Gigabyte GV-R98P128D 128M Review (6)
Overclocker 12 May 2003

Conclusion

As we can see from the benchmarks, the Gigabyte GV-R98P128D has proven itself in the performanace against the Radeon 9700pro card. With a 10~15% boost in performance over the Radeon 9700pro, it is one of the most promising stars of the year. Even at Hi Quality modes, we see that the difference is also around 10%.

Installation is rather straightforward, the only thing you ought to remember is to plug in the aux power supply for the graphics card, otherwise the graphics card will not function properly. This time round, it uses the normal 4 pin connector (meant for your HDD rather than FDD) which is slightly bigger. This is a good choice since that most PSU has more of that than the small little 4 pin plug for your Floppy disk drive.

The software bundle that comes with the board should be sufficient for most of your needs like DVD playback etc. It comes with some games which are deemed a bit outdated. V-tuner is bundled and it proves to be one of the easiest to use software to overclock the VPU.

This card uses Hyundai 2ns memory chips, but it is a pity that they seemed to have locked the memory clock beyond 400Mhz. This makes it difficult to try to overclock the memory to its potential of 500Mhz or slightly above that. Heatsinks are also not used for the memory chips and the back of the core. This could have improved the overclockability and stability of the card.

Overall, this is a good card to own if you require enormous graphics manipulation. Here are my ratings

Ratings

Here are my ratings out of 10.

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