NVidia 7800GTX 512 MB Gaming Card

NVidia 7800GTX 512 MB Gaming Card Price: Rs 53,950 Key Specs: 550 MHz clock speed, 512MB GDDR3 RAM Contact: Zebronics, Chennai.  Tel: 044 26616202.  E-mail: zebronics@rediffmail.com RQS# E53 or SMS 131253 to 9811800601

NVIDIA has released an update of its powerful gaming

card-the 7800GTX 512MB. No wonder if it's the fastest graphics card on the

planet as of writing this review. It runs fairly cool due to its massive

heatsink and large fan, which displaces more air while it spins at a low speed.

The heatsink is big enough to completely cover an adjacent PCI slot. We used the

coolbits registry tweak to overclock the core speed card to 621 MHz and the

memory to 1.83 GHz. We tested it on the latest ASUS A8Nx32-SLI motherboard,

powered by an AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 1GB DDR 400 and a 7200 RPM 120 GB Seagate

SATA drive.

With 3DMark 05 running, it gave us an unbelievable score of

10,194 3DMarks- unbelievable as at one time two 7800GTs on the same hardware

gave us a score just above 11,000.

We then ran Doom3 with 4xAA and got a whopping score of 115

fps. The 16xAA yielded a whopping 75 fps while with Far Cry, at 4x AA and 8x AF,

we got 92 fps. We then put it through some Splinter Cell Chaos Theory demos at

4xAA, and the card once again gave a thumping 59 fps. Finally, we ran Need For

Speed. We played the game with all graphics set at their maximum.

The card gave excellent graphics quality (even the droplets

of rain on the car's windshield were visible).

Bottom Line: This card is not meant for everybody,

which is quite obvious going by its price. The icing on the cake is that it's

an SLI card, and we really dream to see how two of these would perform.

Varun Dubey