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Thursday, June 28, 2007
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We take a look at the fastest GeForce 8600 GTS to hit the labs. It also hits your wallet pretty hard, too, so is a case of a fast SKU that's simply overpriced?
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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XFX and NVIDA have once again teamed up to bring us another outstanding product in the form of the 8600GTS as it has the right balance of performance versus price ratio. Overclocking seems to be very good as well as the card comes overclocked right out of the box, which is something that will set well with the gamers' community. XFX as always offers their double lifetime warranty, which allows the card to maintain its warranty status through a transfer to one additional person. This is a cool thing if you buy the card from a buddy or someone on eBay who has previously registered the card with XFX.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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There is little doubt that if what you are after is the fastest 8600 GTS around you need to be shopping XFX. The XFX 8600 GTS XXX is a very good graphics card for gaming on common 17" and 19" LCD displays and larger if you can stand to loose some image quality.
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The XFX GeForce 8600 GT is a single slot design that requires no additional power connector for operation. This makes the board very energy efficient as it has a maximum power draw of just 43 watts. The XFX GeForce 7600 GT has a is maximum power draw of 65 watts while the GeForce 6600 GT is 70 watts. For the third generation in a row NVIDIA has been able to decrease the power consumption on their mainstream video cards while adding features and improving performance, which is amazing and something for them to brag about.
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New graphics cards are great, especially when they are in the "affordable for most people" range. nVidia's GeForce 8600 and 8500 series has been a long waited product. Why? Most importantly it's the first affordable DirectX 10 capable graphics card from any company and nVidia even have Windows Vista drivers ready for the new range of cards at launch time. This product is so good for the market for two reasons - the first is that consumers who don't have thousands of dollars to spend on a PC can now buy something that is going to offer support for the next generation of graphics (DX10 / Shader Model 4.0 with games like Crysis, Alan Wake and UT2007 coming). The second is because more people will be able to buy these GeForce 8500 and 8500 cards with it's much more attractive price tag, game makers will have even more reason to put resources into making DirectX 10 supported games. The latter is something that is seriously lacking at the moment but the games are on their way slowly but surely.
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