ASUS decided to use a rather plain looking PCB on their 7900GT. The card is about a inch longer than the PCI Express slot, allowing it to fit into virtually any case, including a Small Form Factor (SFF) Shuttle XPC or cramped case. The 7900GT uses a single-slot cooling solution, unlike its bigger brother the 7900GTX which requires two-slot cooling to run.

A 16-fin fan covers the graphics chip, surrounded by a heat sink that covers almost 50% of the PCB. ASUS is bundling King Kong with virtually every video card they sell today, and they slapped a picture of King Kong on the heat sink. There are 8 32MB 2ns memory chips on the front of the card, meaning that ASUS outfitted the EN7900GT with 256MB of DDR-3 memory.

Virtually every video card released today is on the PCI Express bus, which replaced the AGP standard in 2004. Early NVIDIA cards required a bridge chip, the High Speed Interconnect (H.S.I.) chip to run on a PCI Express system. The 7900GT also requires more than the 75W of power the PCI Express bus provides and there is a power connector on the card to provide the extra power.

Dual-Link DVI is becoming more and more important for the high-end gamer. As monitors like the Dell 3007 come into the market, high resolution gaming is a reality. Two 30" Dell monitors running 2560x1600 can be driven by a card like the 7900GT. You can also run dual monitors with two CRTs, or a LCD+CRT with included DVI-I to D-sub adapters. ASUS includes a TV-Out port to run PC games on your HDTV or regular TV as well.