The Geforce 8800GTS is the younger of the new 8-series NVidia family. This certain product comes from EVGA - A company formed in 1999, who have risen in popularity enormously over recent years.
EVGA are renowned for their great products, and great warranties.
The GTS is a lot cheaper for ... Read review
Advantages: DirectX-10 Support, SLI Enabled, Perfect for Vista. Disadvantages: Expensive, DX10 Still untested.
...This certain product comes from EVGA - A company formed in 1999, who have risen in popularity enormously over recent years.
EVGA are renowned for their great products, and great warranties.
The GTS is a lot cheaper for a reason. The differences are completely different to the usual clock speed variations, with only 3/4 of the amount of stream processors, and they are slower clocked too.
In fact, The GTS and the ... ...the high resolutions.
The EVGA e-geforce 8800's are competitively priced, and with a 10-year guarantee, I suggest this should be the brand you buy.
If I was you, I'd hold on for DX10, as there are currently no games or apps that can handle it. We have not seen ATIs contribution either, and the 8800's may not be as good as they are hyped up to be at the moment.
My advice: Hold on for a DX10 card, go for something a little ... more
The Geforce 8800GTS is the younger of the new 8-series NVidia family. This certain product comes from EVGA - A company formed in 1999, who have risen in popularity enormously over recent years. EVGA are renowned for their great products, and great warranties.
The GTS is a lot cheaper for a reason. The differences are completely different to the usual clock speed variations, with only 3/4 of the amount of stream processors, and they are slower clocked too.
In fact, The GTS and the GTX have even more differences - The GTX is huge - requiring 2 PCI-E connectors just to power it! while the GTS still only needs the one. It also only has 640mb onboard memory compared to the 768mb on the GTX. However, the card is still huge - at 230mm long.
The huge heatsink and fan on the card don't make too much noise, although will be very noticable in a silent pc!
This card isn't cheap either. At around £300, you could get a much cheaper DX9 card, or have two in SLI. The GTS gives about the same rate of performance in DX9, but its selling point is the DX10 capabilities, which thus far, remain untested. In DX9 games, it performs to about the same level as any high-end DX9 card would. So if you are looking for a good card to play games such as Half-Life 2, Supreme Commander, Bettlefield 2142 etc, I suggest getting an ATI Radeon X1950XT as they are very cheap at the moment, and perform very well.
If you are adamant on getting one of the new DX10 cards (8800's), I suggest you should go for a 320mb version, which cost around £200. They handle resolutions up to 1680x1050 very well, only struggling at the high resolutions. The EVGA e-geforce 8800's are competitively priced, and with a 10-year guarantee, I suggest this should be the brand you buy.
If I was you, I'd hold on for DX10, as there are currently no games or apps that can handle it. We have not seen ATIs contribution either, and the 8800's may not be as good as they are hyped up to be at the moment. My advice: Hold on for a DX10 card, go for something a little cheaper for the time being, or if you are desperate, go for a 320mb version, they are a lot cheaper, and delivery there or thereabouts the same performance.
The only problems I had with this card was installation with Vista. It would not pick the card up to start with, so I had to install the BETA drivers before inserting the card. With this in my PC, Vista gave me an experience rating of 5.0, (Very High), and I look forward to testing any DX10 games upon release.
Advantages: DX 10 compatible Blistering FPS Disadvantages: Power hungry, Run at high temperatures, BIG!
Just received 2 of these bad boys today and on first impressions all I can say is WOW they are huge! so first of all if you have a small case then you will! hit problems with these cards. Now to the good bits the 8800 series are the first DX "DirectX" 10 compatible graphic cards and are all souped up to play games like CRYSIS http://www.electronicarts.co.uk/games/8456/. However you need to have Windows Vista to get DX 10 as other versions of windows only have DX 9 saying that though you still get blistering frame rates on DX 9 games with these cards. I have always gone for cheapish mid range graphics cards in the past but decided to splash out for a change and I must say I am pleasantly supprised with the performance of this card .
Like I said earlier make sure you have enough space in your tower as these cards are BIG! they are also ...
Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista / XP
Recommended Power Supply
400 W
Software Included
Crysis
Peripheral / Interface Devices
Additional power connector
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Manufacturer's product description
Founded in 1999, EVGA has grown exponentially in the channel, serving the system builder, distribution and retail markets with products that offer the highest in quality and customer satisfaction, thereby making the computing experience transparent to the hardware in the box. PRODUCT FEATURES: NVIDIA unified architecture with GigaThread technology; Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 support; NVIDIA SLI ready; 16x full-screen anti-aliasing; True 128-bit floating-point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting; NVIDIA quantum effects physics processing technology; Two dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560x1600 resolution displays; NVIDIA PureVideo technology; PCI Express support; OpenGL 2.0 support; NVIDIA nView multi-display technology.
