EVGA nVidia GeForce 9800GT 1 GB 2DVI/HDCP PCI-Express Video Card 01G-P3-N981-TR

Purchased this card to replace existing EGVA 8500GT (1GB) on a 4GB E6580 CPU and couldn't be happier. First of all, I ordered the card on a Wednesday and it arrived two days later, using Amazon's free shipping. Amazing! The card is single slot but very large, luckily so is my case, but still had a tight fit attaching the two power cables. Well worth any effort, of course, once I turned on my machine and installed the latest drivers. Coupled with my new 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor, this card is just beautiful. Runs everything I throw at it with blinding speed, graphics options maxed out. Very, very pleased with both Amazon and the quality of the card. Highly recommended.

I purchased two of this video card for my home gaming computer, you know, for SLI. They are fast, but be prepared, because they really put the things hot inside the computer's case if you do not have enough ventilation. Also, the power requirements are high, so your PSU must match their needs. I had to put more fans and change my PSU in order to meet the requirements.
The service of Amazon? always first class.

I am not much of a video game player. Otherwise I probably would have bought an ATI-Radeon. But I do a lot of 3D CGI graphics animation, HD video editing and multichannel Soft-synth music composition. This board has full support for 3D with up-to-date OpenGL drivers. Its drivers are also stereo-scopic ready for those of you who want to attach a 3D monitor some day. I have also been writing a compiler for a parallel programming language that I have been developing and the future of raw performance seems to be going in the direction of GPGPU. This board is suitable for all of these purposes (with 112 GPU cores) and is about the most powerful video card you can get that only takes up one card slot. This board is suitable for CUDA programming as well as OpenCL, both of which are supported by NVidia's SDK. For those of you who do buy this board, don't forget that it sucks enough power that it needs its own direct power connection and will put out a shrill whine if you fail to...Read more