Hardware Roundup: NVIDIA 9800GX2 Edition
Category: Video Cards, Manufacturers, General NewsPosted: March 18, 2008 03:10PM
Author: kingdingeling
The end of an NDA is probably one of the most anticipated days for hardware enthusiasts. March 18th was one of these, as the NDA for the NVIDIA 9800GX2 ended today (see OCCs review here), and there's a LOT on the web about them! Foxconn is launching their card today, which will however not be an ordinary 9800GX2. They will be using only Japanese solid capacitors, which have a up to 6.25x long life as normal capacitors. Foxconn also added a dual input power filter, which leads to more stability and reliablity, especially interesting to us overclockers. Moving to the software side of things, Foxconn released the FOXWARE (does it sound familiar?!) for advanced overclocking and monitoring.
With the launch of the card, there are also a ton of reviews available online. We'll kick it off with HotHardware, which have a review of the 9800GX2 combined with the 790i Ultra SLI chipset posted. These guys also seem to be the only review site up to now that have used an Asus 9800GX2. Reviews for the XFX 9800GX2 can be found at NVNews, Legit Reviews, Bjorn3D, [H]ardOCP and NeoSeeker.
- Foxconn 9800GX2-1024 Press Release
- NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI and the 9800GX2 Review @ HotHardware
- GeForce 9800GX2 Review @ NVNews
- XFX GeForce 9800GX2 Review @ Legit Reviews
- XFX 9800GX2 Review @ Bjorn3D
- XFX GeForce 9800GX2 Review @ [H]ardOCP
- XFX 9800GX2 Review @ NeoSeeker
