The video card comes in a retail box carrying the logotypes of Sapphire and
ATI, also some kind of female-like mechanical creature we've seen many times
before. Although the box is rather small, it contains the video card and many
additional hardware: two DVI to D-Sub (VGA) adaptors, a splitted to composite
video adaptor, a splitted to per channel (RGB) composite video adaptor, one
cable for splitted and one for composite video signal, and a twin cable for
auxiliary power supply. Of course, there is a driver CD, also a quick install
guide written in 17 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Portuguese, Polish, Bulgarian, Czech, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian,
Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish) and two "Fueled by Sapphire - Graphics by
ATI" stickers. You may also notice a "HDCP Ready" label on the box, though the
card has probably nothing to do with digital content protection because it
doesn't come with a HDMI connector. What to say, another marketing trick.
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There is no single reference design for Radeon X1950 Pro, but this one seems
to be the most popular. The power supply stabiliser is located in the right part
of the card close to two 4-pin "molex" style connectors. The opposite part is
populated by two DVI and one TV-out connector with a Sapphire hologram on the
top. There is a large radiator of some unusual shape with a semi-transparent
blue cover featuring the same female-like mechanical creature.
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There is nothing special on the back side of the card. You can see a PCIe to
AGP bridge (RIALTO) covered by a sticky protective rubber pad of pink colour,
also a straight line of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and a square chip
leftwards which is the primary PWM controller.
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