The card itself comes with two DVI-outputs, but you get a DVI-to-VGA adapter for those displays that require an analog connection. The package also contains the basic hardware you expect from a 3D card these days.
The ongoing release of updated software drivers from Nvidia tends to improve performance and overall game compatibility as well. You won't see double the performance, due to the slowdown inherent to added connections, and some games take better advantage of SLI than others, but generally, you can expect a nice boost in speed with two cards. You can also purchase two cards and run them in Nvidia's SLI mode if you have a supporting motherboard. If you're less inclined to overclock your 3D card yourself, Asus also sells a factory overclocked EN8800GT TOP, with a 700MHz core and 1,000MHz memory, for a few dollars more. We were also glad to see Asus' handy GamerOSD, a software tool that lets you play around with overclocking and other settings in real time. Asus includes a copy of the well-reviewed strategy game Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, which includes a few DirectX 10 features, to let your new 3D card flex its next-gen muscles a bit. Potential supply-side shenanigans aside, Asus has taken Nvidia's chip and assembled a compelling package with its particular take on the 512MB GeForce 8800 GT. We have no way to confirm that that's what's happened, but we're going to err on the side of caution here and not heap too much praise on a product that doesn't appear to be as widely available as others. It's not uncommon for either graphics card vendor to seed cards and chips that are effectively "reviewer" models, designed to take away buzz from a competitor's launch. Of course, if the $350 card is the midrange model Nvidia's really serious about, now you're looking at a significant price differential between that and the $249 Radeon HD 3870. The 512MB iteration of the 8800 GTS, though, goes for $350 (and up), is even faster than the new 8800 GT reviewed here. Our suspicion is that Nvidia is limiting the supply of this card, in favor of the cheaper, 256MB 8800 GT, as well as the new 512MB G92 version of the 8800 GTS, (both of which came out earlier this month). If you've noticed that we've suggested that it might be hard to find the Asus EN8800GT or any 512MB GeForce 8800 GT-based card right now, it's because we've seen it out of stock quite a bit in the month and a half since its release. But at that point newer cards will likely be on the market, so we wouldn't buy the GeForce 8800 GT, or any 3D card simply because it's PCI Express 2.0-capable, at least right now. Eventually the software will catch up, and if you go to put this card in a new system a year from now, you'll probably notice some benefit. AMD already has PCI Express 2.0 motherboards out, and we expect both Nvidia, Intel, and others will follow suit early next year. And no game that we know of right now will flood the PCI Express pathway with that much data anyway.
All PCI Express 2.0 hardware (like the ATI Radeon 3000 series cards as well) will work on the PCI Express 1.0 motherboard, so you don't need to worry about an additional hardware upgrade. These processors are implied in the Kepler's power efficiency when the GPU is using one unified clock speed.We should also point out that the new G92 design is PCI Express 2.0-compatible. It is able to control antialiasing with the merge of several sample into one pixel. The result will be a depth value or a final pixel. This hadware component is taking pixel and texel information, and processing it through vector and matrix operations. The other name of this unit is raster operations pipeline. It is able to distort a bitmap image, and also to resize it, to rotate it and to place it as a texture onto a plane of a specific 3D model. This unit was a physical processor separated from the main graphics processing units. You should refer to the respective online stores for the latest price, as well as availability. This is why we prefer for the moment not to show a price. Price: For technical reasons, we cannot currently display a price less than 24 hours, or a real-time price.