“Some time last year, Nvidia began loosening the reins a bit, allowing board makers more leeway with core and memory clock frequency settings. Now, most manufacturers have a two-tier strategy at the high end, with a conservative reference board design shipping at one price, and a board pushed about as hard as it can go, costing more.The pricing can be substantially more. The eVGA GeForce 7900 GTX Superclocked we look at today costs $80 more (MSRP) than the company’s reference board design ($499 versus $579). That’s a 16% price difference for a 6% core frequency and a 10% memory clock difference. In the real world, pricing differences may be greater due to product shortages. Since the companies have to sort the GPUs to pick the cream of the crop to run at these higher clock rates, availability can become an issue.”
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- MSI NX7600GT-T2D256E @ Hardware Zone
- Dell XPS M1710 – GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512 Mobile Gaming, Part 1 @ AnandTech
- MSI High-End Video Card Comparison @ [H]ard|OCP
- ASUS Extreme N7800GT TOP Silent @ Legion Hardware
- Gainward to refresh their 7800 GS AGP to 7900 GT specs @ PureOverclock
- XFX GeForce 7300 GS video @ Elite Bastards
- Nvidia has set things right! @ NGOHQ
- Looking Past the Present @ Tech Hounds
- Zalman VF900-Cu @ Modders-Inc.com
- Scale this @ HEXUS
- Zalman VF900-Cu @ Overclockers Online
- Matrox TripleHead2Go @ SimHQ
- Seeing Triple with the TripleHead2Go @ Extremetech
- Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
- Speed up a Macbook pro graphics cards @ MAKE:Blog
- PowerColor Radeon X1800 GTO @ Guru of 3D
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