Inno3D Tornado GeForce FX 5600 Ultra - 128mb

What you get

Inside the box, is the Inno3D Tornado 5600 Ultra, a DVI to VGA adapter, S-Video Out cable, S-Video to Composite adapter and a fat software bundle.  The bundle, packaged up and labeled “Mega Pack 2003” includes a Driver/Utility CD, five game demos, a full version of Comanche 4, the demo version of 3D Mark 2003 as well as InterVideo’s WinDVD Creator and WinDVD 4. 

The game demos you get are Black Hawk Down, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, Red Faction, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and Vietcong.  As far as the driver disk is concerned, several versions of the NVidia Detonator Drivers are here from a very old (making me wonder why it’s even on the disk) NED v27.20 to the more current v43.03 and v43.51 NEDs.  Zipped up copies of Direct X 8 and 9 are also included on the driver/utility disk.

The Card

Our test card came equipped with 128MB of 2.8 ns BGA DDR memory.  The BGA memory should give us some additional reach with higher memory clock speeds.  The memory clock is set as an observed 702MHz.  The board is also relatively clean looking.  There aren’t a ton of capacitors all over the place.  The card is so straight forward looking its easy to forget that there are approximately 80 million transistors at work in the 5600 Ultra GPU.

The Tornado 5600 Ultra is built on black PCB with an oversized aluminum GPU heatsink.  Gone is the passive half sandwich cooler we saw on the 5200 model.  In its stead is the actively cooled directional heatsink similar to Thermaltake’s copper GPU heatsink.  Except that this one is constructed out of aluminum.  It’s hard to miss the label on top of the heatsink that reminds you this is a 5600 “Ultra” card.  In the pic on the right you see the FX core that is set at 351MHz. 

As you saw in the specs, the Tornado 5600 Ultra sports a standard 15 pin VGA port, S-Video Out port, and a DVI port.

Like most big boy cards now, standard power via the AGP slot won’t do.  A four-pin Molex connector is on the rear of the card to ensure you have a constant steady stream of juice.

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