Point of View Upgrades the GeForce 9800 GTX+

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Point of View is launching the upgraded version of the GeForce 9800GTX+, lowering its temperatures and boosting overclocking possibilities. The 55nm built GeForce 9800GTX+ is one of the better performing graphics cards on the market. To get even more performance out of the graphics card while pushing down the operating temperatures, the company has decided to team up with one of the biggest names in the cooling business, Arctic Cooling. Arctic Cooling is a well-known brand in the market for its innovative coolers. They pride themselves with high performance and silent operation. And as we all know: cooler operation + 55nm GPU equals better overclocking possibilities.

The ingenious cooling method makes use of copper heatpipes, transporting the heat to the heatsink covering the full length of the card. After that, the two silent fans will take care of it. Depending on your personal case structure, you can expect a temperature drop up to 10 to 20 percent whilst making less noise.

The card itself has 512 MB DDR3 memory running on 2200 MHz. The GPU core has a speed of 738 MHz and its shader processors are running on an impressive speed of 1836 MHz.

To make this card a really strong all-rounder; Point of View has equipped this card with a dual-link DVI port, a HDMI port and a VGA port. Furthermore, an internal SP/DIF connection to support the HDMI output with high-def audio.

Besides the native support for DirectX 10 and Shader model 4.0, the 9800 GTX+ graphics card also supports three new technologies: NVIDIA PhysX, NVIDIA CUDA and NVIDIA Hybrid Power.

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