bit-tech.net - 10/9/2008
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Water, water everywhere! Well, only if you've fitted it wrong! We take a look at a pre-watercooled pair of 9800 GTX+ cards in SLI from ECS to see if they can compete with the newer GPUs. Can the 9800 GTX+ ride the wave of awesome frame rates, or is it just all washed out? We find out!
bigbruin.com - 10/15/2008
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Integrated graphics solutions have been gaining strength over
the past year, and while the current capabilities might...
exclude them from serious 3D game play, they have become quite well suited for desktop and HTPC applications. The last few waves of ...
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ECS GF9300T-A Black Series GeForce 9300 Motherboard - ...
digit-life.com - 10/13/2008
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Introduction It's been long since we published the
last baseline review of Low-End solutions. Such graphics cards...
have been considered ill-suited for modern games, often failing to provide acceptable performance even at moderate quality settings. But ...
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ATI RADEON HD 4670 512MB Graphics Card
phoronix.com - 10/7/2008
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Back in March we looked at the AMD
Radeon HD 3200 graphics with AMD's 780G Chipset and...
found it to be a reputable performer. Its performance was almost identical to that of the discrete Radeon HD 2400PRO graphics card and was capable of running some ...
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... and perfectly solid, it could do with a bit of a rethink exhausting hot air straight down is baffling, and the fact that its exhausted into the case and not out of it isnt going to help internal system temperatures one bit. Its also frustratingly loud in comparison to the stock 9800 GTX+ cooler even with the fan speed set to low, and when set to high its intrusively noisy, having been annoying the rest of the office with its irritatingly loud drone for most of the week. Link: Bit Tech
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... SLI performs well in some situations, it cant rescue the ECS Hydra 9800 GTX+ SLI pack from its more serious flaws. Poorly built cards, running at stock speed that disintegrate under load are not worthy of your money, no matter how bling bling the over engineered cooling system is. If you really want to get into the world of watercooled graphics cards, do it properly with a custom loop and not with this half baked kit thats high on ideas, but desperately low on execution.
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Bit Tech - Were sorry to say it, but the ECS 9800 GTX+ Hydra SLI kit is a bit of a disappointment. The build quality of the GPU cooling and waterblocks is probably the most galling of faults we almost couldnt believe it when we saw the shoddily fitted waterblocks when we took the cards out of the box, and the situation only got worse when the PWM coolers literally fell apart once wed started testing. The baffling inclusion of the blue LED lit paddle fan adds to the list of flaws they have absolutely no influence on card's operating temperatures and are so woefully ...
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... while SLI performs well in some situations, it cant rescue the ECS Hydra 9800 GTX+ SLI pack from its more serious flaws. Poorly built cards, running at stock speed that disintegrate under load are not worthy of your money, no matter how bling bling the over engineered cooling system is. If you really want to get into the world of watercooled graphics cards, do it properly with a custom loop and not with this half baked kit thats high on ideas, but desperately low on execution. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...gtx-sli-pack/1
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