Hmmm...7800GT

warriorpoet · Post by **warriorpoet** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:36 pm

Check out these performance and power consumption numbers HERE
I think I've found my next vidcard (now to find $400...)

TheOnlyOne · Post by **TheOnlyOne** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:44 pm

Luckly it's on sale at Dell:

Dell Home has the BFG GeForce 7800GT OC 256MB GDDR3 PCIe Graphics Card + camera bagfor $489 + $12 bag - auto 20% off - $60 coupon M2VMLSN9QBGT3T (expires 8/12 6AM Central) = $341 + $4 shipping.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/t125907.html?&page=1&pp=15

cotdt · Post by **cotdt** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:57 pm

You can passively cool these things I'm 99% sure. They eat up 50W less power than nvidia 6800Ultra and Radeon 850XT.

tempeteduson · Post by **tempeteduson** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:50 pm

cotdt wrote:You can passively cool these things I'm 99% sure. They eat up 50W less power than nvidia 6800Ultra and Radeon 850XT.

Maybe Gigabyte will take up the challenge? Still, I want an even lower-heat card, something like a 7600, that can run stock passively cooled without too much heat. But I'm sure NVIDIA's 6600 series parts take care of the midrange market nicely, and we won't see any mainstream 7 series cards soon.

Who knows for sure?

Tzupy · Post by **Tzupy** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:13 pm

Xbitlabs reports just 24W less than for the 7800 GTX. That's within my expectations, it should make the 7800 GT easy to cool with a VF-700.
I only wish Zalman eventually uses a PWM fan on the VF-700...

rei · Post by **rei** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:18 pm

it's appearing in canada for $550-560.

i'll get one when they are $499

PositiveSpin · Post by **PositiveSpin** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:34 pm

Just collected one of the Leadtek/Winfast 7800 GTs. It's very loud at boot, but once the drivers load, the fan speed is reduced dramatically. Runs fairly quietly (and at ~40 degrees C) in a P180 (rear fan on low, watercooled CPU).

This is a temporary card - will be replacing it with two passively-cooled 6600GTs so I can support 4 LCD panels.

JonV · Post by **JonV** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:19 pm

cotdt wrote:You can passively cool these things I'm 99% sure. They eat up 50W less power than nvidia 6800Ultra and Radeon 850XT.

I can confirm this - I'm running a passively cooled 7800GT right now. Read my other post about mounting the Zalman ZM80D-HP on it.

Tzupy · Post by **Tzupy** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:31 am

The AC Silencer nVidia 5 Rev.3 will support the 7800 GT(X). Available from Oct 15, according to the AC web site. Until then one can get it on the GTTOP from Asus, for a bucket of money...