GeCube launches X1300 and X1600 for AGP
ALTHOUGH BOTH Nvidia and ATI are reluctant to openly speak about sales of graphics cards that fit into an AGP slot - the sad fact is that both companies don't publicly care about massive majority of their GPU sales. The reason why is a very simple one: they don't want to spend time and money on developing their high-end products for the AGP slot, so their spinner machine has to throttle on "idle" or "defensive" when it comes to the user-beloved, almost nine-year old slot...
Both X1300 and X1600 use very similar PCB, so GeCube slapped two GPU's on the very same AGP PCB and shipped them out. The simple named GC-RX1600PGA2-D3 is actually an RV530 based product, clocked at 500MHz for GPU core, while GC-RX1300GA2-D3 is an RV515LE based product, with the core running at 450MHz. Both boards come with 256MB of same DDR-II memory, but with different clocks on each board.
The X1600 product features two DVI outputs, while X1300 comes in more of a classical D-Sub+DVI combo. Also, X1600 core is being cooled by a fan and a copper heatsink, X1300 is cooled by a smaller fan&aluminium heatsink combo. Since these 90nano chips suck more power than measily 35W that AGP slot can provide, we have seen "Return of The Molex" in not so hip-hop version.
