Chaintech GeForce FX 5500 256MB Video Card Review

Chaintech’s FX5500 is a great little video card with lots of spunk. The 256MB DDR will help boost your system so that you can play newer games (look how well it did with Jedi Knight II). It’s a solid card which performed quite well in our benchmarks. Considering the extra RAM and the fact that it’s a 128-bit card, I had expected it to outperform the 128MB 64-bit 9600SE in each test… granted Radeons have consistently performed better than NVIDIA chips in certain benchmarks.

It managed quite a decent overclock that remained stable and gave the system a nice boost. It would have been nice to see heatsinks on the RAM to protect them during such overclocking, but I understand Chaintech wanted to keep the cost of the card down. And at $100, you really cannot go wrong. It’d be easy to complain that the card doesn’t come with a lot of extras, but are those really needed?

CHAINTECH GEFORCE FX5500 256MEG VIDEOCARD @ TweakNews