Graphic Cards : Gigabyte NX78X256V-B
Serious gamers are always on the haunt for some serious graphic cards which offers best graphics at a decent price tag.
Gigabyte NX78X256V-B which is powered by NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX VPU supports PCI Express. It is stashed with 256MB GDDR3(wow!) and 256-bit memory interface.
Like most of the new cards, it supports HDTV function. IT also supports sual DVI-I/D-SUB/TV OUT. And for video editing, yes, VIVO function is supported by this gadget.
With an incredible 24 pixel pipeline, this could well be the industry’s most powerful and technically advanced graphics accelerator card.
It supports DX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0, DX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0. IT has got an accelerated textures access with up to 16 textures per rendering pass and support for 16-bit and 32-bit floating point formats, sRGB texture format for gamma textures.
It is a full 128-bit FP Precision Graphics Pipeline and has a native support for 32 / 64 / 128 bits per pixel rendering modes.
Now for gadgeteers who might be worried about the OS issues and support, there is no need to worry. This gadget is Windows Vista ready but this gadget needs a PCI Express slot.
The PCI Express bus architecture has been a revolution. This doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.
When tested with Doom 3, it was able to fulfill some complex digital lights and realistic shadows which had been very difficult to achieve with some other Graphic cards.
It has the ability to drive the industry’s largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560×1600.
But resolution are limited to the monitors attached to them. And widescreen resolutions of 16:9 / 16:10 aspect ratio monitors are only supported on Windows XP.
The tester have found that, the overclocking for the Gigabyte GV-NX78X256V-B did not deviate from the rest of the GeForce 7800 GTX crowd and it did not get over heated which has been a problem with many graphic cards.
Overall comparing the prices and features this could well be ranked 9/10
