PC Stats has posted a review on the Asus EN7800GT TOP Silent 2DHTV/256M videocard. Behind the mass of metal is an nVidia GeForce 7800GT GPU and 256MB of 1.6ns GDDR3 memory - the Asus EN7800GT TOP Silent/2DHTV/256M is guaranteed to be fast with a package like that. The nVidia Geforce 7800GT graphics engine runs at 420MHz, and the GDDR3 memory follow suit with a clock speed of 1.24GHz (620MHz DDR3). If you want a video card with plenty of horsepower for today's games without all the noise of a conventionally cooled card, this might be what you need.

Of course passive cooling is not the only unique feature of the Asus EN7800GT TOP Silent/2DHTV/256M, it's also one of the fastest GeForce 7800GT videocards on the market out of the box. The clever Asus engineers were able to squeeze out a bit more performance out of the graphics core by teaming it up with some smoking 1.6ns GDDR3 memory.... and overclocking both slightly.

Asus is well known for its excellent software bundles and the one that comes with the EN7800GT TOP Silent/2DHTV/256M is as good as it gets. The videocard comes with seven full version games and its highlight is Peter Jackson's King Kong.  Multimedia users will appreciate the video software that comes with the package too, and the cards' VIVO capabilities and component output support.

The ASUS SilentCool heatpipe cooler works wonders and keepings the Geforce 7800GT graphics core within acceptable temperature limits. During testing with minimal airflow, core temperatures never exceeded 70 degrees Celsius. Pretty amazing when you consider the reference cooler performs about the same and it is using a 50mm fan!

The only real issue with the Asus EN7800GT TOP Silent/2DHTV/256M we have, and the same could be said for most current generation videocards, is the lack of HDCP support. With Microsoft Vista operating system and high definition content right around the corner, lacking HDCP means people who watch videos on their computer or output to a high definition television (HDTV) might be out of luck. It's difficult to say how severe this issue will be without having the OS and HD DVD/Blu-Ray movies available... still.