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FORSA FX5600 128MB


Review Date: August 30, 2003
Reviewed by: Clay Graves
Sponsored by: FORSA

 



Introduction:

FORSA is a brand name that I have truthfully have never heard of until now. They are a growing company that will start selling their line of FX video cards in the states in September at Powernode.com. The FORSA brand is a product of Geniman International Limited (GIL) which is based in Hong Kong. The current line of FORSA cards includes the FX5200, FX5600, and FX5900 Ultra - all three of which will be reviewed here at PCExtreme this week.





Packaging:




The box has some really nice looking graphics on it.  The Nvidia fairy is always nice of course but a few things that stood out on the box is the DVI connection, TV-OUT, and the lighted cooling fan.  A mod that is included on a stock card?  Sounds like my kind of card.  The card inside has cardboard as protection which was thin but I have seen a lot worse in packaging fragile computer hardware. I found the following in the box.
  • The card.
  • The driver CD.
  • PowerDVD.
  • Games Try-out CD - Includes demos of: Age of Wonders II, Beam Breakers, Myth III: The Wolf Age, Rally Trophy, Stronghold Crusader and Zax.
  • DVI - to - VGA adapter.
  • Video-Out Cable.
  • User manual.






Features:


  • Graphic Core : 256-bit
  • Core Speed : 270 MHz
  • Memory Configuration : 128-bit 128MB
  • Memory Speed : 460 MHz
  • Memory Bandwidth (GB/Sec) : 8.8
  • Bus Interface : AGP 8X
  • Pixels per clock (peak) : 4
  • Veticles/sec. : 81 million
  • Fill Rate : 1.3 billion
  • RAMIDACs (MHz) : 400
  • Max Resolution : 2048x1536 @ 85Hz
  • Monitor Support , Analog Monitor , HDB-15 connector , TV-out, S-Video , Digital Flat Pane l, DVI-I





NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
 


CINEFX SHADING ARCHITECTURE
  Support for DX 9.0 pixel shader 2.0+
  Support for DX 9.0 vertex shader 2.0+
  Very long pixel programs up to 1024 instructions
  Very long pixel programs with up to 256 static instructions and up to
   65536 instructions executed before termination
   Looping and subroutines with up to 256 loops per vertex program
   Subroutines in shader programs
   Dynamic flow control
   Conditional write masking
   Conditional execution
   Procedural shading
   Full instruction set for vertex and pixel programs
   Z-correct bump-mapping
   Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
   Two-sided stencil
   Programmable matrix palette skinning
   Keyframe animation
   Custom lens effect: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water refraction

HIGH-PERFORMANCE,
HIGH-PRECISION 3D RENDERING ENGINE
    Up to 8 pixels per clock rendering engine
   128-bit, studio-quality floating point precision through the entire
   graphics pipeline
   Native support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating and
   32-bit integer rendering modes
   Up to 16 textures per pass
   Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
   DirectX and S3TC texture compression

HIGH-PERFORMANCE 2D RENDERING ENGINE
   Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
   True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
   Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and
    video playback

INTELLISAMPLE TECHNOLOGY
   Blistering-fast antialiasing performance
   Adaptive texture filtering
   Support for advanced loss-less compression algorithms for
   both color and z data
   Fast Z-clear

ADVANCED DISPLAY PIPELINE
WITH FULL NVIEW CAPABILITIES
   Dual RAMDACs (up to 400MHz) for display resolutions up to
   and including 2048x1536@85Hz
   Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder support resolutions up to
   1024x768 without the need for panning with built-in Macrovision
   copy protection
   DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
   DVI support for compatibility with next-generation flat panel displays
   with resolutions up to and including 1600x1200
   NVIDIA NVRotate application for advanced viewing flexibility
   NVIDIA NVKeystone application for advanced display correction

DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL (DVC) 3.0
   DVC color controls
   DVC image sharpening controls

ROCKET SCIENCE
FOR A SYSTEM-LEVEL SOLUTION
   0.13Łg process technology for higher levels of integration and
   higher operating clock speeds
   Copper vias and wiring
   Advanced thermal monitoring and thermal management
   AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing
   Flip-chip BGA packaging

API SUPPORT
  Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower
  Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower support
 
 
 






 


The card:


 



The card really is quite impressive.  The fan on the GPU looks like it can take care of this card with ease and even perhaps over clocked.  Find out a bit later how that goes.  Also take a look at all the connections on this board.  My 9700 Pro comes with all of these connections and it's a high dollar card.


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