Water cooled GeForce 7800 GT OC (overclocked)

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:34:00 GMT

well, as the title says, its water cooled!!!! this ultimate gamming graphics card is really a piece of art.

Specifications:

>>	BFG GeForce™ 7800 GT OC™ 256MB
>>	PCI Express™
>>	Memory 256MB GDDR3
>>	Core Clock 470MHz (vs. 400MHz standard)
>>	Memory Clock 1050MHz (vs. 1000MHz standard)
>>	RAMDAC Dual 400MHz
>>	Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and lower, OpenGL 2.0 and lower for Microsoft® Windows®
>>	Connectors: Dual DVI-I, HDTV, VIVO
>>	940 million vertices/sec.
>>	33.6GB/second memory bandwidth

btw... it's SLI compatible

that means u can hook up two graphics card (should be compatible) on the same PC.... give that a thought

for more info visit: http://www.chumbo.com/info.aspx?id=296667

The new Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 MB graphics card!

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:53:00 GMT

The new Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX 512 MB video card is astonishing, and contrary to what Al-Ghad news paper has published about the new ATI Radeon and how cool it is, am sorry but they were so wrong!

i quote from the site http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=182&type=expert

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Introduction

When NVIDIA launched the 7800 GTX graphics card back in June 22nd it was by far the fastest GPU on the market and ATI had nothing to counter it with. ATI finally did launch a counter in the form of the X1800 XT on October 5th and was able to return to the neck and neck race that we had expected. But ATI's card was using 512 MB of memory and a very high frequency while the NVIDIA 7800 GTX GPUs were only using 256 MB and still quite a bit of headroom in them for overclocking as many of our reviews have shown.

When the ATI launch hit, everyone knew it wouldn't be long until NVIDIA came swinging back.

The 7800 GTX 512 MB

If there was one thing that NVIDIA was adament about during the X1800 XT launch, it was that what the media should be comparing the 7800 GTX to was in fact the X1800 XL. Their reasoning was that the prices were more closely matched there than with the XT model and both only features 256 MB of memory. They promised a new card would be coming very soon with a larger frame buffer and faster clocks that would be on the same price level as the X1800 XT.

What I expected was a 7800 Ultra; but we got the 7800 GTX 512 MB. Or something like that... First, note that the basic architecture of the 7800 GTX 512 MB remains unchanged from the previous 7800 GTX models. We are still dealing with the same 24 pixel shader and 8 vertex shader architecture that we discussed in great detail in our initial 7800 GTX review.

As you can see, the 7800 GTX 512 MB makes a return to a two slot cooling solution with a heatpipe design that moves heat to a much larger heatsink area than what covers the GPU. A single large, but impressively quiet fan, is centered on the heatsink and blows air both out the back of the card and out through the front.

With NVIDIA touting such great use of power and a single slot cooling solution with the 7800 GTX, why did they return to the two slot design now? A much higher core clock and memory clock are to blame. Here are the reference specs from NVIDIA:

Core clock: 550 MHz
Memory clock: 850 MHz (1.70 GHz DDR)
512 MB / 256-bit memory
Dual DVI-I and HDTV/VIVO

Those are very impressive clocks! Going from the reference clocks on the original 7800 GTX of 430 MHz core and 600 MHz memory clock we have a 27% increase in core speeds and a 41% boost in memory speed. Surely nothing to sneeze at and if ATI wasn't worried before, they should be now. How was NVIDIA able to hit speeds this high? Obviously the new cooling solution was a requirement for clocks this high and by tweaking the same 0.11 micron process that all the other 7800 GPUs have been built, NVIDIA is able to squeeze even more out of a core that had lots of room to grow.

Here's the card without that hefty heatsink on it showing the GPU and Samsung memory chips.

What's that? A closer look at the GPU under the 7800 GTX 512 MB's hood and you can clearly see the markings "GF-7800-U-42". It looks like we were much closer to the 7800 Ultra nomenclature than NVIDIA would have us believe!

The Samsung memory modules that NVIDIA chose for the 7800 GTX 512 MB are actually rated 900 MHz, though they are only running at 850 MHz at reference speeds. NVIDIA has purposely left some breathing room in the GPU and memory speeds in order to allow their card vendors to provide more robust solutions to the market. Basically, you can be sure you'll see pre-overclocked 7800 GTX 512 MB cards soon, if not today.

Of course all this power comes at a cost. The suggested price from NVIDIA for this card is $649. Ouch. Now, with that in mind, we have seen NVIDIA's MSRPs continually broken by retail boards available the day of release! When the 6800 GS was released boards could be found that day for nearly $50 under the MSRP! Will that happen today? While I don't know how likely that is with this being such a small market, I don't think we'll be seeing any shortages or price gougings.

About comparison between this and the ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512 MB look forward for the next post...

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Water cooled GeForce 7800 GT OC (overclocked)

The new Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 MB graphics card!

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