XFX PVT98FYDF9 GeForce 9800GTX 512MB DDR3 675MHz Dual DVI PCI Express 2.0 SLI Ready Video Card

Amazon Customer Reviews

(5 out of 5)

Excellen card for the price

This is a very good card, I recommend it!
EXCELENTE TARJETA DE VIDEO, VALE LA PENA, YO LA RECOMIENDO AMPLIAMENTE

(5 out of 5)

Great Card

Great card. I want to look down upon the nay-sayers this card is worth every penny. It is not a revolution it's an evolution of the already good 8800GTS 512 G92 version. If it were a revolution you would be seeing these retailing for $600+ I get astounding frame rates in all of my games. I play Call of Duty 4 MW multiplayer on max everything and it is beautiful and smooth. Thank you amazon!

(4 out of 5)

Great card/performance with minor drawbacks

I threw this card into my home workstation to replace a FireGL card, since ATI's drivers have been wreaking havoc on my ability to get any 3D work done from home. This is in a dual 3.2Ghz Xeon(old style with HT) system with 2gigs of ram.

Pro: Very nice price point for the performance, runs Crysis smoothly(20-30 fps) at very high settings with no AA. Definitely a great upgrade if you don't already have a higher flavor of 8800 already.

Con: This card is very long and requires a lot of power. Lengthwise, in my mid-full size atx case it reaches almost to the hard drive bay(about 3-4 inches away) and directly under one of my CPU's. So I recommend you check the dimensions in your case to see if the card will fit.

The card itself demands 2 6 pin PCI-E power connectors. It comes with two convertors for two 4 pin to one 6 pin power, so you can get it to run without them. However, the XFX instructional insert specifically states that it does not reccomend using either of these convertors, which I found vexing since I saw the convertors in an open box picture and figured I didn't need to worry about my power supply(500Watt). My DVD drive doesn't really get proper power now, so no disc reading for me until I get a new PSU. I may simply need a higher wattage PSU as well, since the card is in a dual cpu(not dual core) system.

The cons are mainly to help anyone thinking of buying this card(or probably any 9800 gtx) have a system that can accommodate this line of GFX card.

Overall I'm very happy with this card and the performance it provides. It's a great sweet spot for price and performance.

(4 out of 5)

Excellent mid-end video card

I bought it to replace my xfx 8600gt 256MB Gddr3, and i can tell the difference is astonishing, with this card i can play almost anything with all detail maxed out and good framerates, the only thing that cannot be played with very high quality is Crysis, but for the rest of the games this card is the one of the best deals you can get.

My specs: Core 2 Quad 6600 @ 2.7Ghz, Xfx 680i Lt, 4Gb Corsair XMS DDR2 800, XfX 9800GTX 512MB GDDR3, 2 500GB WD HDD'S, Thermaltake purepower 600W PSU.

(5 out of 5)

Great for gaming, a bit HUGE physically, Linux supported

I'm currently playing Call of Duty 4 and Medieval: Total War 2 as well as some older games, and both look great on this thing. This card is powering a 30" LCD and some absurdly high resolution that I forget exactly (2560x1920 or something). Great performance. As a previous reviewer noted however, it is huge. It looks just like my Voodoo 5500 did when I bought that about 7 years ago, so it was like a blast to the past.

I would have given it 4 stars for the size, but the great Linux support really won me over. I eventually used the box it's in for Windows only simply because it's a gaming rig, but initially it was an Ubuntu box and Nvidia has done a fine job of producing quality drivers, adding them proudly to their site in an easy-to-find location, and making the instructions pretty easy to follow. Contrast this with other vendors like Creative, and I'd rank Nvidia as Linux-friendly, which is worth a star in my book.