Test Environment

MVKTech once again is using its aging but still famous ASUS P4P800 Deluxe test rig for this part of the review. This is actually one of the best proofed systems with excellent support for AGP graphics cards. Some of you know the specifications and know them by heart, for those who don't; here is what we are using to test the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock.

• Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) 3.0GHz CPU
• ASUS P4P800 Deluxe Mainboard
• Crucial Ballistix 2x 512MB Dual Channel Memory
• OCZ PC-3700 2x 512MB Dual Channel Memory
• EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock 256MB AGP
• 1x Maxtor Diamond Max 9 200GB IDE HDD (UDMA133)
• Plextor PX-130A DVD-ROM Drive
• Speeze RockeTeer 600W Power Supply
• Cooler Master ATC-200C Case

This test bed has received a lot of use and is one of our primary testing platform at MVKTech. When we test VPU/GPU's, we use rigs that are in production and used daily, so you get a better idea of performance under a typical configured home used computer, we leave all our processes running and do not super tweak the platform to yield scores that might only happen with this test bed.

Additional Specifications

First we will grab some sample information from Everest Ultimate Edition and get some feedback on the video card sub system. Lavalys was nice enough to allow us to evaluate there software for this review. I really like the wealth of information this utility gives us and we thank Lavalys for there support. We ran some tests using Everest and this is what we got.

Well since the GeForce 7800 GS is now nicely installed into our test rig, we can go further before showing of some the images. So let's just do that and see how the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock fills up the free AGP slot.

This card looks kick ass in our system. We can already notice that the cooling does not interfere with surrounding motherboard components. The SuperClock is a low profile design and while being slightly bigger than a GeForce 6800 GT, but nevertheless it fits perfect in our case.

Let's move a bit down and see from the top how this looks. What can you derive from this view? You are right the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO SuperClock doesn't takes up an additional expansion slot. This is a single slot design by nature. That's it folks, time to hit up some synthetic tests and see what this SuperClock can muster. We used the ForceWare 84.12 drivers from NVIDIA and will test using Futuremark and AquaMark benchmark utilities and stack up some game titles.