DH Reviews: XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition

craig5320

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The Geforce 9800 GTX has been around for some time now and the maturing of the product brings with it a selection of cards which look to improve on the reference specification or design. We have one such card on our test bench today, XFX’s 9800 GTX Black Edition from a handpicked range of cards which feature enhanced core and memory speeds for exceptional performance and stability.

We will be running the card through a selection of the latest games at resolutions up to 2560x1600 as well as delving into some Blu-Ray playback testing and overclocking in order to establish how much of an improvement it is over the reference model.

LukeK

absolutely lovely !

humonous

brilliant review and as usual leading the way for the other tech sites to copy (badly).

I am happy with my new card but this seems another killer card from XFX.

craig5320

Great price for that card I must say, I was expecting £400+ like i've been seeing recently, but I was quite surprised by that.

Matth

Well, shows their selection works, the reference did not hit the same core overclock as the "black" out of the box setting, and the black still had a little in reserve.

Makes sense, I suppose, they probably test them at a slightly higher speed, then knock it down a notch or two to give a safety margin, and while a single overclocker can seek the limits of their individual card, marketing a pre-overclocked edition requires a setting the a reasonable number of samples will achieve.