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Thursday, October 11, 2007
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There are some advantages to being a reviewer. One of these is getting to review the fastest graphics cards the world has to offer and in the last couple of weeks I've been lucky enough to have a look at two. The second card is this one, an 8800 Ultra from PNY. Is the performance worth the monster price tag? Let's see.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
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Although PNY might not be the general port of call for enthusiasts when it comes to upgrading their graphics card, they produce a wide range of GPUs designed for users of not only the latest and greatest, but the mid range cards too. Today I have such a card, the 8800GTS 320mb which other manufacturers have done very well with. Let's see if PNY can do the same.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
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Updated with better overclocking results! 2.2V seems to be what the PNY memory needed because the clock speed increased another 100 MHz without any difficulty. The memory ended up hitting a maximum speed of 1160 MHz and that's definitely very respectable with 4-4-4-12 timings! Let's check out what these bad boys can do when the timings are loosened up.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Rated officially for 3-4-4-8 operation at 800MHz at a full 2.3v, the PNY XLR8 kit certainly has the specs to back them up, and looking at those heatspreaders confirm that PNY is serious about this kit of memory. The XLR8 memory has a nice look to them that has a strong resemblance to that of Corsair's Dominator line. The "XLR8" signature is nice looking and has become, pardon the pun, a signature denoting their "Performance Edition" computer parts, such as their GeForce 8000 series video cards...
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Friday, June 22, 2007
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When I played with Asus' 8800GTX, I was disappointed. It wasn't special. It was a stock-clocked GTX, with a stock trimmings, a simple bundle, at a price well above the competition. It didn't even overclock that well. What we have here from PNY is a stock-overclocked 8800GTX, part of their "XLR8" line of enthusiast hardware, and it's one of the least expensive 8800GTXs on the market. It has no bundle to speak of-outside of the driver disk, cables, and a handful of adapters, all necessary inclusions-therefore nothing to drive up the price.
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
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When it comes to memory shopping for your computer, flashes of flair complement the quality of the memory rather than make up for its deficiencies. Never ever buy RAM by the way it looks - you're fooling yourself if you do. Good memory is all about the specs, clock speeds and CAS latency timings. Warranty and service/support come second.... and if it just happens to look cool than all the better. However, the appearance of memory modules for a performance tuned computer are totally un-important.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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The PNY XLR8 D22GX85XL-5 dual channel memory kit has a default clock speed of DDR2-1066 MHz while using 5-5-5-15 timings and a voltage of 2.2V. The XLR8 D22GX85XL-5 is compatible with nVIDIA's EPP standard so that means if you're a novice overclocker, team the memory up with the proper motherboard and the system will overclock itself.
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PNY clocks the PNY XLR8 8800 Ultra Overclocked to 648 MHz on the core and 2.2GHz on the memory. The shader clock on the PNY XLR8 8800 Ultra Overclocked runs 1512MHz. Memory bandwidth is 107.4 GB/sec and the fill rate is 41.4 billion pixels per second.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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The fastest overclocked 8800 GTX that I have tested to date is the XFX 8800 GTX XXX and that card has a core clock of 630MHz, a memory clock of 2GHz and a shader clock of 1350MHz. For more details on the features of the PNY 8800 GTX Overclocked, check out the specifications page of this review.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
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If you are looking in the low $200 range for your next graphics card the PNY Verto 8600 GTS is an option worth serious consideration. This graphics card is very fast and would make for an excellent Vista based media center computer on a low end CPU. If gaming is your bag, the PNY Verto 8600 GTS works well on common sized LCD displays. Overall, the PNY Verto 8600 GTS is a great choice for gamers on a lower budget looking to the DirectX 10 future.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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If you are a serious PC gamer or hardcore overclocker you need good RAM. PNY has a nice set of RAM called the XLR8 PC2-8500 DDR2 that runs at 1066MHz. This RAM is a dual channel kit consisting of two 1GB sticks. Once installed I was able to verify with CPU-Z that the RAM was running at the advertised speeds thanks to the SLI-Ready nature and the EPP settings, even the voltage was set correctly automatically.
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Friday, March 30, 2007
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I have to say I was impressed at the ability of the box stock PNY 8800 GTS 320MB to chug along playing Oblivion at these settings. The only time I noticed any lag or a frame rate problem was during fights when I was moving around quickly. Otherwise the game chugged along beautifully.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Extreme HD gaming and video is a growing trend this year for enthusiast PC systems. Thanks to the new, thinner tech process and the optimised design of the pixel processors nVidia has come up with a top-end graphics chip which is the smallest and most economical in the industry. And PNY's Verto GeForce 7900 GTX graphics card provides everything gamers need to support the latest 3D games, HD displays and next generation operating systems...
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Saturday, May 7, 2005
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The underlying technology is good enough to state that you cannot buy a bad GeForce 6600 GT card. It's best-suited for playing games at 1280x1024 with a modicum of image enhancement. That fits in perfectly with the kind of customer it's aimed at, who'll most likely be using a 17" TFT or 19" CRT that both tend to run natively at that resolution. PNY's effort, by dint of its bundle and warranty, is a pretty good choice for those who have <£150 to spend on a graphics card right now, although the addition of a custom, quieter fan and dual-DVI would be on the top of my wish list for PNY's engineers, however. A solid card based on sound tech.
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