NVIDIA Geforce 7900GS Review

While the 7600GT and 7900GT seemingly covered the mainstream market nicely, Nvidia have decided to expand their mainstream offerings with the 7900GS, providing even more choice than what was already there. The 7900GS gives you 7900GT like performance, which is more than enough to power almost every PC game available at a satisfying level, as well as room to overclock should you partake in such activities, all for 7600GT like cost - around the $US199 mark.

Given that vanilla 7900GT’s tend to sell for around US$260+ at best these days, I think the 7900GS now represents Nvidia’s best bang for buck in the mid to high range market. It’s not often you see an exceptional chip release in the mainstream market after a few solutions in the same generation already exist there, but the 7900GS could very well be an exception. Unless everyone is holding off until Vista and DX10 to buy a new videocard, I get the feeling the 7900GS will cap off what has been a very successful ‘bang for buck’ generation by Nvidia.

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