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Preview : GIGABYTE GV-N98TZL-1GH Graphics Card

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Nvidia's 9 series graphics cards have always been great performers. The

latest offering, the 9800GT is no different. It comes with a whopping 1 GB of

GDDR3 memory and a 256-bit memory interface. It has a single slot design with

dual link DVI ports. It has to be connected via a 6 pin power connector, so make

sure your power supply has one. To keep the temperature at bay, the card comes

equipped with a copper heat sink and a Zalman fan. The cooling system of the

card is absolutely great and the highest temperature that we noted during

benchmark tests was 45 degrees Celsius. We tested the card using an AMD 64 X2

3800 processor running at 2 GHz, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, on an MSI K9N2 Diamond

motherboard. We ran our standard benchmarks on Windows XP SP3 with GeForce

181.22 drivers. In 3D Mark 06 it got an overall score of 7606 3D Marks, whereas

in PC Mark 05 it got an overall score of 5029 and 11032 for graphics

performance. The card gave us a score of 58.7 FPS in Unreal Tournament 3 with

1280 x 1024 resolution. In Left4dead, the card gave 50.46 FPS with maximum

details on 1280 x 1024 resolution. The OpenGL Fur rendering benchmark gave us an

average of 40 FPS. All these scores prove this is one capable graphics card that

you can use to play all the existing game titles with medium to full details on

high resolution. The only issue is its price, and at 3-4k less, it would have

given good value for money. An alternative that comes to mind straightaway is

Gecube 4850, which performs way better and is also priced low.

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Price: Rs

15,500



Key Specs: 9800GT, 1 GB GDDR3 RAM, PCI-e
2.0, 256 bit memory interface, 112 stream processors, dual link DVI,

OpenGL 2.0, Direct X 10



Contact: GIGABYTE Technologies


Website: www.gigabyte.in


SMS Buy 130371 to 56677


Bottom Line: A decent performer but the extra cooling does not justify

its price.

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