ATI RADEON X1900 XTX

Advantages Best performance, water cooling, great bundle, limited edition
Disadvantages High price, noisy, high power consumption, takes a lot of space

...▀ ▀ ▀ A small introduction to the 8800 family. ▀ ▀ ▀ The 8800 family was the first video card family in the world based on Microsoft unified shader Direct3D 10 Shader Model 4.0 / OpenGL 2.0 architecture. Boosting 681 million transistors (by comparision ,Intel best dual core processor intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 has "only" 291 million transistors) and 128 Shader Processing units (96 for the 8800 GTS version) this card surpassed the latest king the ATI Radeon X1900XTX and is now the fastest card on the market. Great job NVIDIA ! ►►►Why did I tested this card the ASUS EN8800GTX AquaTank/HTDP !?◄◄◄ This is simple. I test this card because is the first water cooled card based on the great Nvidia chipset the 8800GTX that arrived in one of my friends... Read review

Advantages Great speed, efficient cooling system, impressive specifications
Disadvantages High power consumption, 8800 GTX is faster

...▀ ▀ ▀ A small introduction to the 2900XT(R600) family. ▀ ▀ ▀ The 2900XT family is the first video cards family created for PC market and designed by ATI based on Microsoft unified shader Direct3D 10 Shader Model 4.0 / OpenGL 2.0 architecture.It is ATI's second generation unified shader design, based on the "Xenos" GPU implemented in the Xbox 360 game console, which used the world's first such shader architecture.Boosting 700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process (by comparision ,Intel best dual core processor intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 has "only" 291 million transistors) and having 320 stream processing units this card surpassed the latest king the ATI Radeon X1900XTX but it still behind of NVIDIA top product the 8800 GTX. ►►►The card: ASUS EAH2900XT/G/HTVDI ◄... Read review