EVGA Geforce 7800GTX Black Pearl

Housing the fastest single-core Geforce currently available, EVGA’s 7800GTX Black Pearl is water-cooled, but don’t panic at the thought – EVGA has made the installation and maintenance of the Black Pearl as easy as possible.

The core is clocked at 600MHz and sits under the flat heatsink (our sample was plain aluminium, but retail versions will be finished in black).

The memory runs at 750MHz (that’s 1,500MHz effective), a huge increase over the standard 7800GTX’s 430MHz and 1,200MHz core and memory speeds.

All this is done as quietly as possible with the Eheim pump running whisper quiet and the large 120mm cooling fan on the radiator only producing 37.7dBA when running at the highest clock speeds.