Xbitlabs reviews ASUS EAX1800XT TOP/2DHTV video card
ASUS?s graphics cards with the word TOP in their name are overclocked versions of ordinary cards, often featuring original and innovative technical solutions. We already reviewed the EN7800GTX TOP/2DHTV model and found it to be very fast and almost silent at work. Today we are going to have a look at yet another product from that series, this time based on the ATI Radeon X1800 GPU.
The Radeon X1800 graphics card family is not anymore in the forefront of ATI Technologies? product range as it has been superseded with the more advanced Radeon X1900 series. Its senior model, Radeon X1800 XT, didn?t come out of the fight with the GeForce 7800 GTX as an absolute champion, although indeed was faster across a number of applications. The later released GeForce 7800 GTX 512 won the battle for Nvidia because the non-overclocked Radeon X1800 XT, even though with a huge core frequency of 625MHz, couldn?t do anything against that card, especially as the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 was equipped with very fast graphics memory clocked at an unprecedented 1700MHz. Still there was an attempt to create a Radeon X1800-based graphics card capable of competing with the GeForce 7800 GTX 512: ASUSTeK Computer came up with a unique version of Radeon X1800 XT that we are going to discuss in this review...
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