Introduction
These days most dream of the new 8800 Geforce cards, but few can afford to pay 600$ for a videocard. Therefore we decided to make a review again of the older 7800GTX card. Are you still able to get out good performance out of this card and is it really worth paying out the 180$ for a older videocard? Those are a few questions we will answer on tonights review.
About XFX:
XFX dares to go where the competition would like to, but can’t. That’s because, at XFX, we don’t just create great digital video components–we build all-out, mind-blowing, performance crushing, competition-obliterating video cards and motherboards. Oh, and not only are they amazing, you don’t have to live on dry noodles and peanut butter to afford them.
XFX is a division of PINE Technologies, a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art processing components.
Specifications:
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth 40 GB/sec
Fill Rate 10.32 billion pixels/sec
Pixels per Clock (peak) 24
RAMDACs 400
Texels per Second 860 million
Chipset GeForce 7800 GTX
Memory 256MB
Bus Type PCI-E
Memory Type DDR 3
Memory Bus 256-bit
Output Dual DVI
Highlighted Features :
SLI ready, HDTV ready, Dual DVI Out, Dual VGA, Factory overclocked the engine clock at 450MHz and memory clock at 1.25GHz (vs. standard 430MHz and 1.2GHz) , TV Capture
The product:
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XFX have for a longer period now had their boxes look like an “X” to stand out from the standard boxes on the market. On the front you have a nice picture and on the back you got specifications and general information about the card and the company.
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Of course the card comes with some accessories and games to, I found there to be two S-video cables, one adapter and a couple of manuals also. There is also 4 cd�s included with this card, once includes drivers of course but you also get games like Farcry, X the threat just as few examples.
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The card itself is quite big as we can see on the left picture. This might make it hard for you to install ram on your board depending on where the ram slots are mounted. It is equipped with a 40 mm fan, they tend to be quite loud but this is not bad at all I have to admit. It has a temperature sensor which changes the fan RPM to lower or higher depending on the temperature. You will need to connect a PCI-E power connector to the card for it to work correctly. If you don’t have one on your PSU you can buy adapters.
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The card is equipped with two DVI connectors and one S-video output so you can connect it for example to your TV. As we can see on the right picture the cooler is well mounted, as there are two big pieces of metal on the back to keep the cooler in place on the card.
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