XFX GeForce 7800 GS AGP Review

Today, NVIDIA is releasing the GeForce 7800 GS AGP GPU. The reason for this launch is that end-users are not moving to the new PCI Express platform as fast as the company thought they would. So, with that happening, NVIDIA is bringing those users who do not have the funds or are not ready yet to take the plunge to get a new motherboard, CPU and GPU a GPU that will prolong the life of their systems.

This is also a hard launch of the NVIDIA GPU; Best Buy is supposed to have them this weekend and e-tailers on Monday February 6th. The card we are looking at today, though, is from XFX, and they informed me they will be in stock at e-tailers TODAY! Of course I am writing this a few days before the announcement, so we hope we will see that kind of delivery from XFX.

The card from XFX has an MSRP of $349.00, but I am guessing we will see them for less online. Also XFX has upped the cards GPU core speed and memory speed. They have taken the core from NVIDIA's reference of 375MHz to 440MHz and raised the memory from NVIDIA's 600MHz (1200 effective) to 650MHz (1300 effective). All that with what has to be the best warranty on the market -- Double Lifetime. The Double Lifetime warranty is if you register the card online you will get a lifetime warranty. If you then later sell the card and that user registers the card, he gets a lifetime warranty. The card can only be registered twice, but in all reality, this gives the card a true lifetime warranty since cards do not get sold that many times.