Hmm, believe it or not, nowadays graphic card is really delicious in form of their appearance and performance. What I mean delicious is not you can eat them!

But it’s so tasty that will make some of budget limited students drop their saliva when comparing the price and performance + appearance. ;p

Believe it or not, the graphic card from the past was not so attracting. All color is green with black chip and black fan. You won’t love the view if you compare it with nowadays Graphic Cards.

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT is one of the graphic Card that have the combination of 3 great aspects that you might need to take a serious look into this series.

The 3 Great Aspects are as follow:

1. First, Appearance.
2. Next is Performance, and
3. Last one is Price!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT (Model: 100218L) indeed have a nice appearance. See the picture below and tell me what do you think:

Cool isn’t it? Or it’s too normal for you?

Well, appearance is just an eyes candy. Do not help anything for your PC. What you must seek is the Performance.

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT have a superb performance because this graphic card is using GDDR3 already!!

Supporting DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0. With its Memory size of 512Mb, it give you nothing but a smooth gaming experience!

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT have fully compatible with HD play back and you can use your HDTV as your monitor using the free HDTV Cable.

To sum everything into a list of core features of SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT, see below:

1. PCI Express x16 interface
2. Using 120 Stream Processing units
3. 512MB Memory Size with 128-bit Interface and GDDR3
4. 2 DVI Ports - ability to use two monitor
5. HDTV support
6. Max Resolution up to 2560 x 1600
7. CrossFire Ready
8. Important - It’s Vista Ready!

Here is some Pros and Cons form SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT users. Make sure to read carefully and compare the Pros and Cons:

Pros (+):

• Digest every game perfectly (normal setting). RE4, Tomb Raider, Doom, etc is a tasty food for this card.
• Inexpensive Crossfire Card with GDDR3 RAM.
• Support Vista and DX10 - No more compatibility Headache
• The Driver is suck - but Vista Recognize it instantly
• Lovely cool blue theme

Cons (-):

• Lags in High Setting on Quake, Unreal 3, Crysis, etc.
• You will find a difficulty to overclock this Card in Vista
• Not for Hardcore gamer - Never bought this card if you want a high level satisfaction to play high-end game.

There are several Model of this Graphic Card. This SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT 100218L is the middle if we sort it using price. The cheaper model is 100208L which have the price below $100.

While it also have the higher price above $150, I think it’s wiser to choose a cheaper model.

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 2600XT is the cheap solution if you want to enjoy a CROSSFIRE technology. Just Grab 2 of this card (around $230 only), and you are ready to enter to a different gaming world!

Hope this short review useful for you. Have a nice Holiday shopping day!