The AA5700U Apogee comes in an eye catching retail box.

The front of the box has the artwork, and the back tantalizes you with all the goodies inside. Chaintech was even thoughtful enough to include a handle on the box to make it easier to carry out of the store :) Inside the box all the accessories are well packed to protect them during delivery.

Along with the video card, the box came with the usual installation CD, manual, assorted cables, adaptors, WinDVD 4, WinDVD Creator, WinRip, WinProducer 3.0, 3Deep, one combo CD with 5 games on it (Age of Wonders2, Serious Sam2, Rally Trophy, Max Payne, and Tropico), and the new Commandos 3: Destination Berlin game (see specs below for the itemized list).

The card itself is a very nice looking unit.

It comes on a brown PCB board with a gold fan cover, gold and chrome heatspreaders, and a gold rear plate.

The main fan assembly on the card has two fans mounted around a nice set of copper fins that provide for excellent cooling with minimal noise. The bottom of the card has a gold heatsink for the memory modules with a sharp looking chrome Chaintech plate on top of it. Overall, the card struck me as looking very well thought out and the brown/gold combo give it a unique appearance from the other FX cards that I have seen lately.

Specifications as listed by Chaintech:

Interface

• AGP interface
• 4x/8x AGP supports

Chipset

• NVIDIA GeForce FX5700 Ultra

Memory

• 128MB DDRII SDRAM

General features

• 0.13u process technology
• 128-bit advanced memory interface
• 256-bit graphics architecture
• 475 MHz engine clock
• 900 MHz memory clock
• 400 MHz internal RAMDAC
• 356 Million vertices/ sec
• 1.9 Billion texels/ sec fill rate
• 14.4 GB/sec memory bandwidth
• 4 pixels per clock rendering engine
• 16 texels per pixel with 8 textures applied per clock
• NVIDIA CineFX 2.0 Engine
• Advanced Display Pipeline with full nView Capabilities
• High-performance, high-precision 3D rendering engine
• High-performance 2D rendering engine
• UltraShadow technology
• Intellisample HCT Performance Technology
• Advanced Display Pipeline with full nView Capabilities
• Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0
• NVIDIA nView multi-display technology
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)

High quality
video playback

• Dual 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and
  including 2048x1536@85Hz
• Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder support resolutions up
  to 1024x768 without the need for panning with built-in
  Macrovision copy protection
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to
  1920x1080i resolutions
• Support for single-link DVI for compatibility with next-
  generation flat panel displays with resolutions greater than
  1600x1200 without the need for reduced blanking

Full software support

• Microsoft DirectX optimizations and support
• Full OpenGL 1.5 and lower support
• Complete support DirectX 9.0 and lower
• WHQL-certified Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98, 95

Function

• 15-pin D-sub VGA out
• TV-out (Mini Din 4pin S-Video connector)
• DVI (DVI connector)

Bundled software

• WinDVD 4
• WinDVD Creator
• WinRip
• WinProducer 3.0
• GOSU - Graphics Overclocking System Utility
• Commandos3 (Full version)
• Game pack (5 in 1)
• 3Deep

Accessories

• S-Video Cable (150cm)
• Composite Cable
• S to AV Cable
• DVI to VGA Adapter
• Power Cable
• Q Ball (Monitor cleaner)

Supports super high-resolution graphics

Warranty:

One Year warranty