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EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClock Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Saturday, 01 April 2006 |
Spotted on The Inquirer is a review on the EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClock graphics card. NVIDIA fooled many people with its G71 chip. Like the name implies, it is a shrink which is cheaper and cooler than the G70. But it did made a big deal with the G71 GT, or should we call it the GeForce 7900 GT. NVIDIA made a card that is roughly as fast if not faster than the GeForce 7800 GTX and is selling it for $300 plus. It is still a single slot cooling card normally clocked to 450/1320MHz but knowing EVGA it also has some cards that are clocked much higher than that. It is important to underline that GeForce 7900 GT has full 24 pipelines which makes it a perfect GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB competitor.
 EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClock Review
NVIDIA can do it as the chip is slower and as the G71, GeForce 7900 GTX can overclock up to a smashing 700MHz with an dual slot, quad heatpipe cooler. It is important to say that all GeForce 7900 GT cards will comes with 256MB GDDR3 memory but 256MB will do just fine. EVGA also ships an e-GeForce 7900 GT CO version clocked at 500/1500MHz memory while we got top of the range e-GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClock card at a storming 550MHz core and 1580MHz memory. We tested this card at NVIDIA's default 450/1320MHz and at its shipping 550/1580MHz clock speeds.
You will be surprised with the scores as we most certainly were. The e-GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClock card will cost around €399 in European retail while the standard e-Geforce 7900 GT costs around €300. NVIDIA made a very good card. The GeForce 7900 GT is definitely beating the old GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB cards. It competes against the Radeon X1800 XT and makes it runs for its money. It can score significantly more but the R520, Radeon X1800 XT has Avivo a nice video acceleration feature that can decode video much faster than anything else.
The EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT CO SuperClock card is definitely the winner here. It is faster than both of the cards and it probably deserves €100 extra that you need to pay to get it. It is probably the fastest single slot card available. It can overclock even more than the default clock but we didn't played much with that. It will cost you €399 but we think it is the right price. ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB and even 512MB should be available for around €350 while the default clocked GeForce 7900 GT costs around €320 at press time. I am using the reference prices from the etailers that have them available.
EVGA sure did a great job with this card and I can easily recommend it. I also believe that buying a Radeon X1800 XT 512MB card for €350 should be a nice deal as well, as this card sure has something to offer.
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