HIS launches PCI Radeon X1300 with dual DVI

Author: Tim Smalley
Published: 2nd November 2006
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HIS launches PCI Radeon X1300 with dual DVI

A Radeon X1300 PCI with a passive cooler and two DVI ports, including one with dual-link capabilities. Awesome.

Earlier this year, Visiontek launched the world’s first PCI-based Radeon X1000-series video card. HIS has also been working on its own PCI-based Radeon X1000-series card too.

Both of the cards are low-profile Radeon X1300’s and are certainly not designed with performance in mind. However, unlike Visiontek’s card, the HIS card uses a passive cooling solution and also comes with a pair of DVI ports.

Not only that, but one of the DVI ports is dual-link, meaning that you’ll be able to connect one of Dell’s 30” behemoths to this rather inexpensive charmer.

Dual-link DVI ports are starting to roll out across ATI and NVIDIA’s product lines, because both companies are anticipating an increasing demand for these ultra-high resolution displays in the coming months.

Obviously the card comes with all of the usual Radeon X1000-series features including Avivo support to help offload HD video decoding and capture from the CPU. However, it’s not clear whether the card comes with HDCP support at the moment, but we’re attempting to find out. Whether it has or hasn’t got support for HDCP, it could be an ideal solution to put in a low-cost home brew media center.

Speaking of which, we’re told that the card is expected to retail at around £75 excluding VAT in the UK when it does get here. That’s a little bit more expensive than we were expecting, but given the fact that it is probably the fastest PCI-based video card out there, it isn’t all that bad. The card should be available at online retailers in the very near future.
Quote M4RTIN 2nd November 2006, 15:07
personally i dont see the point for such cards. if you want a low power card for a media centre a standard x1300 is cheaper. plus it may well be low profile but it ruins that by being so bloody wide
Quote Tim S 2nd November 2006, 15:17
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Originally Posted by M4RTIN
personally i dont see the point for such cards. if you want a low power card for a media centre a standard x1300 is cheaper. plus it may well be low profile but it ruins that by being so bloody wide
it's for people who don't have AGP or PCI-Express slots (think Dell users) and want to move away from integrated graphics.
Quote Lazlow 2nd November 2006, 15:47
There's obviously a market for it, otherwise they wouldn't sell it. Couldn't you potentially fill up all PCI slots with one of these?
Quote LoveJoy 2nd November 2006, 21:33
Nice to see HIS use their own coolingsystem.
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Originally Posted by Tim S
it's for people who don't have AGP or PCI-Express slots (think Dell users) and want to move away from integrated graphics.

I think that could be used as somesort of modeling computer GC in factory as known thoes don't have much power.
Quote speedfreek 3rd November 2006, 01:40
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Originally Posted by Tim S
it's for people who don't have AGP or PCI-Express slots (think Dell users) and want to move away from integrated graphics.
Yep, I havent made this mistake ever but I know plenty who have in the past. They are still stuck with a dell but it makes their life a little easier.
Quote wharrad 3rd November 2006, 08:47
Don't forget it's helpful if you're moving to a triple monitor setup on you don't have 2 PCI-e slots free - or AGP...

Or if you want a card to drive a PS1 Screen mod and you don't want to risk blowing the G80 via excellent soldering skills
Quote Tulatin 3rd November 2006, 10:19
Bit of a shame that they don't make a thin version, though. I mean really, how much heat can that core output.

now, if you can find a modern(or older) board with 6 PCI, 1AGP, and use these or the visionteks - massively montiplayer workstations ensue!
Quote speedfreek 3rd November 2006, 19:40
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Originally Posted by Tulatin
Bit of a shame that they don't make a thin version, though. I mean really, how much heat can that core output.
A little bit of creativity goes a long way.
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