EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO Superclock AGP 8X Review - Page 1 of 3
Review By Mike Chambers - March 2, 2006
INTRODUCTION
Today, we take a look at the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GS CO Superclock AGP 8X graphics card. As NVIDIA was mmaking the transition to the PCI-Express graphics standard, new product offerings based on the soon-to-be-obsolete Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) were declining.
However, early last month NVIDIA announced the GeForce 7800 GS AGP, which is targeted at extending the gaming usefulness of those remaining high-end AGP systems.
Effective Cooling with Less Noise
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EVGA is one of NVIDIA's top add-in card partners and they typically offer a variety of graphics cards for a given chipset. Their e-GeForce 7800 GS AGP lineup varies in both GPU and memory clock speed and is comprised of the following models:
The e-GeForce 7800 GS base model operates at reference clock speeds, which are dictated by NVIDIA. All models are AGP 8X with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. Graphics-specialized GDDR3 memory delivers more memory bandwidth per second, which is especially beneficial when 4X and higher levels of antialiasing are used.
ACCESSORIES
Included accessories consist of a well-written user's guide, driver installation CD, VGA-to-DVI adapter, 4-pin power cable splitter, and s-video adapter.
Accessories
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Plastic product packaging keeps the graphics card well-protected during shipping.
TEST SYSTEM
It's been close to two years since NVIDIA released an AGP version of the GeForce 6800 Ultra, which is no longer manufactured. A new high-end AGP part based on the GeForce 7800 Series should be well-received as it provides an upgrade path for the AGP user base.
Attractive Design
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Two years ago, many of us were gaming with systems that were using a socket-754 Athlon 64 processor and nForce3 motherboard chipset. I stepped back in time and assembled such a system for this review.
