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EVGA announces EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX BlackPearl with Water Cooling

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Munich, Germany - January 19, 2007 - EVGA, a leading provider of performance computing hardware, today announced the release of their EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX "BlackPeral" (P/N: 768-P2-E838-AR) NVIDIA technology-based 3D processor card. The new EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX "BlackPeral", in addition to EVGA's water cooling, is spec'd at an amaz-ing 626 MHz core clock with 2.0 GHz memory clock. The new graphics card will be avail-able at online retailers at a suggested retail price of € 799.



These new card, in addition to strict in house testing, feature EVGA's exclusive BlackPearl water cooling which ensures top notch quality, performance, over-clocking potential and reli-ability for gamers. This same level of testing and quality allowed Vince Lucido to set the 3DMark 2006 world record at over 24,000 points with a pair of EVGA 8800GTX's and an EVGA 680i mainboard.

"This new EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX cards with BlackPearl water cooling crank up the performance and take gaming to revolutionary levels. EVGA's BlackPearl water cooling tech-nology aids in the increased performance and reliability of these higher performance EVGA 8800 GTX card." said Wolfram Tismer, Managing Director of EVGA in Europe.

The EVGA Difference:
Known for offering value and performance, as well as top notch customer service, EVGA is recognized through customer loyalty and the highest levels in customer satisfaction. In addition to the expanded product lines, consumers and channel partners will also benefit from increased sales and technical support programs, including a 10 year limited warranty.

About EVGA
Founded in 1999, EVGA has grown exponentially in the channel, serving the system builder, distribution and retail markets with products that offer the highest in quality and customer satisfaction, thereby making the computing experience transparent to the hardware in the box. EVGA only offers visual processing products based on NVIDIA chipsets and in year 2005 expanded its product line to include motherboards. For further information online about EVGA, visit http:// www.evga.com.

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hrm...how is 625mhz amazing? my x1800xt is stock 625 core. i must be missing something.
 

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looks very nice. anyway, thats a good high clock speed for an 8800gtx
 

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I think the amazing thing is the included "Water block" . Other than that, they are trying to beef it up to make it worth a look. I hate companies that do this.
 
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Whose waterblock are they using?
 

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hrm...how is 625mhz amazing? my x1800xt is stock 625 core. i must be missing something.
Because this is an 8800gtx and you have an x1800xt. Those P4extreme whatever chips clock up to 4ghz, does that mean the Core2's at 2.4 ghz are slower? :banghead:
 

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I wonder if the 625mhz they are talking about, refers to the shader speed or whatever it is called.
 

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Why does it still take up two slots?
 

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Why does it still take up two slots?

Because they need the space for the Water Cooling I believe, just incase anyone tries to clog up the area - correct me if i'm wrong though :toast:

But besides that, It looks like a bad ass card.. eVGA has to be one of the kings of design, their boards and their cards look amazing, you can only hope they live up to the expectations of the 8800 series.
 
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