EVGA e-GeForce 7950 GT KO SLI
Introduction, Specifications, and Bundle
As enthusiasts, we'd all love to own a killer quad-core powered rig complete with a healthy amount of RAM, super-fast hard drives, and a pair of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce 8800 GTX cards pushing the pixels. The kind coin required to assemble a system like this puts them well out of reach for the majority of us, however, hence the immense popularity of more affordable, mainstream products like the one we're going to talk about today, EVGA's e-GeForce 7950 GT KO.
As the newest member of the GeForce 7 family, the GeForce 7950 GT has a lot going for it. The GPU offers all of the features of its more expensive sibling, the GeForce 7900 GTX, and arguably more thanks to the full HDCP support that comes courtesy of the necessary crypto-ROMs. EVGA has taken the 7950 GT, and cranked things up a notch by goosing the card's GPU and memory frequencies, offering a lifetime warranty, and throwing in a nice assortment of accessories and software. We took a couple of EVGA's e-GeForce 7950 GT KO cards for a spin and have our findings laid out on the pages ahead. It turned out to be pretty good ride...
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NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Shading Architecture Vertex Shaders Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0 Displacement mapping Geometry instancing Infinite length vertex programs
Pixel Shaders
Next-Generation Texture Engine
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NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0 Technology ._DVC color controls ._DVC image sharpening controls NVIDIA SLI Technology ._Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance ._Scales performance on over 60 top PC games and applications NVIDIA PureVideo Technology ._Dedicated on-chip video processor ._High-definition H.264, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration ._Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing ._Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) ._High-quality video scaling ._Video color correction ._Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window Composited Desktop Hardware Engine ._Video post-processing ._Real-Time esktop compositing ._Accelerated antialiased text rendering ._Pixel shader-driven special effects and animation Advanced Display Functionality ._Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz ._Dual-link DVI capability to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution digital flat panel displays up to 2560x1600 ._Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution ._Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability Advanced Engineering ._Designed for PCI Express x16 ._Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory Operating Systems ._Windows XP/XP 64/ME/2000 ._Built for Microsoft Windows Vista ._Linux ._Macintosh OS X Software/Game Bundle ._Driver CD ._Hitman: Blood Money Accessories Bundle ._User Manual ._1 x S-Video cable ._1 x HD Out Dongle ._2 x DVI-to-VGA adapter ._PCI Express power cable
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EVGA includes a well-balanced group of accessories and software with their e-GeForce 7950 GT KO. Along with the card itself and an obligatory driver / utility CD, EVGA throws in a basic user's manual, an S-Video cable, an HD Component Output dongle, a 6-pin PCI Express power adapter, and a pair of DVI-to-DB15 monitor adapters. The utilities contained on the driver CD include trial versions Snapstream Beyond Media and Ulead DVD Movie Factory, and a second CD bundled with the card included a full-version of the game Hitman: Blood Money. Hitman: Blood Money may not be a cutting edge title, but it was very well received in the gaming community and garnered numerous high ratings in various reviews. Kudos to EVGA for bundling in a game that's worth playing.
