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It is completely natural to assume that PowerColor and Gecube will be the only AMD partners , witch will propose in Computex 2007 , the video card series radeon HD 2600, with AGP 8x interface . The transitional bridge RIALTO allow video card producers to create AGP- products on base of any video chip with PCI express x16 support . The basic limit of such video card is only the market demand . Since NVIDIA cannot propose video card with AGP 8x interface , that support DirectX 10, AMD company and partners see the possibility to fill this specific niche with their products.
Associates published information about video card Radeon HD 2600 XT with AGP 8x interface from sapphire productions . This card is based on printed-circuit board dark-blue color, which usually speak about sapphire participation in the design development . The additional power connector have 6 PIN , which is usually used on video cards with PCI express x16 interface .
Video card is equipped with 256 mb GDDR- 3 memory . Frequencies are also known: 800/1400 MHz as in version with PCI express x16 interface .Sapphire will also present video card radeon HD 2600 Pro and Radeon HD 2400 Pro with AGP 8x interface .
The version radeon HD 2600 XT with AGP 8x interface and alternative cooler was noted by associates from HIS company . It is expected that the AGP- versions will be released soon , after the official announcement of video card radeon HD 2600.
Sapphire was able to develop the economical version radeon HD 2600 XT with PCI express x16 interface . The Slots number is reduced from eight to four, there is no crossfire bridges . But here , crossFire support can be released at drivers level and data exchange in this case will be achieved through the PCI express interface . Related Products :
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