Hello People!
As we come close to the end of very eventful year, I bring you the eVGA GTX 280 SSC edition graphics card. (Super Super Clocked)
After almost 2 years of supreme dominance in GPU arena, NVIDIA is made to really sweat this year by ATI. The main reason for this is the different ways in which both these companies decided to approach the market. ATI has gone for value for money to go with good performance, and NVIDIA has approached it with the brute force.
And the card we are reviewing today is one of the fastest factory overclocked GTX 280 the money can buy at the moment sporting 648Mhz core clock, 1161Mhz Memory clock and 1404Mhz Shader clock speeds.
And this review comes our just when Nvidia slashed the prices of this card lightning up the market even more.
Let’s move onto the GPU first.
[BREAK=The GT200]
The GT200
This is the biggest chip Nvidia has ever made in its history. It measures whopping 24x24mm making it a die size of 476mm square. This is certainly the biggest chip of modern era, and largest chip made by TSMC fab. Its really monster chip with transistor count of 1.4billion. This is twice as much as the G92. The chip is based on 65nm fabrication only and that’s one of the reasons why this chip is so big in size.
Here is a picture of the GT200 architecture. I will not go into in depth detail here but just a brief idea.
You have Pixel shader, setup/raster unit, vertex shader and geometry shader unit. The next in line is the shader array. This is where the brute force is generated. The unified shader array consists of 10 shader blocks. Each block contains 24 shader units / cores.
Here is the close up of the individual shader block.
On GTX 280 all 10 shader blocks are enabled, while on GTX 260 you get 8 of them. Next are the L2 cache blocks and then the memory.
It’s major specification bump from the G92. It does not add any features from the G92, but it adds more of what you used to get in G92. Everything is basically multiplied and tweaked.
NVIDIA is still sticking to its stand of not adopting DX10.1 here as well. The GTX 260 and 280 are both still DX10.0 cards.
Let’s move onto the package and bundle
[BREAK=The Package & Bundle]
The Package & Bundle
Box Front
eVGA shipped this card in a compact box. Its no nonsense packaging advertising only main features and eVGA’s unique 90 day step up program
Box Back
The back of the box has small window revealing the card model and serial number sticker.
Packaging
Packaging 2
The card is neatly packed inside with molded foam packaging protecting the card.
Bundle
eVGA bundled the driver CD, manual, Molex to 6 pin PCI express power converter and also two 6 pin PCI express to single 8 pin PCI express power converter. So you need a power supply with atleast two 6 pin power supply connectors for this card or you have to source another molex to PCI express 8 pin converter. Also included are two DVI to vga converters.
Let’s take a look at the card itself.
[BREAK=The Card]
The Card
Card Front
On the first look you can tell that its completely reference design GTX 280 with the reference design 2 slot cooler with the eVGA sticker on the front.
Card Back
The back of the card is completely covered by the protective cover. So PCB is completely covered with just few air vents. Back also has the eVGA serial no sticker.
Top View
SLI Connector
You can see the 3 way SLI connector and protective cap here. This is to prevent dust accumulation.
[BREAK=The Card Continued…]
The Card Continued…
Power connector
The card needs two PCI express power connectors, 1x6pin and 1x8pin. You must connect both of them to the card. If you don’t connect these connectors properly, card will blink red led and loud warning which you will definitely hear.
Next to the PCI express power connector is the SPDIF in connector. This card can pass the audio to your television or receiver through DVI to HDMI converter just like ATI cards. But unlike ATI cards, you need to feed 2 pin SPDIF output of your motherboard or sound card to this card.
I/O plate
The back I/O plate as two DVI, HDTV/SVideo out and air vent. There is LED indicator as well. If everything is ok and both the power connectors are connected properly, it glows green. If any of the power connectors is not attached properly, it turns red.
That’s it for the card. Lets quickly go through the card specifications.
[BREAK=Specifications]
Specifications
GPU: NVIDIA GT200
RAM: 1GB GDDR3
Shaders: 240 unified
ROPs: 32
Clock Speed: 648Mhz
RAM Speed: 1161Mhz
Shader Clock: 1404Mhz
Memory Bus: 512Bit
DirectX Support: 10.0
Pixel Fillrate: 20.7GPixel/S
Texture Fillrate: 51.8GTixel/S
Transistors: 1,408M
Die Size: 24x24mm (576 mm2)
Additional Features: HDCP Ready, PCI Express 2.0, Tri SLI ready, CUDA and PhysX
As you can see, the card is factory overclocked to 648Mhz on core, 1161 Mhz Memory and 1404Mhz Shader clock. The stock GTX 280 clocks are 600,1100 and 1296Mhz respectively.
[BREAK=Test System and Important notes]
Test System
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 4320Mhz
Motherboard: Asus Maximus II Formula
PSU: Tagan BZ1300
RAM: 4GB Corsair Dominator @ 1128Mhz 5-5-5-18
Graphics Card: eVGA GTX 280 SSC, Reference GTX 280 (Gigabyte GTX 280) , Reference HD4870 1GB.
HDD: Seagate 7200.11 SD35 500GB
Optical Drive: Samsung SH S223
Heatsink: Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer on CPU, Stock cooling for GPUs
Drivers: 188.84 for Nvidia cards and New ATI 8.12 drivers for HD4870.
The FSB was raised to 470Mhz making the CPU run at 4.32Ghz. At this speed, the CPU and entire system was quiet cool and stable on both the motherboard and it ensured the CPU bottleneck is taken out of picture.
Each benchmark was executed 3 times and average of the three results was taken to ensure consistency of the results.
Windows Vista Ultimate X64 was fully patched and updated and latest drivers for all components were used.
I have dropped Call of Duty 5 from the benchmarking suit. This game is highly CPU dependent. The graphics card was making very little difference in this game with all three graphics card hovering at around 80FPS.
Crysis was dropped in favor of the Crysis Warhead as well. Everything else remains the same.
Let’s now move onto the benchmarking.
[BREAK=World In Conflict]
World In Conflict
World in conflict is one of the best strategy games out there. The graphics and gameplay both are absolutely stunning, and it’s one of the games that is really CPU and GPU intensive.
We used game’s in build benchmark system. For this test, the graphics setting were set to very high in the game. This enables DX10 render path and also enables 4x AA.
1680x1050
1920x1080
All cards perform well in this game. The eVGA SSC enjoys a small lead over stock GTX 280 as one can expect.
[BREAK=Far Cry 2]
Far Cry 2
This is the new game here for the first time in our reviews. This game is based on brand new Dunia Engine by Ubisoft and does not use original crytek engine of Far Cry 1.
This game is somewhat of a mixed bag, entertaining at times but not meant for everyone as those who don’t like long drives in the game that are just that, driving for long time from location A to B and nothing more. Some people hate it, some love it. But we cant ignore it at the moment
The game is not really too heavy on high end GFX cards unless you really crank up the details to Ultra High settings. That is exactly what we did here as we are testing a high end card. We set everything to Ultra High and ran the benchmark tool built into the game.
1680x1050, 4xAA
1920x1080, 4xAA
The eVGA GTX280 SSC is again little faster than stock speed GTX 280.
[BREAK=Crysis Warhead]
Crysis Warhead.
Finally this game makes it to our bench suit. EA released this game with the tweaked engine and story which runs parallel to the original Crysis. The game still has all the good things that came with Crysis. The Nano Suit is still there and story is good as well.
So let’s have a look.
1680x1050
1920x1080
This game is obviously very hard on graphics cards. And when all settings are maxed out as I did here, even the mighty GTX280 struggles in this game. Even though eVGA SSC is ahead by just 2 FPS, it does make difference while playing this game.
[BREAK=S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky]
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky
This is the sequel of the Stalker SOC. This game didn’t receive many exceptionally good reviews. But it is really nice game and with DX10 enabled this game really looks great. Specially lighting effects are amazing.
I used FRAPS for benchmarking, and all details were maxed out.
1680x1080
1920x1080
This is another graphics card killer game. You can game at 1680x1050. But it does lag in fights even at this resolution with maxed out settings. You will be much better off with reduced eye candy. Specially reducing the grass details helps a lot. The SSC manages very narrow lead over the other two cards.
[BREAK=Race Driver GRID]
Race Driver Grid
One of the new racing game that came out from the Codemasters. Codemasters in past had a reputation of churning out outstanding racing simulation games. Grid is no exception to that. Beautiful game with some great cars and circuits.
This game is very hard to benchmark. There is no built in benchmark system. And races are fully dynamic. So you have to drive through circuit and measure fps using fraps. I tried my best to drive as carefully and uniformly. I drove very carefully for 1 lap of the circuit at the back of the grid with all cars in front of me. All in game settings were maxed out.
The game is not too heavy on GPU so lets start directly from 1680x1050 and 8xAA.
1680x1050, 8xAA
1920x1080, 8xAA
As you can see, the regular GTX280 cant outperform the reference HD4870 1GB in this game, but evga GTX280 SSC does manage to sneak ahead. But this game is perfectly playable on all cards.
[BREAK=3DMark 2006]
3DMark 2006
3DMark 2006 is quiet old and I dropped this from my benchmark suit in recent reviews. But I decided to bring it back as it does prove to be good CPU and GPU benchmark even today.
No surprises here. The eVGA GTX280 SSC is fastest here.
[BREAK=3DMark Vantage]
3DMark Vantage
This is the latest 3d benchmark from FutureMark. Its first DX10 benchmark. A set of synthetic CPU and GPU tests to evaluate system performance. Though its synthetic in nature, its good benchmark for relative comparison.
Again, both GTX 280s are way ahead of the HD 4870 1GB in this benchmark as expected.
That’s it for the benchmarks.
[BREAK=Temperature and Overclocking]
Temperature and Overclocking
The card does not really run hot, it runs very silent and cool even with stock cooler.
And overclocking this card relatively easy. It easily managed to overclock to 710Mhz core and 1200Mhz memory.
Only tool you need to overclock the card and manage its fan speed is Rivatuner. There is no need to overclock the card for day to day gaming as it’s a strong card even at stock speeds.
The real world Benefits of the overclocking were in the range of 4-8%.
[BREAK=Multimedia and Cinema Experience]
Multimedia & Cinema experience.
This has become a major factor today. The GTX 280 sports Nvidia’s Purevideo HD. Nothing has changed from G92 in this department.
NVIDIA added contrast adjustment and Dynamic contrast feature in forceware when G92 rolled out. And it really works well.
The dynamic contrast does make difference in reality and really give dark blacks and richer picture.
All regular X264 encoded HD files ran smoothly with EVR of Media Player Classic Homecinema using less than 5% of the CPU. This is why Vista makes a great platform for those who are looking for good multimedia functionality. The VC1 decoding is still broken on Nvidia cards.
Though HD4870 have better vibrance / contrast and natural looking colours, after enabling dynamic contrast and little fiddling with the NVIDIA Digital Vibrance, the GTX 280 was able to match the image quality of Radeon. No complains on this front.
[BREAK=Conclusion]
Conclusion
Just few days back we reviewed a reference GTX280 model, and not much has changed since then.
There are no doubts about how this overclocked version fairs in benchmarks and games. It does manages a small lead across the platform. The overclocked speeds are nothing spectacular. Most GTX 280s will do these speeds easily. And it overclocks to about same as any other GTX280.
This is where the extra things that company offers come into picture. eVGA offers 90 days step up program where within 90 days of purchase of this card, you will be able to upgrade to the newer model by paying the price difference only. This is something that has kept eVGA at the top of the market share in United states. The same step up program is offered here as well. It might take more time for the process to complete here, but its definitely added bonus. From the feedback we get from our members here on techenclave and from my personal experience with Tirupati who distributes eVGA in India, the after sales support has been excellent so far here.
In the international market, there has been an interesting development couple of days back. The GTX 280 prices have been dropped to sub $400 by almost all manufacturers. This makes this card an incredible bargain at the moment and the most VFM card in this segment. Nvidia is finally able to compete with ATI on the price front as well. I just hope this international drop in pricing reflects here in India as well. But knowing our market, it might take too long for this to happen and Nvidia’s new flagship card and die shrink of GTX 280 is just month or two away.
Thanks to the step up program, you can safely buy this card today, and use step up to upgrade to the new card at later date. And this itself makes it an attractive high end card to buy at the moment. If you just cant wait for new cards to come and still want high end card, this is the card to get.
My Score Card
Performance: 8.5/10
Features: 8/10
Value For Money: Will be updated later based on local pricing
Overall: 8/10
Thanks to eVGA and Tirupati Enterprises for making this card available for the review.
Please Digg this Review Here: Digg - eVGA GTX280 SSC Review
As we come close to the end of very eventful year, I bring you the eVGA GTX 280 SSC edition graphics card. (Super Super Clocked)
After almost 2 years of supreme dominance in GPU arena, NVIDIA is made to really sweat this year by ATI. The main reason for this is the different ways in which both these companies decided to approach the market. ATI has gone for value for money to go with good performance, and NVIDIA has approached it with the brute force.
And the card we are reviewing today is one of the fastest factory overclocked GTX 280 the money can buy at the moment sporting 648Mhz core clock, 1161Mhz Memory clock and 1404Mhz Shader clock speeds.
And this review comes our just when Nvidia slashed the prices of this card lightning up the market even more.
Let’s move onto the GPU first.
[BREAK=The GT200]
The GT200
This is the biggest chip Nvidia has ever made in its history. It measures whopping 24x24mm making it a die size of 476mm square. This is certainly the biggest chip of modern era, and largest chip made by TSMC fab. Its really monster chip with transistor count of 1.4billion. This is twice as much as the G92. The chip is based on 65nm fabrication only and that’s one of the reasons why this chip is so big in size.
Here is a picture of the GT200 architecture. I will not go into in depth detail here but just a brief idea.
You have Pixel shader, setup/raster unit, vertex shader and geometry shader unit. The next in line is the shader array. This is where the brute force is generated. The unified shader array consists of 10 shader blocks. Each block contains 24 shader units / cores.
Here is the close up of the individual shader block.
On GTX 280 all 10 shader blocks are enabled, while on GTX 260 you get 8 of them. Next are the L2 cache blocks and then the memory.
It’s major specification bump from the G92. It does not add any features from the G92, but it adds more of what you used to get in G92. Everything is basically multiplied and tweaked.
NVIDIA is still sticking to its stand of not adopting DX10.1 here as well. The GTX 260 and 280 are both still DX10.0 cards.
Let’s move onto the package and bundle
[BREAK=The Package & Bundle]
The Package & Bundle
Box Front
eVGA shipped this card in a compact box. Its no nonsense packaging advertising only main features and eVGA’s unique 90 day step up program
Box Back
The back of the box has small window revealing the card model and serial number sticker.
Packaging
Packaging 2
The card is neatly packed inside with molded foam packaging protecting the card.
Bundle
eVGA bundled the driver CD, manual, Molex to 6 pin PCI express power converter and also two 6 pin PCI express to single 8 pin PCI express power converter. So you need a power supply with atleast two 6 pin power supply connectors for this card or you have to source another molex to PCI express 8 pin converter. Also included are two DVI to vga converters.
Let’s take a look at the card itself.
[BREAK=The Card]
The Card
Card Front
On the first look you can tell that its completely reference design GTX 280 with the reference design 2 slot cooler with the eVGA sticker on the front.
Card Back
The back of the card is completely covered by the protective cover. So PCB is completely covered with just few air vents. Back also has the eVGA serial no sticker.
Top View
SLI Connector
You can see the 3 way SLI connector and protective cap here. This is to prevent dust accumulation.
[BREAK=The Card Continued…]
The Card Continued…
Power connector
The card needs two PCI express power connectors, 1x6pin and 1x8pin. You must connect both of them to the card. If you don’t connect these connectors properly, card will blink red led and loud warning which you will definitely hear.
Next to the PCI express power connector is the SPDIF in connector. This card can pass the audio to your television or receiver through DVI to HDMI converter just like ATI cards. But unlike ATI cards, you need to feed 2 pin SPDIF output of your motherboard or sound card to this card.
I/O plate
The back I/O plate as two DVI, HDTV/SVideo out and air vent. There is LED indicator as well. If everything is ok and both the power connectors are connected properly, it glows green. If any of the power connectors is not attached properly, it turns red.
That’s it for the card. Lets quickly go through the card specifications.
[BREAK=Specifications]
Specifications
GPU: NVIDIA GT200
RAM: 1GB GDDR3
Shaders: 240 unified
ROPs: 32
Clock Speed: 648Mhz
RAM Speed: 1161Mhz
Shader Clock: 1404Mhz
Memory Bus: 512Bit
DirectX Support: 10.0
Pixel Fillrate: 20.7GPixel/S
Texture Fillrate: 51.8GTixel/S
Transistors: 1,408M
Die Size: 24x24mm (576 mm2)
Additional Features: HDCP Ready, PCI Express 2.0, Tri SLI ready, CUDA and PhysX
As you can see, the card is factory overclocked to 648Mhz on core, 1161 Mhz Memory and 1404Mhz Shader clock. The stock GTX 280 clocks are 600,1100 and 1296Mhz respectively.
[BREAK=Test System and Important notes]
Test System
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 4320Mhz
Motherboard: Asus Maximus II Formula
PSU: Tagan BZ1300
RAM: 4GB Corsair Dominator @ 1128Mhz 5-5-5-18
Graphics Card: eVGA GTX 280 SSC, Reference GTX 280 (Gigabyte GTX 280) , Reference HD4870 1GB.
HDD: Seagate 7200.11 SD35 500GB
Optical Drive: Samsung SH S223
Heatsink: Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer on CPU, Stock cooling for GPUs
Drivers: 188.84 for Nvidia cards and New ATI 8.12 drivers for HD4870.
The FSB was raised to 470Mhz making the CPU run at 4.32Ghz. At this speed, the CPU and entire system was quiet cool and stable on both the motherboard and it ensured the CPU bottleneck is taken out of picture.
Each benchmark was executed 3 times and average of the three results was taken to ensure consistency of the results.
Windows Vista Ultimate X64 was fully patched and updated and latest drivers for all components were used.
I have dropped Call of Duty 5 from the benchmarking suit. This game is highly CPU dependent. The graphics card was making very little difference in this game with all three graphics card hovering at around 80FPS.
Crysis was dropped in favor of the Crysis Warhead as well. Everything else remains the same.
Let’s now move onto the benchmarking.
[BREAK=World In Conflict]
World In Conflict
World in conflict is one of the best strategy games out there. The graphics and gameplay both are absolutely stunning, and it’s one of the games that is really CPU and GPU intensive.
We used game’s in build benchmark system. For this test, the graphics setting were set to very high in the game. This enables DX10 render path and also enables 4x AA.
1680x1050
1920x1080
All cards perform well in this game. The eVGA SSC enjoys a small lead over stock GTX 280 as one can expect.
[BREAK=Far Cry 2]
Far Cry 2
This is the new game here for the first time in our reviews. This game is based on brand new Dunia Engine by Ubisoft and does not use original crytek engine of Far Cry 1.
This game is somewhat of a mixed bag, entertaining at times but not meant for everyone as those who don’t like long drives in the game that are just that, driving for long time from location A to B and nothing more. Some people hate it, some love it. But we cant ignore it at the moment
The game is not really too heavy on high end GFX cards unless you really crank up the details to Ultra High settings. That is exactly what we did here as we are testing a high end card. We set everything to Ultra High and ran the benchmark tool built into the game.
1680x1050, 4xAA
1920x1080, 4xAA
The eVGA GTX280 SSC is again little faster than stock speed GTX 280.
[BREAK=Crysis Warhead]
Crysis Warhead.
Finally this game makes it to our bench suit. EA released this game with the tweaked engine and story which runs parallel to the original Crysis. The game still has all the good things that came with Crysis. The Nano Suit is still there and story is good as well.
So let’s have a look.
1680x1050
1920x1080
This game is obviously very hard on graphics cards. And when all settings are maxed out as I did here, even the mighty GTX280 struggles in this game. Even though eVGA SSC is ahead by just 2 FPS, it does make difference while playing this game.
[BREAK=S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky]
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky
This is the sequel of the Stalker SOC. This game didn’t receive many exceptionally good reviews. But it is really nice game and with DX10 enabled this game really looks great. Specially lighting effects are amazing.
I used FRAPS for benchmarking, and all details were maxed out.
1680x1080
1920x1080
This is another graphics card killer game. You can game at 1680x1050. But it does lag in fights even at this resolution with maxed out settings. You will be much better off with reduced eye candy. Specially reducing the grass details helps a lot. The SSC manages very narrow lead over the other two cards.
[BREAK=Race Driver GRID]
Race Driver Grid
One of the new racing game that came out from the Codemasters. Codemasters in past had a reputation of churning out outstanding racing simulation games. Grid is no exception to that. Beautiful game with some great cars and circuits.
This game is very hard to benchmark. There is no built in benchmark system. And races are fully dynamic. So you have to drive through circuit and measure fps using fraps. I tried my best to drive as carefully and uniformly. I drove very carefully for 1 lap of the circuit at the back of the grid with all cars in front of me. All in game settings were maxed out.
The game is not too heavy on GPU so lets start directly from 1680x1050 and 8xAA.
1680x1050, 8xAA
1920x1080, 8xAA
As you can see, the regular GTX280 cant outperform the reference HD4870 1GB in this game, but evga GTX280 SSC does manage to sneak ahead. But this game is perfectly playable on all cards.
[BREAK=3DMark 2006]
3DMark 2006
3DMark 2006 is quiet old and I dropped this from my benchmark suit in recent reviews. But I decided to bring it back as it does prove to be good CPU and GPU benchmark even today.
No surprises here. The eVGA GTX280 SSC is fastest here.
[BREAK=3DMark Vantage]
3DMark Vantage
This is the latest 3d benchmark from FutureMark. Its first DX10 benchmark. A set of synthetic CPU and GPU tests to evaluate system performance. Though its synthetic in nature, its good benchmark for relative comparison.
Again, both GTX 280s are way ahead of the HD 4870 1GB in this benchmark as expected.
That’s it for the benchmarks.
[BREAK=Temperature and Overclocking]
Temperature and Overclocking
The card does not really run hot, it runs very silent and cool even with stock cooler.
And overclocking this card relatively easy. It easily managed to overclock to 710Mhz core and 1200Mhz memory.
Only tool you need to overclock the card and manage its fan speed is Rivatuner. There is no need to overclock the card for day to day gaming as it’s a strong card even at stock speeds.
The real world Benefits of the overclocking were in the range of 4-8%.
[BREAK=Multimedia and Cinema Experience]
Multimedia & Cinema experience.
This has become a major factor today. The GTX 280 sports Nvidia’s Purevideo HD. Nothing has changed from G92 in this department.
NVIDIA added contrast adjustment and Dynamic contrast feature in forceware when G92 rolled out. And it really works well.
The dynamic contrast does make difference in reality and really give dark blacks and richer picture.
All regular X264 encoded HD files ran smoothly with EVR of Media Player Classic Homecinema using less than 5% of the CPU. This is why Vista makes a great platform for those who are looking for good multimedia functionality. The VC1 decoding is still broken on Nvidia cards.
Though HD4870 have better vibrance / contrast and natural looking colours, after enabling dynamic contrast and little fiddling with the NVIDIA Digital Vibrance, the GTX 280 was able to match the image quality of Radeon. No complains on this front.
[BREAK=Conclusion]
Conclusion
Just few days back we reviewed a reference GTX280 model, and not much has changed since then.
There are no doubts about how this overclocked version fairs in benchmarks and games. It does manages a small lead across the platform. The overclocked speeds are nothing spectacular. Most GTX 280s will do these speeds easily. And it overclocks to about same as any other GTX280.
This is where the extra things that company offers come into picture. eVGA offers 90 days step up program where within 90 days of purchase of this card, you will be able to upgrade to the newer model by paying the price difference only. This is something that has kept eVGA at the top of the market share in United states. The same step up program is offered here as well. It might take more time for the process to complete here, but its definitely added bonus. From the feedback we get from our members here on techenclave and from my personal experience with Tirupati who distributes eVGA in India, the after sales support has been excellent so far here.
In the international market, there has been an interesting development couple of days back. The GTX 280 prices have been dropped to sub $400 by almost all manufacturers. This makes this card an incredible bargain at the moment and the most VFM card in this segment. Nvidia is finally able to compete with ATI on the price front as well. I just hope this international drop in pricing reflects here in India as well. But knowing our market, it might take too long for this to happen and Nvidia’s new flagship card and die shrink of GTX 280 is just month or two away.
Thanks to the step up program, you can safely buy this card today, and use step up to upgrade to the new card at later date. And this itself makes it an attractive high end card to buy at the moment. If you just cant wait for new cards to come and still want high end card, this is the card to get.
My Score Card
Performance: 8.5/10
Features: 8/10
Value For Money: Will be updated later based on local pricing
Overall: 8/10
Thanks to eVGA and Tirupati Enterprises for making this card available for the review.
Please Digg this Review Here: Digg - eVGA GTX280 SSC Review
