AOpen Aeolus 7800 GTX-DVD256 Graphics Cards : Review

Quote: We’ve already looked at a pair of retail boards from XFX and now we’ve got another pair from AOpen. The XFX 7800 GTX cards were notable for their plush packaging, VIVO support and slightly higher CPU and memory clocks. With the cheaper price and more modest box I was expecting the AOpen cards to be essentially identical to the reference boards. Indeed the AOpen card certainly looks that way, and doesn’t feature VIVO. However, as it turned out, with our review sample AOpen has matched XFX with the core and memory hitting 450 and 1,250MHz respectively – up from 430/1200 on the reference nVidia boards. Clearly there’s some headroom in the design and while the lower clocked version of the GTX is due to arrive very soon it does further suggest that an ‘Ultra’ version of the chip won’t be too much of an effort for nVidia if it feels threatened by ATI’s next move.

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