Gigabyte GV-R98X256D RADEON 9800XT (8)
Bluetooth 12 Dec 2003

Conclusion

Christmas is around the corner and if you have the spare cash for a high end graphics card, the Gigabyte GV-R98X256D is worth the consideration. With great performance and performs slightly faster than the PowerCOlor 9800XT and the FX5950Ultra, this card seems to be the fastest so far in our test labs.

The card resembles the Powercolor card as they are both based on the reference card design. In our inspection of the card, we noticed that the fan spins slowly compared to the Radeon 9700pro series of cards thus there is less noise. We also noticed that the heatsink covering the ram is quite warm during tests when overclocked. We removed the covers and found that the ram are simply attached with rubber like thermal pads. This might not be good enough if you want to overclock it further. The fan used is also slow and might be good enough for good overclocking.

The package comes complete with the power connectors, games, V-tuner. V-tuner simply allows you to overclock the Core and Mem all within Windows.

Price Information ~ USD 480.00

Ratings

Here are my ratings out of 10.

Gold Award

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