With everything starting to get in High-Definition video playback it means you need a card that can handle 1080i resolutions for HDTV and HD gaming. The GeForce 8600 GTS are going to be able to bring these features to you at a very good price. With OpenGL 2.0 support you get top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL applications. NVIDIAs Lumenex Engine delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fast frame rates. Another feature is NVIDIAs Quantum Effects Technology that has advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enabling a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU-all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI. With 16x Anti-aliasing you get lighting fast, high-quality images up to 16x sample rates that obliterates jagged edges. Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games. Support for Microsoft DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.0 Display Formats - Dual DVI out
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Customer Rating: Summary: Senior graphics at a good price. Comment: Good performance, excellent graphics and great speed
are the characteristics of this card and gift a good price in comparison to other brands and models.
Do not hesitate to buy it. Customer Rating: Summary: Great product. Comment: Great product. Came in promptly and set in well with my computer. Only cons with this graphics card is the amount of cpu resources it consumes. Yet that really wouldn't be a problem if my processor is top is at least a newer brand of duo cores or better. Aside from my own processor being slow which really doesn't effect the quality of this graphics card I say its well worth the buy. Hey after all if need be I can have a sli connection. Could be a 5 in my book but then again nahhh... :) Customer Rating: Summary: great! Comment: Plays Crysis, Gears of War, Call of Duty 4, Rainbow Six Vegas, Bioshock and others with full details. Very fast and high resolution. No complains so far. I have finished all of the above games using this card and it worked just EXCELLENT.
Specs: Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz 2GB RAM, Intel MB, Windows XP Pro Customer Rating: Summary: Bad Product! Comment: Bought two of these cards back in Novemeber. Worked until before Christmas and quit. Sent motherboard back thinking it was PCI slot. Got it back still no video. Sent cards in, got them back still no video. How can four cards go bad on a P5N32E SLI Plus (MO) Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHZ (PROS)and 4G Kingston 6600 800MHZ RAM? Did the reaserch for compatiblity not the research on quality. If XFX doesn't come through soon, I say don't buy!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Good card, best in class 256-bit memory Comment: The card works very well, but under Vista x64, problems occur if the video resoltion is higher than 1024x768. At 1280x1024, framerate drops to 15-20 fps under train simulator 1, and even modern games like crysis will make the card behave strangely. Overall, this is a nice gaming card.
Specs: e6600 at 3.6ghz, 4gb DDR2 800, GA-P35-DS3R from gigabyte.
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The card pulls incredible framerates in Windows XP. I am now pulling 60+ at max settings in quake 4, BS: Midway, CSS, CS, Train sim 1, and call of duty 4.
If you purchase this card, use under windows XP (x86) and Vista (x86).
