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| Author: SorX | |||
| Posted: 23:00, March 19th 2006 | |||
| Link: http://www.giga-byte.com/ | |||
| Score: 9 out of 10 [?] | |||
| Price: £199.99 | |||
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Conclusion
I really don’t know where to start. Well, this card gives amazing performance on every benchmark, it can play all the games on the market with high details, Also it comes with a collection of gadgets and software, which is very nice. 2 games to occupy you.
One thing I must mention about this card, the fan. After I installed it and turned on my PC my ears bled. Immediately I will have to buy a new fan for this card, however GIGABYTE very nicely added a feature on this card which underclocks the card when it is not in use and the fan spins at a much lower RPM, this made it almost silent. But when gaming the fan goes into crazy mode again.
My final words, a brilliant card, go for it if you can afford it! It does “upgrade your life” as GIGABYTE would say. Another thing is, that with a 3700+ the card is slightly bottle necked, I found this out when doing the 3Dmark06, the CPU score is very low, also when I overclocked my CPU the HL2 stress test score went up. This is enough to suggest the CPU is bottle necking the card.
| Pros | Cons |
| Amazing performance | Noisy fan |
| Comes with lots of gadgets | A bit expensive |
| Box looks very nice | Can be easily bottlenecked by CPU |
| Fan is 'smart' |
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