THE 9800 MONSTER

Hey don't run away it's not a real monster I'm talking about the Nvidia GeForce9800 GX2.

DualGPU systems are very trendy in recent time and whole story begun with ATi “Gemini” project. Idea was born long time ago, when two graphics processors were integrated into one graphics card, but that idea didn’t get much popularity until now. On the other hand, ATi Radeon HD 3870X2 turned out as accessible to most users and at the same time very powerful solution. So all doubts in making investment in such card can be shattered in pieces.

As usual after these (un)expected success, competition “returned fire”. GeForce 9800GX2 is not, to be honest, a true rival to ATi’s “two-headed beast” neither by price nor by performances and it is obvious that nVIDIA won’t produce only “singleGPU” models after HD 3870X2.

The 9800GX2 comes with a good bundle .There is Company of Heroes with Dx10 patch disk, besides there is usual stuff like VGA-DVI converter disc with drivers and manuals. The graphic card is very heavy,it's black except the XFX logo and there are small openings for better cooling. The fan inside produces no noise until 60% of it's rpm.Voltage connectors are 8-pin and 6-pin and they require 200W of power.

The card is undoubtedly a powerful product but now its meant only for the Richie rich kind of people.It gives performance but at a rate around rs 45000 it is not a good buy.