Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review

**Capper** · May 29th, 2008

Like many gamers, we anticipated a heated videocard war would take place this past year between Nvidia and AMD. But instead of a knock-down, drag out fight between two heavyweight contenders, we instead witnessed Nvidia dancing around the ring with its 8800 series GPUs while the company formerly known as ATI nary made an attempt at the performance crown. In recent months AMD has finally responded with its HD 3870, and while it still doesn't manage to regain the lead, it did prompt Nvidia to release a new series in its lineup, the 9x00. Or did it?

Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review
Paul Lilly

JazzyJake · May 29th, 2008

Cool, nice review Paul

screwballl · May 29th, 2008

greeat review Paul!
Now if I can just get my hands on a 8800 of some sort I would be happy.. I don't mind last generation, especially when it is only 3-10fps lower then that 9800...

**drew and not u** · May 29th, 2008

Maybe in their press release they mistyped 8900GTX and just ran with it.

**One4yu2c** · May 29th, 2008

Nvidia kind of shot themselves in the foot by already releasing the G92 core in 8800 trim. The 9800GTX destroys the original G80 based 8800 cards, and by itself, the pricing isn't bad either. But compared with the second run 8800GT and second run 8800GTS, the 9800GTX loses a bit of bang/buck.

screwballl · May 29th, 2008

agreed, the early G92 release was a slap in the face... especially among us techies that can see that the 8800GTS 512MB is about as fast or faster then some of the 9x00 series

qazwsx · May 29th, 2008

Nice review, yeah I also think nvidia have made a big mistake with the 8800GTS/9800GTX thing. It certainly blows away the G80 though, and that cards no slacker.

It seems to run pretty cool, my 8800GTS is running at 55*c idle, although im guessing thats because theres probs a huge blob of paste, but it works so im not changing it...

**One4yu2c** · May 29th, 2008

The GPU runs relatively cool (temps were taken in an open-air testbed), but the card itself (heatsink and PCB) get very hot to the touch.

screwballl · May 29th, 2008

would be nice to see side tests with MX2 and ICD7 to see what kind of results we can see...

**One4yu2c** · May 29th, 2008

Send me some MX2 and I'll do it. I've since applied Tuniq's TX-2 to the GPU, my current paste of choice.

May 29th, 2008	#1
Capper I'm Evil Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,675 Blog Entries: 6	Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review Like many gamers, we anticipated a heated videocard war would take place this past year between Nvidia and AMD. But instead of a knock-down, drag out fight between two heavyweight contenders, we instead witnessed Nvidia dancing around the ring with its 8800 series GPUs while the company formerly known as ATI nary made an attempt at the performance crown. In recent months AMD has finally responded with its HD 3870, and while it still doesn't manage to regain the lead, it did prompt Nvidia to release a new series in its lineup, the 9x00. Or did it? Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review Paul Lilly INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU

May 29th, 2008	#2
JazzyJake i love bawls Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: teh_Earth Posts: 828	Re: Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review Cool, nice review Paul

May 29th, 2008	#3
screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,279 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review greeat review Paul! Now if I can just get my hands on a 8800 of some sort I would be happy.. I don't mind last generation, especially when it is only 3-10fps lower then that 9800... Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

May 29th, 2008	#4
drew and not u 4GHz or Bust Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: where do you friggin live?? Posts: 1,759	Re: Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review Maybe in their press release they mistyped 8900GTX and just ran with it. P5K-E wifi/ E8400 @ 4.0 / Scythe Ninja Copper / 2GB Hyper-X DDR2-800 / 7800GT / Antec 1200 / Corsair HX-520 P5W DH Deluxe wifi/ E7200 @ 4.0 / 2GB Ballistix DDR2-800 / 7600GT (passive) / P180B / Seasonic SS-550HT / Zalman Reserator V2 Optiplex 755 / E2180 / 4GB DDR2 / 160GB HD / ATI HD 2400 Dual-ISP Network aim: drewandnotu \| Skype: drew-and-not-u

May 29th, 2008	#5
One4yu2c I don't know how to put this, but, I'm kind of a big deal. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Land of the Lounge Lizards Posts: 2,551 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review Nvidia kind of shot themselves in the foot by already releasing the G92 core in 8800 trim. The 9800GTX destroys the original G80 based 8800 cards, and by itself, the pricing isn't bad either. But compared with the second run 8800GT and second run 8800GTS, the 9800GTX loses a bit of bang/buck.

May 29th, 2008	#7
qazwsx With a pinch of insane! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England, 127.0.0.1 Posts: 623	Re: Asus EN9800GTX 512MB Videocard Review Nice review, yeah I also think nvidia have made a big mistake with the 8800GTS/9800GTX thing. It certainly blows away the G80 though, and that cards no slacker. It seems to run pretty cool, my 8800GTS is running at 55*c idle, although im guessing thats because theres probs a huge blob of paste, but it works so im not changing it...

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