System Setup and Notes
To find out how the GeForce 7900 GS performs, we set it against GeForce 7900 GT on a modern Core 2 Duo platform. "Just 7900 GT?", I hear you cry. "Why not 7600 GT, too?", you also throw our way. Why yes, dear reader, just 7900 GT. Let us explain why. At the price NVIDIA have set for 7900 GS, you likely won't care about 7600 GT any more. Controversial opinion maybe, but performance will be appreciably higher with GS for not much more money. And of course it saves your author some testing time with 7600 GT on the new WHQL driver!We'll allude to 7600 GT where applicable, so be sure and follow the text as well as the graphs as you progress through the review. And of course we benchmark the eVGA at its shipping clocks of 500/690, to see what the extra clocks buy you with the eVGA Superclocked variant.
Hardware
| System | NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS Test System | |
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| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |
| Motherboard | Intel D975XBX Bad Axe rev. 304 | |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC8500 | |
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | |
| Graphics card(s) | e-VGA e-GeForce 7900 GS Superclocked (500/690 & 450/660) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT (450/660) |
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| Disk drive(s) | Maxtor 300GB SATA (6V300FO) | |
| Mainboard software | Intel Inf Update 8.0.0.1009 | |
| Graphics driver | NVIDIA ForceWare 91.47 WHQL | Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit |
