Package and Contents

The package comes with a lot of equipment especially for video output, it has S-video to HD cable, S-video to S-video cable, S-video to composite cable and composite cable extender.
As well as the video cables there are power splitters and converters to give the EAX1950XTX that extra power, 2 x DVI to VGA adaptors and finally some games and applications.

Installation

The EAX1950XTX has a large cooling unit which has a venting tunnel with many fins directed out towards the back plate. The cooling unit has a polished copper block in the centre which is for the GPU core which in turn is wrapped and surrounded by plastic casing to direct air flow effectively. The RAM is also cooled by a seperate block of copper, which I believe is not air cooled by the main fan since it is encased by plastic.

 
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The EAX1950XTX fitted on to the Abit AW9D-MAX easily and it left some breathing space for the south chipset even though the video card was a full size PCI-E. There is plenty of room a second PCI-E card about a few centimentres or so. Fortunately heat is expelled out the back of the system so there should be no concern for heat build-up in the system

Driver installation was very unusual as these cards used Asus' own modified Catalyst 6.9 drivers, so you cannot download and use ATI's reference drivers..