Leadtek WinFast A310 Ultra TD MyVivo

Leadtek has been around for many years, providing motherboards, graphics boards and other hardware for the masses. For the past few years, Leadtek has been producing graphics boards based on NVIDIA's latest silicon. Naturally, the company's current selection of graphics boards is based on NVIDIA's FX family of GPUs. As many of Leadtek's graphics boards have before them, all the boards in this latest family carry the WinFast moniker. They are separated into four groups - the A350 series (FX 5900), the A340 series (FX 5200), the A310 series (FX 5600), and the A300 series (FX 5800). Each of these series has at least one Ultra version and one VIVO version of the board in that series, so there is a little something for everyone. For more information on this family of graphics boards, check out Leadtek's main graphics board web page here.

Today, we are going to take a look at the high end of the A310 series, the WinFast A310 Ultra TD MyVivo, which as noted above is based on NVIDIA's FX 5600 GPU. As you may already know, this is a very capable midrange graphics processor that, as we will see, really flexes its muscle when GPU intensive features such as anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are enabled.

Specifications:

For a full list of the WinFast A310 Ultra TD MyVivo's specifications, visit Leadtek's website.

Here are the some of the highlights:

• NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra GPU
• 128MB DDR RAM
• 400MHz RAMDACs
• 1.4 Billion texels/sec fill rate
• 88 Million vertices/sec
• 11.2 GB/sec memory bandwidth
• 16 texels per pixel with 8 textures applied per clock
• 4 Pixels per Clock Rendering Pipeline
• On-board DVI support up to 1600x1200 resolution
• On-board TV-out support up to 1024x768 resolution

Features:

Leadtek has provided a generous software bundle and, as its name suggests, VIVO features with this board.

• Ulead VideoStudio SE DVD
• Ulead COOL 3D SE
• WinFast PVR
• WinFast DVD
• WinFox II
• Cult 3D
• Coloreal Embedded
• Coloreal Visual
• Coloreal Bright
• Gun Metal
• Big Mutha Truckers

• Picture-in-picture: One for "live" program and the other for a captured program. The main and sub program can be switched, and the sub screen video can be displayed anywhere on the desktop in any size.
• De-interlace: Improved quality for fast-motion video, and no noise and flicker on the edge of motion objects.
• Video Capture: Supports MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4 formats.