Galaxy sent out the Zalman edition of the 7900 GS which I have to admit is pretty darn impressive, and I do mean that physically. The card comes on a blue reference looking PCB yet with some distinct differences. Obviously the high clocks rock, you get to play around with a pre-overclocked yet 100% stable card, we did not experince one lockup whatsoever and neither were the temperatures drastic at all.

At defaults 7900 GS card is clocked at 450 MHz. The Galaxy is clocked at a 550 MHz frequency! The default memory on a GS is clocked at 1320 MHz, this Galaxy GeForce 7900 GS is clocked at 1500 MHz. That's 10 maybe a 20% performance advantage over normal GeForce 7900 GS. Obviously overclocking usually results in bigger fans and thus more noise. This is not the case with this card as we'll notice that it is properly equipped with a Zalman cooler. Also notice the smaller details; even the memory has little ramsinks (which have no use with BGA memory these days), but they do look cool.

On default you'll get a a good percentage more performance straight out of the box. The price tag will be not be higher though, as Galaxy did save money on the software bundle. Basically you'll receive drivers and basic necessities. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that.

• Driver CD with a set of tools
• S-Video Cable
• DVI to VGA Adaptor
• 6-pin PSU power connector
• Manual

There's nothing much to be said here other then you'll receive the basics to get started. Where others go for the golden software bundle, Galaxy goes for the more expensive cooler and high performance. There's nothing wrong with that, no Sir.

 

	NVIDIA GeForce 6 & 7 Product Lineup Specifications Product Name # pixel processors # vertex processors Bus width Memory Type/Amount GPU Speed RAM Speed GeForce 7900 GX2 24(x2) 8x2 256-bit GDDR3/512MB (x2) 500MHz 1200 MHz GeForce 7900 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 650MHz 1600 MHz GeForce 7900 GT 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 450MHz 1320 MHz Galaxy 7900 GS 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 550MHz 1500 MHz GeForce 7900 GS 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 450MHz 1320 MHz XFX 7900 GS EXTR 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 480MHz 1400MHz Sparkle 7900 GS 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 450MHz 1320 MHz GeForce 7800 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 560MHz 1600 MHz GeForce 7800 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 430MHz 1200MHz GeForce 7800 GT 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 400MHz 1000MHz GeForce 7800 GS 16 6 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 375MHz 1200MHz GeForce 7600 GT 12 5 128-bit GDDR3/256MB 560MHz 1400MHz GeForce 7600 GS 12 5 128-bit GDDR2/256MB 500MHz 1400MHz GeForce 7600 GS 12 5 128-bit GDDR2/256MB 400MHz 800MHz GeForce 6800 Ultra 16 6 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 400MHz 1100MHz GeForce 6800 GT 16 6 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 350MHz 1000MHz GeForce 6800 GS PCX 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 425MHz 1000MHz GeForce 6800 GS AGP 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 350MHz 1000MHz GeForce 6800 12 5 256-bit GDDR/128MB 325MHz 700MHz GeForce 6800 LE 8 4 256-bit GDDR/128MB 320MHz 700MHz GeForce 6600 GT 8 3 128-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 500MHz 1000MHz GeForce 6600 8 3 128-bit GDDR/128MB 300MHz 275(550) GeForce 6200 4 3 64/128-bit GDDR/128MB/256MB 300MHz 275(550)