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The Next-Generation Video
Card
Nvidia has done it again, with it's newest video
card, the geforce 7800 GTX. If money is no
object and you demand the best, this is the
video card for you.
The 7800 GTX, which promises 600 MHz, 256 MB of
256-bit DDR3 memory and a graphics core clock
speed of 430 MHz, is the absolute fastest video
card, to date, that money can buy.
Despite the high clock speeds, the 7800 utilizes
a single-slot cooling solution. This is made
possible because of the processor size which is
20 NM smaller then their previous 8600's. Also
contributing to the cooling of the card is the
improved power managment system, which
automatically turns off unused portions of the
chip.
The 7800GTX is equipped with 24 pixel shader
units and 8 vertex shader units. With over 200
GFLOP's of shading avaliable, Nvidia raises the
bar, once again, on video card's graphics and
performance.
This is all in just one videocard, pair them up
in SLI mode and you have the best video cards in
terms of speed, stability and appearance. One
thing to watch however, when running dual cards
in SLI mode, is that unless you have a top of
the line processor, such as the FX-55 you may
find your video cards waiting on your processor
to catch up. In this case you may want to hold
off on getting both cards untill you upgrade
your processor
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