Video cards are very easy to setup if you take proper precautions like grounding yourself out before touching the card and selecting the proper slot for the graphics card. In this case, I installed the two 7800GTs on an ABIT NI8-SLI motherboard I use for graphics card testing, set the SLI card to SLI mode, inserted the SLI Bridge, plugged in the video cards and turned on the computer. After installing a fresh copy of Windows XP Professional with SP2 and the motherboard drivers, I proceeded to install the 78.01 Forceware display drivers.

I was able to overclock the XFX 7800GTs in SLI mode to a clock speed of 505MHz/ 1.15GHz. This is a 55MHz core clock/100MHz memory clock increase over the standard XFX clocks of 450MHz/ 1.05GHz. Further, NVIDIA’s reference speeds for the 7800GT are 400/1GHz. The reference 7800GTX runs at 430MHz/1.2GHz. This means the XFX cards will likely outperform the competition from GIGABYTE and ASUS who use the reference clock speeds.

Bundle
7800GT card
Far Cry DVD
MotoGP2
X2 The Threat
S-Video Out cable
6-pin power cable
2 DVI-I connectors
2 RCA Output Cables
Manual
Multilanguage Installation Guide

XFX really went all-out with their bundle on the 7800GT. Hardware-wise the card comes with 2 DVI-I to D-Sub adapters, a S-Video Out cable, 2 RCA Output cables and the 6-pin power supply adapter for PCI Express video cards. The manual of the card clearly lays out the configuration options for the card. XFX includes two manuals, one for the card itself and one for purchasers that want to read the manual in various languages including French, German, Italian, Polish and others.

Software-wise, the bundle is currently without peer. At the moment, the games bundle consists of MotoGP2, X2 The Threat, and Far Cry DVD. Far Cry was one of the best games of 2004, MotoGP2 is a motorcycle racing game, X2 The Threat is a space simulation game. XFX went the extra mile with their bundle adding the latest Novalogic games demos: F-22 Lightning 3, Comanche 4, Armored Fist 3, and Delta Force Land Warrior.