This video card comes with a gamepad for free. It’s really for free, since it keeps the suggested retail price of USD 599 set by nVidia.

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Figure 11: Box of Xgear Dual Reflex Controller.

As you can see on Figures 12 and 13, this gamepad has two controllers and eight buttons. It is connected on the PC thru one USB port.

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Figure 10: Xgear Dual Reflex Controller gamepad.

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Figure 11: Xgear Dual Reflex Controller gamepad, back view.

This gamepad is really awesome and deserves a separated review. Click here to read the Xgear Dual Reflex Controller review.

A piece of advice: we’ve seen some stores not mentioning this free gamepad. Maybe they (or their distributor) are taking the gamepad off from the bundle and trying to sell it separately. According to XFX, they don’t sell this video card to the distributors without the free gamepad, so we think it is your right to get it from free from the store you are buying your XFX GeForce 7800 GTX. ZipZoomFly, TigerDirect and New Egg are three online stores we know that are correctly offering this bundle.

Before going to our benchmarking results, let’s recap this video card main features.