Club 3D 8500GT Silent Edition

Advantages: Cheap, Good Warranty Scheme
Disadvantages: Not as good as intel

...Having used this processor for two months for very intensive programs such as video studio 11 and newer games including medal of honour airborne, i can safely say it has stood up well to the challenge. I purchased this processor to build a whole new rig for video editing as our old dell was not up to the challenge. What a difference this thing made even running vista with a terrible graphics card ( the new 8500gt i ordered didnt arrive so i had to install a 2mb pci card i had hanging around) and i was still running vista and video studio 11 with ease. It runs fine and relatively quietly with the stock fan although you may need to upgrade cooling for overclocking i havent tried this. The two 3ghz cores are very good and can easily cope with converting a file to DVD, surfing and playing music. Overall a very good product for the price... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: brilliantly amazingly god like card
Disadvantages: might melt?! be careful!

...Feel as if you need a new ATI Radeon Graphics processing Unit? I highly reccomend this one! its not as powerful as the Nvdia 8800 GTX in some of the stats, but its different in a lot of ways Gaming companies preferably use the excellent ATI GPU's because they find them more flexible for them and for the consumers. and that is why its worth getting this gpu. It is absoloutly flawless with any game or with any video editing process. The things that happen within this gpu, are truly quite amazing. It morphs and moulds to the game and gives you the best possible results. great card however, my personal experaince with cards made by club havent been brilliant. they have helpful staff, however i wouldnt reccomend them 100% this one is overclocked and is proned to overheating HOWEVER! THERE IS A CONSIDERABLY LARGE FAN TO ASSIST IT... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Handles everything you give it. Good overclocker.
Disadvantages: Very large card and heat sink.

...I bought this graphics card last week in order to upgrade my machine to play the newest games using DirectX 10. The previous card I had was a GeForce 8500GT. Immediately the difference between the cards is clear on paper. Not to mention the price difference. The 8500GT played most newer games on medium graphics settings with a below average frame rate. The ASUS 8800GT was a completly different story. All the settings were maxed out with an average frame rate and no stuttering. This of course was on DirectX 9 as I don't run Vista. This card is though, definately worth buying as it is future-proof with SLi Capability. I bought it with this in mind. For precaution though, I also bought a new PSU to make sure all the power demands were met. The card is fairly large though, it fits in my mATX tower, but is as long as my motherboard... Read review

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