Product Description
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.PRODUCT FEATURES:NVIDIA unified architecture with GigaThread technology;Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 support;NVIDIA SLI ready;16x full-screen anti-aliasing;True 128-bit floating-point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting;NVIDIA quantum effects physics processing technology;Two dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560x1600 resolution displays;NVIDIA PureVideo technology;PCI Express support;OpenGL 2.0 support;NVIDIA nView multi-display technology.
Customer Reviews:
A grand videocard indeed, but it has it's price..........2007-12-26
Don't be disappointed with the numerous cons. I just got more descript with them.
Pros: The 8800 GTX can run pretty much anything (Few exceptions like Crysis but even then I pull off Very High at 1024x768 no AA) on the highest settings with little to no lag. The size and looks of it makes you feel like you just bought something from God.
Cons: This card runs HOT and that's no exaggeration. I had 70-80C temperatures with stock cooling. I picked up a Thermalright HR-03 Plus heatsink cooler found here http://www.amazon.com/Thermalright-HR-03-Plus-Video-heatsink/dp/B000NW916E/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1198705859&sr=8-9 and just fitted a 120mm fan on it (92mm is recommended for it, I got creative) and it worked beautifully. Another issue with this card is power. It consumes unnecessary amounts of power with it's two 6-pin molex connectors. I recommend a 600watt powersupply as a minimum. The next issue I have is size. This card is inevitably a two slot taker. You may or may not sacrifice a secondary slot such as a standard PCI slot that got a little too close to the PCI-E slot. And finally, money. The price of this is unbelievably high and we all know it. This card was released a while ago and still the price hasn't changed a large amount. The main complaint of the price is that it's predecessors like the 8800 GT and the new GTS 512MB model are performing just under it, if not equal to it. And at half the price of this monster, the 8800 GTX just might not be worth the buy.
Other thoughts: If you already own the card, be proud of it. It is still top dog of the bunch. If you are new to the 8 series, I will have to suggest the 8800 GT 512MB. This card just isn't worth the price especially with it's little counterparts GT and GTS pouting beside it.
EVGA 8800 GTX rocks.......2007-11-17
What more can be said about the 2nd fastest video card in the world? Only the Ultra is faster, and only by a few FPS. This card runs my games at reasonable speed with all features maxed out. If only nvidia would get its act together on the drivers. There are many "issues" still with the G80 series cards, mostly with multimedia playback, which I don't make much use of. For gaming, it is a great single-card solution available right now. Buyers considering purchase of a DX10 card should be aware that Microsoft has just come out with DX 10.1. Current generation DX10 cards will not support DX10.1 extensions and APIs. How big a deal this is remains to be seen.
Smoking hot card-in every sense of the word!.......2007-11-16
I've owned this card for awhile now and can't say enough good things about it. I've owned both ATI and Nvidia cards in the past so I'm not impartial to either side. I'll go with whichever company has the best product at the time.
That being said, at the time of my upgrading I couldn't find any other card that even held a candle to the GTX. Not only the card itself, but the company EVGA is great as well. Their lifetime warranty is awesome, their customer forums are very helpful, the step up program allowing you to upgrade to a better card down the road is an awesome option, and they release driver updates to improve the card in a very timely fashion.
The card itself runs very hot but the included cooler does its job well, even after a heavy gaming session my GPU temps rarely go beyond 65-70C. I decided to switch it out with the Zalamn VF 1000 with optional ramsinks just because I wanted to apply my own thermal paste, like controlling fan speed, it cools a tad better than the stock cooler, and I'm a fan of Zalman products. I'm not saying the included stock cooler is inadequate, I just prefer after market coolers.
I won't go into much detail about the detailed specs, its 681 million transistors, 128 processing streams and all that jazz as you can look that up on google. The card itself though is a beast. It can play pretty much all new games on max settings, even on high resolution monitors of 1920x1200 and beyond. And in the future you can always slap in another one of these in SLI and you would be hard pressed to stress that setup!
The card is HDCP compliant so as long as all your other hardware is also your good to go in terms of playing HD movie content. The card also sports dual DVI ports and an HDTV output so you will have no trouble in connecting your gear.
The card is also very attractive to any Vista users who plan on using it's DirectX10 feature. Although 10.1 is in the works I wouldn't expect to see any games actually using it anytime soon. 10.1 doesn't even bring anything new or great to the table so don't be put off that this card "only" supports 10 and not 10.1 The new 10.1 will also be backwards compatible, you just wont be able to use the new features, which are slim to none anyway. What I would consider though is the new 8800GT card.
As much as I love my GTX, you can find the newly released 8800GT for HALF the price of the GTX while only trailing in performance by about %10 or a few FPS in games! You can put TWO 8800GT's in your rig for a %50 gain over the GTX for the SAME price! If price is of no concern then of course go with pairing up the GTX or Ultras, but price wise the 8800GT absolutely cannot be beat. Be aware bargain shoppers. There are also rumors of both ATI and Nvidia releasing their next flagship models in the near future, but in the tech world this is ongoing, and if your waiting for the next big thing you will be no the fence forever!
So as of right now I am only running 1 of these cards but always have the option of dropping another one onto my 680i board if the need arises. I really do consider this card one of the most groundbreaking in terms of upgrading. All my previous GPU upgrades didn't bring a whole lot in terms of performance, but the 8800 series of cards will bring it all, AND a bag of Cheese Doodles baby! I'm very impressed with this card, and hopefully with the release of the cheap 8800GT it will lower the price of this model--then I can make my move and buy another one to pair them up! :D
Crysis Playable at medium-high.......2007-10-31
Runs Crysis Demo (and UT3 demo and all HL2 Source games) very nicely w/Intel E6850 and 4gb mushkin DDR2 800mhz, Intel DP35DPM mobo, Enermax Infiniti 720W, Vista home premium x64! Crysis @1350x768 on Dell 24" LCD. Latest Nvidia drivers.
Had some crashes ingame Crysis till I set Nvidia control panel to override games AA and AF settings (w/4x fsaa and 8x aniso filtering). Vista stable tho, except one crash that jinxed the Vista ui (has 3D) had to reboot that one time.
Note, card is quiet, ntune reports 59% fan speed and 67C idle. Intel OEM CPU fan is louder. Antec P182 case w/3 120mm fans. Pretty quiet overall.
DX10 Crysis is awesome! Definetly very cool. Looks Great. Gameplay is very fun. Way way better than Far Cry. This card runs it! Very playable fps. Fraps reports about about 30 fps average, mins around 16 on some scenes rarely. Still fun tho. Turnig game to all "medium" graphic settings gets me 50+ fps. But I want to seee the glory even if it chops a frame here or there. (crysis seems to deal with low fps pretty well, doesn't feel laggy or choppy till it dips below 20fps, although 50+ fps feels better than 30fps).
Pair it with a good PSU, mobo, fast Quad-core CPU and good memory! Would benefit from even better card or SLI to max settings. I had to detune slightly from max. Still looks great.
BTW Runs my Source games at 1920x1200 8xAA 16xAF no hiccups 80+ fps. Min fps about 50 some scenes.
All this for two grand (cost PC). I guess I should be happy. It IS 2007 after all.
But I am pretty satisfied with this card, it does the trick for now till the real deal comes cards out in Q1 2008. Then Crysis will really play nice.
works great.......2007-09-18
I have this card in 2 of my computers and have found it compatable with AMRA and other games that would lock up other NVIDA cards. Works great for me.
Product Description
Redefine your gaming reality with NVIDIA SLI-Ready GeForce 8800 graphics processing units (GPUs). The world's first DirectX 10 GPUs feature a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience. Power through games at record speeds. Charge through game maps with vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting effects while steering clear of mind-blowing physics effects such as explosions, fire, and smoke. Crank up 16x full-screen anti-aliasing without missing a beat - no jaggies, no worries. And when you're not pining the enemy, relax to your favorite movies on HD DVD or Blu-ray disk with NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology.
Product Description
The iLiad 2nd Edition is a portable eReader. Read and Write notes with the Wacom stylus. Annotating pdfs is easy as writing on paper. Store notes in the notes folder. No more paper! Print documents to the iLiad documents folder. Store Mobipocket Books, in the Books folder. Mobipocket.com is an Amazon.com company with more than 50,000 books for sale. Les Echos a Paris business newspaper subscription available for additional charge.
Customer Reviews:
Finally, a reader which allows you to carry many books!.......2007-11-14
I love to read and I have a bad back; while I will look forward to being able to use the Iliad for other uses, ultimately I wanted a reader that could carry many books without all the tiny cards needed by most of them when they exceed storage capacity after loading one book. After enormous frustration spent trying to learn to use one of the iPaqs (loaded with stuff I had on my palm and therefore without much space for downloads)which called itself an "entertainment" device but had mostly business applications, I finally broke down and decided to buy the Iliad.
Not only did it arrive in a timely manner, it arrived loaded with Mobipocket, so I was in seventh heaven as most good books do use that format.
I have an average of twelve to eighteen books on my Iliad at any one time; I can fit this in my purse (about the size of a trade paperback and slightly less weight. I think it is genius. While I look forward to the promised new uses, I bought this first and foremost to read books for business and pleasure. There is not, to my knowledge, another better product out there for this purpose.
I would have liked a back light as I sometimes travel when I have a room mate who would like to sleep when I want to read; but I think that if it is a choice between battery capacity and a back light, I'll use a book lite of some sort when that is needed.
Perhaps iRex will come out with a nice book light add on that fits all of the cases specifically made for the iLiad? iRex, that *would* be nice!
too much money for too little.......2007-10-20
I want to like the iRex, but I cant escape the feeling that you should get better software, better performance, and better documentation for a $700 product.
It is great that the iRex is an open source platform. but that shouldn't take resonsibility off the shoulders of iRex team to create useful core applications
Average customer rating:
- lots of potential, short on realization
- One Very Expensive Headache
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iRex iLiad eReader ER100
Manufacturer: iRex Technologies
ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:
- Read digital text from the iLiad. The iLiad is a portable reader. Stores thousands of books with added memory.
- Mobipocket, an Amazon Company, publishes 40,000 books for sale, 10,000 free ebooks that are compatible with the iLiad.
- The iLiad connects to a computer via USB. Transfer ebooks, pdfs, html, and others to the iLiad for reading.
- Write on the iLiad. The iLiad stores personal notes in a file format. Files transfered to the PC can be trasnslated to .txt with MyScript Notes optional software.
- 8.1" ePaper display is daylight readable and looks like paper
ASIN: B000RI08ES
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Product Description
The iLiad is a personal electronic device that stores digital content for readers on the go. It is lightweight, daylight readable, and convenient for the beach, the train, the living room or the office. Read and write on the iLiad. Stores thousands of books with optional memory.
Customer Reviews:
lots of potential, short on realization.......2007-12-21
This device has a lot of capabilities, but you have to write your own software to be able to take advantage of them. After reading reviews of the Kindle and the Sony reader, I bought an iliad, because I want to carry around and read professional documents, such as patents, in PDF format, without too much hassle. As it has been remarked in an earlier review, the manual and online/e-mail help is next to useless.
I do not plan to write my own software, but I made a gamble that sooner or later authorized software will become available.
For example, the iliad has the capability to allow you to buy or access content via WIFI, but this capability is not currently realized, except for direct download of upgrades from the company, irex.
For recreational use, I plan to buy the Kindle when more Amazon books become available in the Kindle format.
One Very Expensive Headache.......2007-08-16
At about $600, this item is massively expensive. But I figured, the features and quality will be worth what I've paid. The iLiad has been nothing but trouble since I got it. The software is not compatible with Vista. When you get on the Mobipocket FAQ site to try to manually move items, the other dissatisfied consumers will help you before one of the techs finally gets around to responding in English that is so badly broken as to be incomprehensible. I finally just gave up and loaded the thing onto an XP and downloaded some books. I went to expand the memory and got a Compact Flash card. There is literally NO reference in the User's Manual as to how you should go about installing, transferring or accessing your books on the card. The entry literally just tells you "CF Card Slot. This is a slot for a CF card." Thanks, that was helpful. I would implore all of you: buy the Sony product for 1/3 the price and when you go to their affiliated ebook site, you'll pay about 1/3 of what you will pay for the same titles on Mobipocket. (Seriously, most Mobipocket books cost about what a hardcopy of the book will run you at a bookstore.) Immensely dissatisfied.
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