TheTechLounge has reviewed the BFG 9800 GX2 1GB version.
It would be very, very hard not to covet this video card. I know I recently said that the 9800 GTX was the sexy card, but this one might actually look nicer, eye of the beholder and all. And it's not just skin-deep, this card is faaast, and because of that, we can overlook its frightening heat production and power consumption.
To read the full review, click here.
Guru3D has reviewed the new Galaxy silent heat pipe 9600 GT. If you are looking for a completely noiseless budget gaming card, this is it!
Galaxy's GeForce 9600 GT 512MB Silent heatpipe graphics card is once again a fine product to own. I like the somewhat customized design and I definitely am charmed by the cooler. Even on a hot day, it performed good enough in our test-environment. You however will need decent airflow inside that PC of yours to get that residual heat from the innards of your PC and you need to remember that the cooler is pretty bulky. Bulky or not, it will only eat up one slot, as the big heatink was placed on the rear-side of the card, in some cases at that position a x1 PCIe slot is located but not really a big deal. Pretty clever really, it has Galaxy written all over it as they really do think about these things.
To read the full review, click here.
Guru3D has reviewed the new Geforce 9500GT. The card costs under a 100 dollars and is aimed at the budget market.
With this product Galaxy definitely set a new standard in the budget range of products though. Never have I seen a product in this price-category so pimped up. Excellent clocks, good overclockability, sound and excellent PCB design. Heck they even slapped a custom cooler on top of the product. The end-result is an extraordinary performing and looking product, within it's defined product category. Props to Galaxy for doing so.
This new baby from Leadtek packs quite a punch for a low price.
Tweaktown reviewed it and had the following conclusions,
While the bundle was clearly on the lighter side of things, the cooler of choice and overall performance on offer here from the 9600 GSO Extreme is excellent. If you find yourself wanting a quick 9600 GSO that performs pretty much like a 9600GT; sometimes better, sometimes slightly worse, for the same price and with better noise levels and temperatures, this card is great.
To read the full 18 page review, click here.
The fine folks over at HotHardware have just reviewed the new ASUS EN9800 GTX.
Thanks to its factory overclock, the ASUS EN9800GTX TOP outperformed a stock GeForce 9800 GTX across the board and compared favorably with our reference systems. There are times when the reference 8800 GTX can beat out the reference 9800 GTX, but the EN9800GTX TOP's faster clock speeds give it an edge most of the time. If performance is your bag and you're in the market for a relatively affordable NVIDIA GPU, then you should definitely lean towards an overclocked version of the 9800 GTX, like the EN9800GTX TOP, in order to make sure it outperforms its predecessor.
To read the full review, click here.
Mikhailtech has posted a review of the Palit 9600 GSO.
I really like that this card had a very efficient custom fan, and also silent at its default speeds. The fan is programmed to start at low speed when you start your computer and it is not loud until you load the Nvidia drivers, like most of the other cards.
The card also received Mikhailtech editor's choice award.
To read the full review click here.
Xbitlabs has posted a review of the Zotac Geforce 9800 GTX.
Highs:
- The best performance among contemporary singe-chip graphics cards;
- Wide range of supported FSAA modes;
- Excellent quality of anisotropic filtering;
- Hardware HD-video decoding and post-processing support;
- Sound over HDMI;
- No compatibility issues;
- Relatively low power consumption;
- Highly efficient cooling;
- Low noise;
- Bundle bonus (Lost: The Video Game)
Lows:
- Long PCB may not fit into some system cases;
- Requires two power supply connectors;
- No software for playback of HD video content bundled with the card.
To read the full review, click here.
The fine folks over at Guru3D have a review for the new Geforce 9800 GTX+
One of the most stunning facts for the GTX+ however was the flexibility in overclocking. I means seriously, this was the real deal for sure, we boosted the already impressive 728 core, 1836 shader and 2200 MHz clock frequencies pretty easily towards an amazing 860 MHz on the core, 2133 on the shader domain and 2490 MHz on the memory. That instantly will add another 15-20% performance towards your framerate. So tweaking wise this also is a very interesting product. Though in all fairness .. overclocking results can differ per batch and board partner.
Next to the smaller 55nm fab, internally some small features might have been altered as well. The GTX+ does seem to be a tad more efficient compared to it's 65nm counterpart. In fact is was performing precisely the same as the Black Edition GeForce 9800 GTX we just tested. Bang for your bucks people.
It was also awarded the Guru3D great value award
To read the full review click here.
A Chinese website is showing a picture of a 9800 GT graphics card by NVIDIA. It seems to be the only single slot design for the 9800 series. It is still unknown whether or not this card will beat the 4850 in performance numbers.
Source: http://vga.zol.com.cn/
The price of Geforce 9800 GTX has already been dropped down to $199 in competition with ATI's excellent release of the similarly priced Radeon 4850.
Head over to NewEgg to grab your 9800 GTX for $199 today!
The nice people over at PC Perspective got their hands on an NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GTX+ which is supposed to hit the market by the mid of July. From the performance point of view, it is a tiny amount faster than the 9800 GTX as well as the Radeon 4850 but it also is priced at $229 which is 30 dollars higher than the Radeon 4850 as well as the 9800 GTX. It's launch date however is going to be around the mid/end of July which gives AMD ample time to gain some important market share with their latest graphics card, the Radeon 4850.
Specs:
My only gripe from the card was it's power consumption. Since it is basically an overclocked version of the 9800 GTX, the load requirement of 310 watts and idle requirement of 204 watts may be alarming considering the Radeon card only consumes 179/285 watts for idle and load requirements respectively.
To read the full review from PC Perspective, click here.
Sharkyextreme has a nice review of the new PNY XLR8 Geforce 9800 GX2 graphics card.
Before setting up the card, you should remember that PNY recommends a whooping 580W power supply before you can get this baby up and running. You can red the full review
The PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB is a definite high-end video card, and it allows enthusiast gamers to scale to unheard of heights. The beauty of one-card SLI is that it's like having an extra GPU-on-demand, ready to push to a higher resolution or greater detail level, all without losing much in the way of framerates. This card will not blow you away at lower resolutions, and pretty well requires a high-end system and LCD configuration just to make sense. But for those with the necessary supporting hardware, the PNY XLR8 GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB will supply both eye candy and silky-smooth game play.
