3DFX really revolutionized the industry with the concept of SLI with the Voodoo 2. They proved that you can market and sell two video cards to improve gaming performance and a video card that had two chips on the same board. NVIDIA’s 7950 GX2 is a logical extension of SLI in putting two cards on a single board and does its job well.

Advantages of the card include higher performance than any other single video card on the market, improved AA modes and more. Once NVIDIA releases the driver for SLI of two of the 7950s, it will likely outperform anything on the market. The EVGA card I’m reviewing here is default clocked for both the core and memory. There will be overclocked cards from EVGA

Disadvantages of the 7950 GX2 include: Four slots for SLI mode, no SLI driver for two 7950s at the moment except from system builders like Dell, no MSAA+HDR in Oblivion, cost ($599) and the inevitable future of Windows Vista hardware (Shader Model 4.0). For now, if you’re looking for the absolute fastest performing single video card on the market, this is it, bar none.

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