PNY GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Company: PNY
Product: GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Street Price: ~$499
Date Reviewed: July 22, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey Chao

Bundled Features:

There is not really much to talk about in this bundle. The video card comes with a drivers CD and manual of course. Also included is a DVI to VGA adapter and a power cable which will connect the systems power supply directly to the video card. The only other item that was supplied with the card is the VIVO connector which allows for video in and out functions. Overall, we'd have to say that this is not a  very feature rich video card bundle. MSI provides tons of games, software, and even a remote control. PNY could have added some other these types of features but has basically chosen only to give the end-user a video card and a few connectors.

Overclocking:

To overclock this video card we used Coolbits. We started off with the core going in 10MHz increments. We got the card up to 505MHz on the core. Next we started overclocking the memory, which we got up to 970MHz. Since, we have not gotten a chance to test out any other FX5900 Ultra's it is hard to say if this card is a good overclocker or not. The gains from our overclocking did improve some of the benchmarks like 3DMarks 2001SE and 2003 but we were hoping to get much higher on the core.

Since these are some of the early revisions, perhaps overclocking will get better with more time.