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Alright, we're looking at the 9800 GTX+ from Palit,
and i'm beginning to like Palit more and more and more everyday.
You know they're a brand new company and it's really hard to break into
the video card industry when you've got big guys
like XFX and EVGA, but Palit's doing some unique stuff to get their name known, and...
stuff like this, this is pretty much- this is pretty much going to get you known
no matter what you do, big cool-looking non-reference coolers
with amazing heat-pipe design and lots of cooling.
That's going to get you heard out there in this market,
because this is an awesome cooler, and it looks really great,
you can play it, and it's fun, and...guess what?
Huge drop in case temperatures, and huge drop in GPU temperatures-
more than ten degrees celsius with this cooler,
and i'll tell you what, it's not even louder, which is the other very important part,
a lot of people think non-reference coolers are able to drop your temperatures
but it gets louder and annoying, and, you know, who needs that?
Who needs that headache in their life? The pffffff....all the time. It's stupid.
So, GTX+. If you don't know about the GTX+, it's a 9800 GTX but 'plus',
and what their 'plus' there is they pretty much refined
the manufacturing processes-- before they were building them
on a 65nm die, and now they're building them
on a 55nm die, and that pretty much gives you higher frequencies, because you can overclock it
faster because it runs cooler and it's more efficient,
so it's better for the environment and you get to play games for longer,
so everybody wins. It's fantastic. So let's talk about the frequencies real quick,
like I said, it does get faster, and that's good, so let's talk about it-
the 9800GTX was a very fast card to begin with,
it was very cool, this doesn't cost much more but look at the increase you get in frequencies,
you go from 1690 to 1836 on the shaders, and there's 128 of those shaders,
so that's a great increase, 675 is your regular core clock,
it's 725 on this one, which is a lot, actually, on this one in particular it's 738.
That's on a regular overclocked GTX- 9800 GTX, so that's a pretty big jump.
That's on a 256-bit interface, it's 512 megabytes of GDDR3
clocked at 1100 megahertz and if you're doing effective data rate
that's 2200 because it's double-pumped GDDR3, so very, very fast.
You get a lot of cool stuff- let me show you what comes in the box real quick....
start off with this little puppy, very cool. This is an HDMI to DVI adapter,
that'll let you transfer 1080p out to your television,
this is a VGA to DVI adapter, and this is pretty much going to let you use
your older monitor... this right here is a cool little device,
it's amazing and groundbreaking...not really, but it's still cool.
If you have an old power supply this is going to convert
two of your 4-pin molex connectors to-- you guessed right--
a 6-pin PCI Express connector, which we will need two of
in this motherboard, sorry, video card,
and this is a audio loop cable. And i'm spinning it like that
for no reason in particular, but they look cooler when you spin them.
But pretty much this hooks up to your video card and that goes to your front panel connectors
on your motherboard and that's for audio... headphones, stuff like that.
In the box. Can you believe you get this in the box? It's out of control.
Let's see, what else do you get? HDMI support, like I said, with the adapter,
HDCP- High Definition Content Protection, DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, OpenGL 2.1...
it's good stuff. PhysX and Cuda ready, that's good too...
folding at home ready, if you've got a big folding team
that uses the GPU processing that's available with Cuda...that's awesome.
So, 9800 GTX+. My gosh. I've reviewed this card so many times, but I like this one
because it's different, and it gives me something new to do.
Look at that cooler. It's really cool.
Since we're already here, let's talk about that power connector, there's two of them,
those are 6-pin PCI Express, you'e going to need both of them,
you're going to need a minimum of 450-watts on your power supply,
so make sure you've got enough juice... you're also going to need a good amount
of current so make sure you check your 12-volt rating for your rail,
make sure it's enough, these are two Dual Link DVIs,
2560x1600 native dual-monitor support if you want to use it,
that's a 7-pin S-video output, that will do 1080i to a television
if you so desire to do that, this is your PCI Express 2.0 interface,
pretty much you can use this with PCI Express 2.0, or with PCI Express x16, it doesn't really matter,
it will work either way, and up here, this is your SLI Bridge connector,
so if you want to run SLI, you very well can,
if it's your perogative to have better gaming performance
and make your computer look really cool with multiple video cards,
I mean it's really up to you, if you don't want to do it,
hey, you can be a dork and just not do it, but if you want to be cool
you can do it right there. Very cool card from Palit.
Can't say enough about it, full 16x anti-aliasing full screen,
oh, and if you want to know, it's about ten and a half inches long,
weighs about 74 pounds... pretty good, pretty light, I like it.
Double-thick too, make sure you have enough space for double-thick cards,
but that's it, Palit 9800 GTX+ video card with a non-reference cooler,
it's chocolate. If you have any questions on it e-mail me, i'll see you guys next time.
The Palit GeForce 9800 GTX+ video card is available from the retailers listed here
or, for more information, you can type in P458-9810
into any major search engine. For ComputerTV, i'm Albert.
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