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Google is all for googling, as long as you don't google a Google executive. That's the lesson that Jai Singh, CNET News.com founder and top editor, learned the hard way when the company informed him that no one from Google would speak to anyone at News.com for a full year.

The boycott came to light last week when News.com began including a twist on the standard corporate response in articles relating to Google. It read, "Google could not be immediately reached for comment. (Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story.)"

That previous story, which News.com linked to, was headlined "Google Balances Privacy, Reach," and showed just how much information Google has placed at our fingertips. To illustrate, staff writer Elinor Mills spent 30 minutes googling Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive officer, then published Schmidt's net worth ($1.5 billion), his net gain from selling Google stock this year ($140 million), the town he calls home (Atherton, California), the fact that he is an amateur pilot and "roamed the desert at the Burning Man art festival in Nevada."

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NVIDIA Reference Card - X-bit Labs | nV News | Guru3D | TrustedReviews | AnandTech *ALL NEW*
This is the stock reference card provided to review sites by NVIDIA. It is clocked at 400/1000 and isn't available for retail purchase.

eVGA - Guru3D | GDHardware.com *NEW*
eVGA is offering two models of their 7800GT. The first is essentially a reference card with an eVGA branded cooler slapped on. It has the default 400/1000 clocks and comes only with the standard-faire bundle items such as DVI-D-sub adapters, VIVO connectors, and a power splitter. The second model comes pre-overclocked to 445/1076 and ships with the full version of EA's Battlefield 2. eVGA has also recently introduced a lifetime warranty on its cards.

BFG Tech - [H]ard|OCP | Tweak Town *NEW*
Famous for offering most of their cards pre-overclocked and with lifetime warranties, BFG has made no exception with their 7800GT. The card comes clocked at 425/1050. The bundle is the standard stuff, with no games included. It does come with a copy of Ulead VideoSuite 9SE.

Leadtek - VR-Zone
Leadtek's cards have been known to be great overclockers. Their card comes overclocked at 450/1050 and bundles with two great games - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Chaos Theory is a great benchmark for your card's power when antialiasing and HDR are enabled.

XFX - Hot Hardware | The Tech Report | Neoseeker | Hexus.net
XFX's card also comes pre-overclocked at 450/1050. The bundle offers full versions of X²: The Threat, Far Cry, and MotoGP 2. While no gamepad or t-shirt is included as with the XFX 7800GTX, most people would agree that games are more worthwhile. After all, that's what you bought your card for, right?

PNY
PNY's card doesn't come with any impressive features. It isn't pre-overclocked and doesn't come with any bundled games. PNY does however make solid video cards. For a limited time, if you buy one through Newegg you'll get a free 2GB mp3 player ($179.99 value) with purchase.

Point of View - Guru3D
This is a lesser known player in the video card market, but they have been around a while. Basically providing reference cards, the 7800GT is no exception. The core is clocked at the standard 400MHz, but the RAM however comes in at 1053MHz. It also comes with a very nice games bundle, which includes Far Cry, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and Thief 3: Deadly Shadows.

Asus *NEW*
The 7800GT from Asus appears to be a stock card with an Asus sticker slapped on the reference cooler. The clocks are stock (400/1000), and the bundle includes Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, Project Snowblind, and Xpand Rally as well as some Asus branded software. An Asian hardware site has photos of what could be an upcoming revision of Asus's 7800GT.

Look for more cards to be added as information becomes available.