ASUS Extreme Dual N7800GT @ Trusted Reviews

**MIG-31** · Jan 13, 2006, 01:15 PM

There’s no denying that the whole world is going dual. Most top-of-the-line brand new PCs will sport dual-core CPUs this year and if you’re really serious about gaming, two graphics cards are a must. The main problem with two graphics cards however is noise. The boys in green and red are having a hard time keeping the fan noise on their single cards down to an acceptable level, let alone two. As anyone who has two graphics cards in their system will tell you - fast they may be but quiet they ‘ain’t’.

Noise then, is one of the benefits of this quite simply gargantuan card from Asus. It’s quite massive, measuring 245 x 130mm, so you’d better be sure you can fit it into your case before considering it. It’s this large because of the large heatsink and fan and extra power requirements from the two 7800 GT GPUs that Asus had mounted onto the PCB. Of course it’s not a new idea. 3Dfx did it ‘Back-in-the-day’ in 2001 with its ill-fated Voodoo 5 5500 sporting dual VSA-100 chips, ATI flirted with it with its Rage Fury Maxx and recently Gigabyte reinvigorated the genre with its 3D1, which featured two GeForce 6600GTs.
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MIG-31 DH News MOD Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 42,604 Rep Power: 186 System Specs	ASUS Extreme Dual N7800GT @ Trusted Reviews There’s no denying that the whole world is going dual. Most top-of-the-line brand new PCs will sport dual-core CPUs this year and if you’re really serious about gaming, two graphics cards are a must. The main problem with two graphics cards however is noise. The boys in green and red are having a hard time keeping the fan noise on their single cards down to an acceptable level, let alone two. As anyone who has two graphics cards in their system will tell you - fast they may be but quiet they ‘ain’t’. Noise then, is one of the benefits of this quite simply gargantuan card from Asus. It’s quite massive, measuring 245 x 130mm, so you’d better be sure you can fit it into your case before considering it. It’s this large because of the large heatsink and fan and extra power requirements from the two 7800 GT GPUs that Asus had mounted onto the PCB. Of course it’s not a new idea. 3Dfx did it ‘Back-in-the-day’ in 2001 with its ill-fated Voodoo 5 5500 sporting dual VSA-100 chips, ATI flirted with it with its Rage Fury Maxx and recently Gigabyte reinvigorated the genre with its 3D1, which featured two GeForce 6600GTs. _______________ Read The Review Here __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg!