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ASUS 8800GTX 768MB
The Card & Bundle
There are only a handful of variants of the 8800GTX, mostly different shrouds on the stock cooler, or maybe a neat (or tasteless) sticker, because there hasn't been any need for changes. The reference design is very good, and the heatsink fans run inaudibly. The heatsink runs nearly the full length of the card and takes up an additional slot. The fan intakes air and exhausts out the back of the case. The reference design does the job well. On the top edge of the card there are two additional power connectors, since the card requires the extra 150W to run; if the card is under-powered, it beeps loudly and the computer will not boot. At the other end of the edge are two SLI-bridge connections, although only one SLI bridge is needed for standard two-card configurations. The other connector is for four-card setups, unheard of outside of OEM configurations.         The card runs at the reference core and memory speeds, 575MHz and 800MHz, respectively. When the 8800GTX was first released, the one major option, left to the board partners, was HDCP compliance, but a quick look suggests that if you get any GTX, HDCP is a go. And Asus' 8800GTX is no different. It is HDCP compliant, and it has a stock cooler, with a plain Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter sticker, and an Asus-branded fan sticker. This is likely indicative that the game is bundled with the card. Oh look! It is.           One final and pleasing aesthetic touch is the use of black PCB. Some 8800GTXs have your decades-old green board, and frankly, while the desire to cut costs is appreciated, black is the new black. The bundle has a few other extras besides G.R.A.W., a very good game in and of itself, which include GTI Racing (couldn't land some Need for Speed love?), and a copy of 3DMark'06, to drive home the point that the card is in an unlimited class. Also in the box is a pleather (leatherino? Leatherette?) fake-leather 16-CD wallet, two DVI-to-VGA adapters, two 4-pin Molex-to-SLI power adapters, a video-out dongle, some Asus utilities, and out-of-date drivers. It's a better bundle than most, and the CD wallet has proven to be more useful than expected.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card & Bundle Page 3: Test Setup Page 4: Testing - HL2 Episode 1 Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R. Page 6: Testing - Company of Heroes Page 7: Testing - Prey Page 8: Testing - Need for Speed Most Wanted Page 9: Testing - 3DMark 06 Page 10: Performance Summary, Overclocking & Conclusion 
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4 User Comments 1 - Posted by
croc
on June 15, 2007 - 9:15 pm Gts?
2 - Posted by
Paradigm
on June 16, 2007 - 1:10 am GTS....i came through 8dimensional....and i said woah,,, a 768MB GTS...amazing, and here it is just another GTX.....better edit this quick,
3 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on June 16, 2007 - 9:10 am *Cough* At least it's not on the dlkfjas;dfjkk my keyboard needs batteries, damn it. I did the rolley thing. They're AAAs, I don't have spare AAAs. . . Anyway, I can fix the forum, it's up to the powers to change the title of the article. Thanks for pointing that out, it was a really dumb mistake. 4 - Posted by
Kurtis
on June 16, 2007 - 11:49 am Fixed... Sorry about that. The S is so close to the X key. Oopsies. :)
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