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A Closer Look
This section of the review is kind of
pointless in a way as I'm told by NVIDIA that the
final retail card will be significantly shorter than
this one, which is damned good news as this thing's
an absolute monster. Take a look at the pictures anyway,
it'll give you an idea how your shiny new 5900 Ultra
started its life.
Top to bottom ~ FX 5900 Ultra, FX 5800 Ultra, FX5600
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It's certain that we're still looking
at a dual slot card which as I keep saying isn't likely
to be a big issue for most users who tend to avoid
using PCI slot one anyway due to it usually sharing
an IRQ with the AGP slot. Actually that's less of
a big issue these days but old habbits die hard. There
may be no real need to now but I still tend to keep
PCI slot 1 free myself.
I haven't seen one in the flesh yet
but the final retail card is probably set to look
a little something like this one:
Okay, that's what the big fella looks
like, now let's see what it's made of:
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