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ASUS Extreme N7800 GT TOP Silent PCI-E Review |
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Written by Zombie
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 |
X-Bit Labs shares their latest impressions on the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT TOP Silent PCIe video card. Today we are going to introduce to you a graphics card from ASUS based on NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT and equipped with their own patented passive cooling system aka SilentCool. Let's try to find out if they managed to create a truly high-end and silent graphics solution. The word TOP in the model name indicates an unusual graphics card. Following an established tradition, ASUS puts this name on advanced versions of ordinary cards that work at increased frequencies, come with gorgeous accessories and often incorporate original technical solutions.
 ASUS Extreme N7800 GT TOP Silent PCI-E Review
This time ASUS has come up with something different and made its patent pending passive cooling solution SilentCool the main feature of the new graphics card. For the user it means that the graphics card is absolutely noiseless and you can also be sure that it will never be damaged due to a fan failure. PC enthusiasts whose computers are working all day long are sure to appreciate SilentCool since silence is important for such operation mode. Otherwise this graphics card is a typical pre-overclocked GeForce 7800 GT. It is based on the 0.11-micron G70 chip and carries 256MB of GDDR3 memory on board.
The TOP model has higher core and memory frequencies than the ordinary version, 420MHz against 400MHz core and 1.28GHz against 1GHz memory and has a higher memory access time, namely 1.6ns against 2.0ns. You are going to see shortly how well these characteristics mix with passive cooling. ASUS is among the few companies who receive a do-it-yourself kit from NVIDIA rather than a ready-made GeForce 7800 GT. The kit includes a PCB, graphics processor and memory and it is up to the manufacturer to install everything right.
The ASUS Extreme N7800 GT TOP Silent is one of the most powerful solutions among the quiet graphics accelerators today or you can call it the quietest of the most powerful. It should be of interest mostly for those user's who do not built systems for the future but rather enjoy them today. With the performance level between the recently announced GeForce 7900 GT and the classical GeForce 7800 GT, the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT TOPS Silent will ensure that you enjoy all the latest games. And this of course at a very decent performance and resolution level.
The package contains all the necessary accessories and the included gaming titles were a very pleasant bonus, far not every graphics card maker includes so much software with their products as ASUS guys. The silent cooling solution implemented on this card as well as VIVO and HDTV support stress that this product is positioned for home use. A number of additional technologies we have mentioned make this card ideal for a silent PC or entertainment center. Due to the nature of the entertainment PC's the silent cooling is the most essential argument for a video card to equip these systems.
Maybe the ASUS Extreme N7800 GT TOP Silent is not the performance leader today, but it still offers very decent performance level in most games. Those who need more frame rates may build an SLI system with a pair of graphics cards like that. In this case the performance will reach up to the level of NVIDIA's flagship solutions such as GeForce 7900 GTX or even Radeon X1900 XTX. ASUS once again offered us a high-quality product and a very interesting solution. Their Extreme N7800 GT TOP Silent offers us great speed and absolutely noiseless operation.
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