DIAMOND X1950 Pro Video Card Review :: DIAMOND X1950 Pro Bundle

• DIAMOND X1950 Pro video card
• Driver CD
• Quick Install Guide
• Component-out cable adapter
• 9-pin S-Video/Composite VIVO cable
• 6-inch S-Video cable
• 6-inch composite cable
• 2x DVI-to-VGA adapter

The bundle on DIAMOND's Viper X1950 Pro 512MB PCIE with Dual DVI is sparse in terms of game bundles. I wax poetic a bit on DIAMOND video cards because my first 3D cards was a DIAMOND Monster 3D. That card came with 20 games and game demos, which took advantage of the new 3D capabilities of the Voodoo Graphics card.

Bundle

Hardware-wise, the DIAMOND VIPER X1950 Pro 512MB PCIE comes with everything that you could possibly want from a card EXCEPT for the Crossfire Link bridges to allow two X1950 Pro cards to work together in Crossfire mode. The bridges can be purchased from AMD's website for $10 each (Free Shipping) or you can buy a card that comes with the bridges included.

Driver CD

Installation menu

Setup

All settings

Graphics Hardware

Graphics Software

Anti-aliasing

Catalyst A.I.

Anisotropic Filtering

Adaptive anti-aliasing

DIAMOND's driver CD comes with DIAMOND's logo on AMD's Catalyst Control Center. The version on the CD is 6.11, the latest available to the public at this moment. As AMD releases new drivers, I would suggest downloading them from AMD's website, as DIAMOND has their branded 8.12 drivers from 6-2006 as the latest on their website. AMD has released Catalyst 6-11 and will probably release 6-12 in a few days. Note, the 8.12 DIAMOND drivers do not contain the inf entries to run the X1950 Pro and won't run the X1950 Pro.

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