Zotac GeForce 9800 GT Amp! Edition Review

NVIDIA’s new GeForce 9800 GT Series is not really new. The performance, specification and GPU are identical to that of the GeForce 8800 GT. Only a few minor features like Purevideo HD and Hybrid Power are present. Zotac showed a bit of creativity and added a bright orange PCB and higher clocks out of the box:

We have to admit that the GeForce 9800 GT does fit in the NVIDIA product stack at this point, GeForce 9 has not been about innovation anyway so far. Nevertheless the card comes at an attractive price and offers performance to play all of today’s games just fine.

Zotac added a custom-colored PCB and higher clocks to their GeForce 9800 GT Amp! Edition to make this product at least a bit more interesting. The higher clocks and high overclocking potential make this product certainly more useful, but you have to pay a price premium for it. Unless you need the GeForce 9 Series features (you probably don’t), stick with the GeForce 8800 GT and save a few dollars, unless the price difference is only $5 or $10 to get a GF9 card.

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