Albatron jumps the gun on 5700 Ultra

It seems Albatron didn't want to wait the few more hours till the dark cloud of NDA vanished and they served us up some information about their new card.

Albatron will clock its card at Nvidia's reference speed of 475MHz while they will use DDR 2 memory that will run at 900MHz. This is Nvidia's second stab at DDR 2 and we reckon that with NV30, FX5800 Dustbuster edition, this memory was having some hearing problems. In that case they used 100MHz faster-clocked product than Albatron's 5700 Ultra but still, even ATI's Radeon 9800 PRO 256 DDR II clocked at only 700 MHz gets quite hot.

We don't want to repeat stuff, so all the details about the Nvidia Geforce FX5700Ultra are already here and the only new thing is the Ultra shadow marchitecture but this is just new feature in the driver. There's not much else to add.

It's interesting that this hardware supports the latest, greatest OpenGL 1.5 and of course no more or no less than DirectX 9.

As for Albatron's specific feature, the company ships its patented triple fan cooling system, a marchitectural step forward from their previous Wise Fan cooling solution that features 2+1 fans of the board. If the temperature reaches 56 Celsius, third fan - which sleeps until awakened - will jump in and help to cool stuff down.

Albatron claims only 25 dBA as fan noise for the card but we reckon they are talking about one fan not all 2 - 3 of them.

The cards come with D-Sub, DVI and TV out, while the bundle includes WinDVD Creator, DukeNukem and 5 in 1 game pack.

We don't have any pricing details at press time. Samples should be available in November. µ