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Asus ENGTX280: powerful, no-compromises video board.(REVIEWS: COMPONENTS)(Product/service evaluation)

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| September 01, 2008 | Atkin, Denny | COPYRIGHT 2008 SX2 Media Labs LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

EDITORS' CHOICE [check] ASUS' NEW VIDEO CARD based on nVidia's GTX 280 chipset, the ENGTX280, is all about the speed. A single card nearly doubled the performance of the 9800 GTX in many of our tests, and even beat a pair of dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 cards running in Quad SLI mode on others.

This card finally makes DirectX 10 (DX10) games playable at full resolution and detail on 30-inch monitors. With a pair of GTX 280s in SLI mode, even those demanding DX10 games manage silky-smooth frame rates; you can install a third card in a 3-Way SLI system for an even greater performance boost. (As with earlier cards, nVidia's drivers disable multiple monitor support when running in SLI mode; you'll have to disable the second card to use more than one display.)

Such performance comes at a price--the ENGTX280 sells for $499. The board features a pair of High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)-enabled, dual-link DVI ports; a digital audio input for use with an HDMI adapter (not included); and a component-video/SVideo output.

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