Leadtek WinFast 7950 GX2 TDH

INTRODUCTION

Those of you that have read some of my most recent articles and reviews have noticed my budding interest in AMD and NVIDIA. These interests centered around motherboards containing the newly released NVIDIA 500 series of media and communications processors (MCP) and AMD's new line of Socket AM2 processors. For a guy that six months prior to this couldn't, or should I say wouldn't even spell NVIDIA or AMD this was quite a drastic change in thought process. Being somewhat anal and also a huge procrastinator when it comes to purchasing brand new, first generation products; my history also dictates that nothing is added to my collection without it being minimally a generation 2 of a product.

Last week all of the premises that I have lived by so closely went out the window when I obtained a brand new rig comprised of an ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe (NVIDIA 590) motherboard and an AMD socket AM2 X2 5000+ processor. My plans were to initially use an older GeForce 7800GT that I had on the shelf until such time as I did the appropriate research to determine the best video card to accentuate my new toys.

No more than a day or two passed when I received a message on my voice mail from Scott the Owner/Publisher of Bjorn3D asking if I'd be interested in doing a review on the new LeadTek WinFast WinFast PX7950 GX2 TDH. Having recently co-authored a review with Scott on another 7950 GX2 based card and being extremely hyped by the results this was an obvious sign verifying that I'd made a great decision to get the new products as all my previous rigs were AGP based. I wasted no time in contacting Scott and giving him a resounding YES!

Having reviewed two of LeadTek's video capture systems a few months ago and being highly impressed with both the quality and performance of those products I was extremely optimistic that this product would continue to improve upon that history. In preparation for the review I went to LeadTek's site and read a bit more about their history. Aside from the usual hoopla that all technical sites publish, one statement in LeadTek Research's corporate overview stood out!

"Innovation and Quality are all and intrinsic part of our corporate policy." "We have never failed to stress the importance of strong R&D capabilities if we are to continue to make high quality products with added value." "By doing so, our products will not only go on winning favorable reviews in the professional media and at exhibitions around the world but the respect and loyalty of the market." "For Leadtek, our customers really do come first and their satisfaction is paramount important to us."

Please join me today as we determine if LeadTek's quality of words captioned above stand tall and are transmitted into actions with one of their newest products, the LeadTek WinFast WinFast PX7950 GX2 TDH.