This GPU is the latest from NVIDIA. It’s based on NVIDIA’s newest and fastest 7900GTX chipset. It features the same 24-pixel pipeline architecture of the 7800GTX series, but with a lower transistor count, meaning significantly lower heat dissipation. The low transistor count also means NVIDIA could up the clock speed, which they haven’t missed out on. The Leadtek PX7900GTX features a 650 MHz coreand 512 MB of GDDR3 memory @ 1600 MHz. Add to that full Direct X SM 3.0 compliance and HDR support, and you have a monster of a card on your hands! And the card does look monstrous, thanks in part to the huge heat sink, which has cooling pipes dissipating heat away from that supercharged core. One serious accomplishment here is the temperatures, which were well in check—easily within limits for a card of this calibre. The memory is also actively cooled via the heat sink, which is integrated with a large-diameter slow fan. Noise levels are tolerable. Apart from the driver CD and free software, the card comes bundles with a full version of Serious Sam 2, a new game, which should give this card an easy workout. Also bundled are the composite cables, and the DVI to D-Sub adapter; the card comes with two DVI-I connectors, so if your monitor has only D-Sub, you will need to use this. Performance-wise, this board is no slouch! 3D Mark 2005 put up scores in excess of 11000—an all-time high among all the cards we’ve tested! We started up DOOM 3 and were greeted with a straight 100+ fps score. To make things interesting we cranked up the resolution while enabling full AF and AA, and even at these settings the card didn’t miss a beat—shattering all previous records. A true fire-breather, the Leadtek PX 7900GTX costs a whopping Rs 35,000. Premium products don’t come cheap, now, do they!