XFX GeForce 7800GT 256 MB DDR3 Dual DVI Video Card ( PVT70GUDF7 )

by XFX

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AQNAFQ
• Item model number: PVT70GUDF7
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,426 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2005

Product Description

PC Gaming moves up to a new plateau and it's ready for you. Featuring a revolutionary superscalar architecture and backed by the NVIDIA ForceWare software, the GeForce 7800 GPU delivers ultra-realistic effects, unmatched features, and rock-solid stability so you can play your game the way it's meant to be played. NVIDIA SLI Technology delivers up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games NVIDIA PureVideo Technology - The combination of high-definition video processors and NVIDIA DVD decoder software delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for all video content to turn your PC into a high-end home theater. (Feature requires supported video software.) PCI Express Support - Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, like id Software's Doom 3, that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects 128-bit Studio-Precision Computation through the entire pipeline prevents image defects due to low precision and ensures the best image quality for even the most demanding applications 256-bit Memory Interface delivers more memory bandwidth and efficiency to power the latest games and applications at blazing speeds 64-bit Floating Point Texture Filtering and Blending - Based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic, NVIDIA's 64-bit texture implementation delivers state-of-the-art high dynamic-range (HDR) visual effects through floating point capabilities in shading, filtering, tex

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Card, bad instructions, June 20, 2006

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Jake McKee (Austin, TX, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: XFX GeForce 7800GT 256 MB DDR3 Dual DVI Video Card ( PVT70GUDF7 ) (Personal Computers)

You know how it goes - you bring home a smokin hot piece of new tech and can't wait to get it running and start playing with it. But some little small installation issue causes problems that drive you nuts for hours. Then when you finally figure it out, you're so irritated with the manufacturer for their horrid documentation that you just walk away for a while.

Such was the case with this card.

I've had zero problems once I finally figured out the installation issues, but getting it installed correctly drove me nuts. I have an Alienware with Nvidia SLI motherboard, allowing me to have two video cards working in tandem. On top of simply popping the case and plugging this card into a PCI slot, there were two other things that needed to happen...neither of which had decent explanation, pictures, or details. The picture, for instance, was literally a black and white scanned copy of a point and shoot bad photo.

Here's the two tasks to make sure to do when you setup dual cards:

1. On this card, there is a small piece of circuit board that must be removed and turned around. This basically tells the card that you're putting in two cards rather than one.

2. There is an odd black "bridge" that must be inserted to "lash together" the two cards. It doesn't seem to matter the direction it's put on, so long as it's firmly connected.

But since the installation, I've been absolutely flying through my Battlefield 2 rounds!

(Oh, and one other note... you can't use dual monitors when the SLI dual video card tech is turned on - you can toggle the SLI on/off in the Nvidia control panel)