EVGA nVidia GeForce 9800GT 1 GB 2DVI/HDCP PCI-Express Video Card 01G-P3-N981-TR

by EVGA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 8.2 x 2 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001OV7MIC
• Item model number: 01G-P3-N981-TR
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 2, 2009

Product Description

The features of the 9800 GT 01G-P3-N981-TR include the GeForce 9800 GT (600MHz clock) chipset, 1GB of GDDR3 memory with a 900MHz clock with an effective rate of 1800MHz, 1500MHz Shader Clock, 112 processing cores, PCI Express 2.0 compatibility, Dual DVI-I connectors, 57.6GB per second memory bandwidth, NVIDIA unified architecture, Full Microsoft DirectX 10, NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology, NVIDIA PhysX Ready, NVIDIA CUDA technology, and OpenGL 2.1 support. Built for Microsoft Windows Vista. This product comes with a one year warranty with an additional year free if registered at www.evga.com within 30 days of purchase.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best bang for the buck, October 20, 2009

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S. A. May "SAM" (Columbia, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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Purchased this card to replace existing EGVA 8500GT (1GB) on a 4GB E6580 CPU and couldn't be happier. First of all, I ordered the card on a Wednesday and it arrived two days later, using Amazon's free shipping. Amazing! The card is single slot but very large, luckily so is my case, but still had a tight fit attaching the two power cables. Well worth any effort, of course, once I turned on my machine and installed the latest drivers. Coupled with my new 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor, this card is just beautiful. Runs everything I throw at it with blinding speed, graphics options maxed out. Very, very pleased with both Amazon and the quality of the card. Highly recommended.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent board, December 13, 2009

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Robert Supuy "Robert" (San José, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

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I purchased two of this video card for my home gaming computer, you know, for SLI. They are fast, but be prepared, because they really put the things hot inside the computer's case if you do not have enough ventilation. Also, the power requirements are high, so your PSU must match their needs. I had to put more fans and change my PSU in order to meet the requirements.
The service of Amazon? always first class.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Takes only one card slot, April 17, 2010

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Paul K. Mckneely - See all my reviews
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I am not much of a video game player. Otherwise I probably would have bought an ATI-Radeon. But I do a lot of 3D CGI graphics animation, HD video editing and multichannel Soft-synth music composition. This board has full support for 3D with up-to-date OpenGL drivers. Its drivers are also stereo-scopic ready for those of you who want to attach a 3D monitor some day. I have also been writing a compiler for a parallel programming language that I have been developing and the future of raw performance seems to be going in the direction of GPGPU. This board is suitable for all of these purposes (with 112 GPU cores) and is about the most powerful video card you can get that only takes up one card slot. This board is suitable for CUDA programming as well as OpenCL, both of which are supported by NVidia's SDK. For those of you who do buy this board, don't forget that it sucks enough power that it needs its own direct power connection and will put out a shrill whine if you fail to provide it with one. I could not be happier with this board for the price. It meets all of my expectations and more. I use this video board in a system with the following:

CoolerMaster HAF932 AMD Limited Edition "Red Dragon"
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Quad-core processor (3.2 GHz)
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P Motherboard (/w 8GB DDR3)
Microsoft Windows 7-64 Home Premium Edition
Antec EarthWatts 750 Watt ATX12v v2.3 Power Supply Unit
LG Blu-Ray Internal R/W Drive
Western Digital 500 GB PATA Drive (System Disk)
Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA (Data Disk)

I am delighted that my AMD Phenom II X4 955 only draws 55 Watts when the CPU is at 100% utilization doing heavy HD renders. Supposedly it is a 125W part but I have never seen it draw even half that. I do not over-clock, and that is probably why. Even though my whole system is pretty fully-loaded, it only draws about 260 Watts with everything hooked to it according to the APC UPS it is connected to. This does not jive with the reviewer who said you need at least a 400 W power supply. I have to ask him "What all do you have in you system?" He certainly didn't do his homework. Everyone should realize that the video card manufacturer can't predict what all you are going to load in your system.