The Card

The card is based on the reference design, with the same two slot cooling solution already found on the 7800GTX 512. It also has two DVI connectors and the S-Video connector just as is the case with the reference design for this card. At first glance there seems to be nothing different to the design supplied by NVIDIA. Not even the stickers on the heatsink or the 8 cm fan have been changed. The only difference is a small Point of View sticker on the back of the card.

The card itself comes at the clock speeds set by NVIDIA for the 7900GTX and while other companies like XFX or eVGA offer faster cards, they charge a premium for them as well.

And this is what the card looks like, installed into a clean system:



Beautiful isn't it?

Overclocking

Coolbits was used to overclock the card, as this is the one available on the installation CD, using the newest drivers at the time of writing (Forceware 84.21). The case was kept closed and all other components of the PC were run at default/stock speeds. The results of the Point of View GeForce 7900GTX were incredibly meager, as I could only reach a core clock of 658 MHz (+8 MHz from default) and a memory overclock to 826 MHz/1652 MHz (+26 MHz/52 MHz from default). An overclock of just over 1% on the core and 3.25% on the memory is quite disappointing, but remember, your mileage may vary from card to card.



Even with an open case, the card gave me rendering errors beyond these speeds. Due to the nature of Coolbits, the MHz reached on both, the core and the memory, varied 1 or 2 MHz for each overclocking run of the program. This showed that the card was well at its limit. Volt modding may be an interesting choice, considering it is a 0.09 micrometer part and with the memory apparently only getting 1.8V. But such a thing is not for the light hearted and will void your 3 year warranty.