What Would You Like To See In A 7900GTO eVGA / MSI Review?

**Serra** · 10-10-2006, 02:32 PM

Just a quick question for everyone here. I'll be picking up an eVGA and an MSI 7900GTO either tonight or tomorrow from the post office, and assuming neither is DOA, I'll be OCing and comparing them through the week and posting some results later on this weekend (hopefully). My test bed will be my rig, and will involve:
- Air cooling with the stock coolers
- Water cooling with a Maze4 + BIP3 loop + ramsinks & a Vantec Tornado
- Stock and overclocking results
- A BIOS flash on both to GTX (if possible)

I'm just wondering if there's any particular benchmarks and/or things anyone would like to see noted or tried with this newish series of cards that don't yet have too many reviews out. I don't have a digital camera with me, but I will steal my sisters 3.0 mega-pixel camera (for what little good it will do), so it's pretty unlikely I'll get any good hi-res images, so if there's anything specific you want to know about a card, toss up the question here and I'll try to address it in my head-to-head review (ie. memory types or whatever).

Thanks.

**Timmay** · 10-10-2006, 03:16 PM

I have my eye on a MSI 7900GTO, so yes I would be interested if it is worth the extra money for a eVGA (In NZ).

Cheers.

**mr_knowitall15** · 10-14-2006, 10:47 AM

That would be cool. Just do the ol standards like 01, 03, 05, 06 and AM3. For comparison, I just got my rig all set up and running well (updating an old ass copy of windows SUCKS!!!), and for a quickie, i quite easily got the CPU to 2.9 (no effort whatsoever, will push harder tommorow when i dont work...) and did the detect optimal frequencies on the evga 7900GTO i got, i must say i was leary of doing so, becaue that never worked for crap on my old rig... ANYWAY, it AUTOed to 710 core and like 784 Mem (IIRC) I almost crapped myself over the huge jump in memory speeds. It almost maxed out the slider in coolbits... Again, ill push this harder too tommorow hopefully. (shootin for like 400 fsb, 3.6Ghz, 1000Mhz on the RAM 4:5 divider right?, and say 725/800 on the card.)

**trans am** · 10-18-2006, 02:07 PM

I think most of us want to know the differences in the memory chips.

**Zardokk** · 10-18-2006, 03:19 PM

Definately memory chip info, max OC info, temp info, flash-ability, and bench results.

**Roger_D25** · 10-26-2006, 07:50 AM

Thanks for asking us Serra, this is the first time I've checked out this section of the forum and so far I've really enjoyed it! I hope it's not too late to post suggestions about what we would like to see in a 7900GTO review? If not I would very much like to know how it compares to the regular 7900GT cards. My next door neighbor and good friend just bought a pair of 7900GTO's and they seem to be very powerful. I have a single 7900GT and would like to know how two GTO's in SLI would compare to two 7900GT's in SLI? Thanks, can't wait for the review!