XFX 9800GTX Plus Black Edition Review :: XFX GeForce 9800GTX+ Black Edition Card

In many ways the GeForce 9800GTX+ Black Edition card is a slightly modified 9800GTX card as they look identical at first glance. The card uses the same cooler as the XXX from XFX but has a black heatsink instead of the blue color that card had. XFX's card has the wheel that's on their box cover as well as the GeForce 9800GTX+ logo.

Logo

Fan

Card

Card back

The 9800GTX+ BE has two 6-pin power connectors on the top of the card. This is the same configuration as other 9800GTX cards. The card is also a 2-slot card, meaning that a PCI Express and an open adjacent slot are required to install this card into a computer. The top of the card also has two SLI bridges that are required to run this card in Tri-SLI.

SLI Bridge

power connectors

NVIDIA Part number

PCI Express

The IO of video cards has changed little in the last few years. XFX decided to outfit the IO of this card with two Dual-Link DVI connections and a TV-Out connection. You can of course run two Digital LCD monitors with these adapters and attach two HDMI monitors with adapters to this card to run HDMI displays. Two analog monitors can also be run on this card if you use analog adapters. The rear of the card has the mounting bracket for the graphics chip, RoHS stickers, part number stickers and Patent stickers.

Reverse

Side Shot

IO