DH Reviews: XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition

***craig5320*** · Jun 12, 2008, 09:40 AM

Read The Review Here
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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 · Jun 12, 2008, 02:16 PM

absolutely lovely !

humonous · Jun 12, 2008, 02:20 PM

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*** · Jun 12, 2008, 04:33 PM

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 · Jun 15, 2008, 12:21 PM

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.