Asus VW195S

Advantages: Flexible
Disadvantages: -

...are eliminated with balanced architecture and peak bandwidths up to 6.4GB/s. AGP8X AGP8X (AGP 3.0) enables enhanced graphics performance with high bandwidth up to 2.12GB/s. ASUS CPU Lock Free The P5PE-VM offers the CPU Lock Free feature, which allows you to adjust CPU multiplier to 14x. The reduction of multiplier value provides more flexibility for increasing external FSB frequency to raise memory bus bandwidth. CPU Lock Free boosts overall system performance by making synchronous modification possible. Enjoy better performance at the same CPU operation speed and improve your system without pushing the CPU to the limit. Serial ATA technology Serial ATA provides scalable performance. With up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, Serial ATA is faster than current Parallel ATA. CrashFree BIOS2 The CrashFree BIOS 2 feature now includes... Read review

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Advantages: Great speed, efficient cooling system, impressive specifications
Disadvantages: High power consumption, 8800 GTX is faster

...▀ ▀ ▀ A small introduction to the 2900XT(R600) family. ▀ ▀ ▀ The 2900XT family is the first video cards family created for PC market and designed by ATI based on Microsoft unified shader Direct3D 10 Shader Model 4.0 / OpenGL 2.0 architecture.It is ATI's second generation unified shader design, based on the "Xenos" GPU implemented in the Xbox 360 game console, which used the world's first such shader architecture.Boosting 700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process (by comparision ,Intel best dual core processor intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 has "only" 291 million transistors) and having 320 stream processing units this card surpassed the latest king the ATI Radeon X1900XTX but it still behind of NVIDIA top product the 8800 GTX. ►►►The card: ASUS EAH2900XT/G/HTVDI ◄... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent price to performance ratio, Asus is faster than other n6600gt's
Disadvantages: Needs additional power (system nedds +300W) and reaches some high temperatures

...I had read alot about a wide range of graphics gards before choosing the Asus N6600GT. Price compared to performance capabilities was a major factor in my selection. I went for the Asus version over another manufacturer as its is slightly quicker, Asus have used GDDR3 memory (named manufacture) for the card and going for a named manufacturer gives it a better performance, even though some of its compariables have a faster clock and ram speed. The only downpoint is the card requires an additional power source using the same connector as a hard drive. The installation is quite easy, just follow the quick start instructions and its very straight forward. When fitting the card, if possible, try and leave the slot below free, just to give it more space allowing the fan to work and not blowing hot air directly onto another card. There were... Read review

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