Strengths: Good upgrade over my 8800gts (G80 core)
Quiet cooler, great CUDA performance
Weakness: Long, dual PCIe power required
MSRP needs to drop to get its price/performance in line with ATI's current offerings.
With the price drops due to ATI's 4850 offering, the price on this card made it impossible to resist buying. This card is about 25% faster than my 8800gts for gaming, so considering I sold the 8800GTS for about what I paid for this after rebate, it was essentially a free upgrade.
The card is very long, so I had to pull a removable drive bay in my Antec P180 case to fit it in - minor con. I use this for gaming and folding@home, and the GPU2 client for F@H produces about 5500ppd on this card, versus 3500 on the 8800gts. So very nice improvement there.
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Fairly big but just about all cards are these days. Runs smooth, stays cool, little noise. Have not overclocked it. Good performance for the money. I'm not a high performance user so it works just fine for me. Not much of a game player so no idea how well it performs under existing titles. Very satisfied so far.
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Having the Accelero Xtreme cooler as its key attraction, the Inno3D iChiLL 9800 GTX delivers on a number of levels, from pricing to performance, low noise emission and heat output.
Nice Upgrade
Strengths: Good upgrade over my 8800gts (G80 core) Quiet cooler, great CUDA performance
Weakness: Long, dual PCIe power required MSRP needs to drop to get its price/performance in line with ATI's current offerings.
With the price drops due to ATI's 4850 offering, the price on this card made it impossible to resist buying. This card is about 25% faster than my 8800gts for gaming, so considering I sold the 8800GTS for about what I paid for this after rebate, it was essentially a free upgrade.
The card is very long, so I had to pull a removable drive bay in my Antec P180 case to fit it in - minor con. I use this for gaming and folding@home, and the GPU2 client for F@H produces about 5500ppd on this card, versus 3500 on the 8800gts. So very nice improvement there.
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