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EVGA announces the 9800 GX2 Black Pearl

by on01 June 2008

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With Hydro Copper 18 water block

Almost a month after the initial release of the Hydro Copper 18, the 9800 GX2 water block, EVGA has announced the availability of its Black Pearl 9800 GX2 that will be cooled by this water block.

For some reason, EVGA has decided to ditch the Black Pearl label, so this card will be known as EVGA 9800GX2 Hydro Copper 18 1024MB. EVGA has also decided to play safe with this card, as it is clocked at 600MHz for the core, so that means no factory overclock. The card has 1GB of DDR3 memory that works at 1,000MHz (2,000MHz effective), and it comes with 256 stream processors with Shaders clocked at 1512MHz.

EVGA knows that the consumers that decide to buy this card will have no problem in overclocking the GPU, and we are pretty sure that it can easily achieve 700MHz. Other features include support for DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, PCI-Express 2.0, Nvidia's Quad-SLI and it has dual DVI and HDMI connectors.

The water block is sandwiched between the two PCBs and the card looks a bit naked without the plastic cover, but this is the best and the fastest card out on the market, at least until the GT200 makes its debut. The card is currently in stock over at EVGA's shop and the price is set at US$699.99.

You can find it here.

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Also read

EVGA water-cooled 9800GX2 available

EVGA's 9800 GX2 Black Pearl listed


Last modified on 02 June 2008
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