly ... more

As you can see from the image the box this product comes in is shaped like an X. I have yet to work out the reason for this but it sure does make an impact when you see it. If you have not heard of XFX they are a ocmponent manufacturer that work with AMD and Nvidia to create motherboards and graphics cards. Obviously this is one of their graphics cards and in future, I will definately look out for their name when searching for hardware. Now, onto the performance, if you know about Nvidia graphics cards then you will know that this is one of 3 of their mid range graphics cards, the 5600(Ultra) ... more