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XFX XXX Edition GeForce 7800 GTX Video Card (512MB, PCI Express x16, Dual DVI)
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Pros
One-time top performer
Cons
Oversized card, oversized price
Bottom Line
Oversize card is powerful, but its price is not for the weak of heart.
XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB DDR3 XXX Edition
XXX Edition GeForce 7800 GTX Video Card (512MB, PCI Express x16, Dual DVI) Review, by Tom Mainelli February 2, 2006
PC gamers booed the $600 price tag of graphics cards with nVidia's original 7800 GTX chip---and then drooled as the cards broke graphics benchmarking records. People's reaction to XFX's new GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB DDR3 XXX Edition won't be any less vociferous and Pavlovian.
This shipping PCI Express card features a revved-up 7800 GTX chip, plus 512MB of DDR3 memory (up from 256MB), at a jaw-dropping price of $749. And in our tests, it blew away everything, including our favorite 256MB 7800 GTX board (the $570 EVGA e-Force 7800 GTX KO) and ATI's 512MB Radeon X1800XT ($599).
In our Quake 4 and Doom 3 tests, run at 1600 by 1200 resolution with antialiasing turned on, this XFX dominated. It cranked out frame rates of 72 frames per second and 70 fps, respectively, as compared to the EVGA's 54 fps and 55 fps, and the ATI's 56 fps and 58 fps.
The new XFX ruled in our Battlefront 2 tests (performed at the same settings), too. It generated 76 fps, versus 56 fps for the EVGA card and 69 fps for the ATI board. Predictably, the XFX's high price hurt its overall PCW Rating, despite the awesome performance. One additional knock against the XFX: Its massive (albeit remarkably quiet) cooling system causes the card to occupy two slots.
So is it worth the money? For 98 percent of PC users the answer is no. But if top-notch graphics performance is what you seek, this is the fastest you can get---for now.
Upshot: Oversize card is powerful, but price is not for the weak of heart.
Tom Mainelli
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance Comparison with Similar Graphics Cards
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| Battlefield 2 (1024 by 768) | 79.27 |
| Battlefield 2 (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 79.1 |
| Battlefield 2 (1600 by 1200) | 78.3 |
| Battlefield 2 (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 75.7 |
| Doom 3 (1024 by 768) | 93.53 |
| Doom 3 (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 92.33 |
| Doom 3 (1600 by 1200) | 91.4 |
| Doom 3 (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 70.13 |
| Far Cry (1024 by 768) | 87.4 |
| Far Cry (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 67.9 |
| Far Cry (1600 by 1200) | 87.13 |
| Far Cry (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 67.9 |
| Half-Life 2 (1024 by 768) | 123.43 |
| Half-Life 2 (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 119.47 |
| Half-Life 2 (1600 by 1200) | 103.63 |
| Half-Life 2 (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 84.4 |
| Halo (1024 by 768) | 141.3 |
| Halo (1600 by 1200) | 122.3 |
| Quake 4 (1024 by 768) | 127.23 |
| Quake 4 (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 119.53 |
| Quake 4 (1600 by 1200) | 107.93 |
| Quake 4 (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 72.03 |
| Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (1024 by 768) | 120.17 |
| Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 101.2 |
| Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (1600 by 1200) | 79.4 |
| Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 56.1 |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 (1024 by 768) | 82.43 |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 (1024 by 768, antialiasing) | 82.3 |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 (1600 by 1200) | 82.3 |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 (1600 by 1200, antialiasing) | 82.27 |
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Reviewed by: caboos_rules
Strengths: 512 GDDR3 mem at and effective speed of over 1.7GHfastest card out thereSLI
Weaknesses: bigtakes a lot of power
Overall: i bought a new system 2 weeks ago...AMD Athlon 64 FX-572X Western Digital Raptor 74.8GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA in RAID 02X Corsair 1024MB TwinX PC3200 XL PRO Dual Channel Kit w/ LEDAsus A8N32-SLI DeluxeEnermax Liberty Modular Power Supply, 620W 2X XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MByou can throw anything at it and it will stay well above 250 FPS....doubled up this is the most powerful thing out there
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