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EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature Edition Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
The Inquirer has taken a look at the EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature Edition graphics card. EVGA made quite some noise about its Signature edition cards. It is a rather nice marketing gimmick for anyone that wants the best of the best. It gets even better, as it is not as expensive as you might imagine. You can go out and buy a GeForce 7900 GT card for roughly $275 and this very special card will cost you just $360. Trust me, it is worth every single cent. You won't believe how big the box is. We remember that Gainward and ASUS made the biggest boxes but this one actually outscores them. The box is by far the biggest that we ever seen.
 EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature Edition Review
The card is tested and certified to rock at 600MHz core and 1600MHz memory. We can say you will get a royal treatment. The card is equipped with a nice EVGA cooler. It is interesting to note that the card uses a normal GeForce 7900 GT PCB probably redesigned to support such a high speeds. The Signature edition comes with Samsung 256MB rated at 1.2ns, which means that it is able to run at 1800MHz. The cooler is a little bit different from the reference one as it covers the memory chips as well. I guess that you have to cool the memory at such speeds.
We played with the overclocking and managed to overclock the EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature board to 665MHz core and 1850MHz memory. This is surpassing the default clock speeds of the GeForce 7900 GTX of 650/1600MHz. As both the GeForce 7900 GT and GTX cards actually use G71 core we imagine that if you clock them both at the same clock that you will reach the same performance. Well, we were right, as the e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature edition at 665MHz core and 1850MHz memory definitely can run faster than the much more expensive GeForce 7900 GTX.
We can clearly say that this is definitely the fastest GeForce 7900 GT card that we have come across. It will outrun even the more expensive GeForce 7900 GTX in many cases. You will get a royal treatment as EVGA customer support will be there for any single problem you might have. So even if the card brakes on you, you will get a new one on the next working day, at least in the USA. It might be a great deal for $370 as it will outperform the GeForce 7900 GTX cards that costs $500 or even more. The e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature puts down the best scores we have ever seen for a GeForce 7900 GT.
You get the cool box and a fast card what more can you ask. Can it actually get better than that? Well I guess it can, you an get two of those cards and overclock them and get some even more smashing results for $750 for both cards.
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