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EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT 256MB Signature Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 02 June 2006 |
The Inquirer comes with a review on the EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature Edition video card. We already wrote about the single Signature edition card, we showed that this overclocked beast can run even faster than a more expensive GeForce 7900 GTX board. Now we've been lucky enough to get a hold of two of such cards and to test them in SLI configuration. You can actually order this nice looking box of tricks today. You can get this very limited edition for exactly $750 at Newegg and I am sure that there will be a few of these show-off cards in Europe. It's a good price and if you burn one or both of the cards, you will get a replacement the next business day.
 EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT 256MB Signature Review
Both cards are clocked at 600MHz core and 1600MHz memory and the package is quite extensive. You get everything you need, though we would have liked to see a game inside. EVGA's cooler covers the memory as well, so it will make the card a little bit stable. It is interesting that even when we heavily overclocked the cards we didn't have any stability issues. This time we managed to run the memory at even 1920MHz, quite amazing as the memory declared that it should work at 1800MHz only, that is at least what Samsung says. We ran the memory at 1850MHz settings, as 1920MHz was not stable at all times.
Just as previously, we tested a single EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT signature edition card at 600MHz core and 1800MHz memory. We also ran two cards together in SLI and compared them to the same cards overclocked to 665MHz core and 1850MHz memory. We then compared them to NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 GTX SLI setup at reference clock of 650MHz core and 1600MHz memory. We wanted to see whether the two cards could defeat the faster NVIDIA setup. They did well. You'd expect two e-GeForce 7900 GT Signature edition cards to be faster than one, well that's only the case when running at high resolutions.
Even the overclocked version won't do much better, as the game is CPU limited at these settings. A GeForce 7900 GTX SLI is slightly faster than the other cards. We are not disappointed with running the two cards together. In most of the cases, they are either faster or they will run at the speed of two GeForce 7900 GTX cards. It costs $750 for both cards and they will perform quite nicely. I can always recommend SLI for anyone that loves to play with FSAA and Anisotropic on. You won't have much luck with FSAA and HDR together but that is the only bad thing that comes when you buy the current NVIDIA monster.
The cards are available now and have superb customer support. As we mentioned, if anything happens to your cards you will get a new one on the next business day, which is great. We don't need to say much more than that, with the FSAA and Anisotropic filtering enabled on, it can get a smashing boost and ending up quite a lot faster than a single card. Now, that is a score that might justify the spend. What can I say, other than two are better than one?
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