The e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock

The EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS follows the mindset of the e-GeForce 7800 GT and GTX. It is a good looking card with outstanding performance and comes in a single slot design. The cooler is deducted from the reference design from NVIDIA with some small change related to the CO abbreviation in the product name. The main difference related to the GeForce 7800 GT and GTX is the interface; whereas the GT and GTX are PCI Express based card the GeForce 7800 GS is all about the AGP connection.

The full blown EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock looks impressive. The actual PCB is only partly hidden away behind the single slot cooling solution. Peeking out at the bottom we see the AGP interface connection. On top of the cooler, or better the cooling fan displays the EVGA brand making sure that we all know it is an EVGA product. It is rather interesting to see a single slot cooling on the GeForce 7800 GS and still can be overclocked quite high related to the reference speeds.

	GeForce 7800 GS	GeForce 7800 GT	GeForce 7800 GTX
Core	375MHz	400MHz	430MHz
Memory	1200MHz	1000MHz	1200MHz
Pipelines	16	20	24

The table above shows where to situate the GeForce 7800 GS products according to NVIDIA's design. When looking at the processing power of the GeForce 7800 GS you may notice that with only 16 pipelines it would mean a downgraded GeForce 7800 GT. And that it's in fact when it comes down to the numbers. From that perspective the GeForce 7800 GS is leaning closer to the GeForce 6800 GT, which is also featuring 16 pixel pipelines. However, it is a different story when looking at the e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock, which comes with a 460MHz core speed. That alone will leave the GeForce 6800 GT far behind in term of raw performance and gaming experience.

It's important to note that while EVGA does clock their e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock board higher than any other GeForce 7800 GS AGP card on the market, it's fundamentally unchanged from the NVIDIA reference board design for the GeForce 7800 GS AGP. While this may be a little disappointing to some enthusiasts, NVIDIA's reference board design for the GeForce 7800 GS AGP is actually quite good. The GPU doesn't generate a lot of heat, even when running overclocked.

The rear view on the other hand is quite different than what we are used to for NVIDIA based video card. It doesn't reveal that much more details on the PCB. A full view of the backside of the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS show us that the backplate of the cooling solution which covers about half of the PCB, which is actually where the memory chips are located. These memory chips are clocked at 1.35GHz on the SuperClock edition, so some proper cooling is certainly an added value.