![]() When you look at the performance gains over the GeForce 7950GT as well as the GeForce 8800 GTS, the GeForce 8800GTX is hands down the best card to own right now. It's a truly impressive result and one of the aspects that really makes this card stand out among the others.The power of this card is truly impressive. With this card, you can turn up everything and get some great framerates at high resolutions. NVIDIA's new antialiasing technique really shines with some great performance. It's modeled somewhat after the PlayStation 2 style with the dual analog sticks and four trigger buttons along with the four top buttons and directional pad. The USB gamepad is pretty serviceable so if you need another controller then you'll get one with the card. These two can come in handy and they're free. RestoreIt! is similiar to the more popular Symantec Ghost while Virtual Drive lets you copy a CD or DVD to the hard drive and run it from there. The two utilities are RestoreIt! and Virtual Drive. If you need to connect this card via the old VGA connector, Foxconn has included two DVI to VGA adapters for you.įoxconn bundles their video cards with two utilities and a USB gamepad. The Dual-DVI connection is capable of a maximum resolution of 2560x1600 with 32-bit color at 60Hz. ![]() With this card, you'll be able to enjoy some smooth HD playback as it will help decode the higher bandwidth video.ĭual-DVI connectors and various TV outs via a pigtail lets you connect this card in various ways. You'll still need software capable of playing the new formats of course such as Cyberlink's Power DVD 7. I've been eyeing the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive for my console and PC and this card will come in handy for HD viewing. If you want to watch high definition video on your high definition display, then you'll be glad to know that this card is HDCP compliant so as long as you connect it to an HDCP compliant display source then you'll be able to enjoy Blu-Ray or HD DVDs in full resolution. If you know a little bit about electronics, you can adjust the lights yourself to suite your needs. There aren't any blinking actions to make it annoying so if you have a window inside your case and love to show off lights, this card will emit a blue glow for you. Situated around underneath the outer shell are blue LEDs that light up when the computer is turned on. There is one unique twist that Foxconn has added to the cooler though. The venting of the hot air out the back of the secondary slot will help keep the inside of your case cooler. I could hardly hear the fan spinning even under load. The over-sized cooler is big but it runs very quiet. Physically, the card is pretty much the same as the reference cards out there. I'm thinking they should just build an interface and case to allow another power supply to be installed so that the video cards can have it's own dedicated power rather than sharing it with the entire system. You can imagine the monstrosity once you can connect more than two of these cards together and the number of power lines being strung through the inside of your computer. You can plug either one in for SLI to work between two GTX cards. No support now for the secondary SLI connector but it's there for the future. Finally, there are two SLI connectors at the top instead of one. I've found that a few cases interfered with the horizontal facing power connectors and this change will help in those situations especially with two of them to connect. While most cards have their power connectors facing to the right of the card, the ones on the GTX face up so that you can attach them a little easier. The GTX requires more juice and you'll need two power connectors for this card to work. Another change is there are TWO power connectors on this card. You can see in one of the comparison photographs just how much longer it is. So what's different between this and the GTS version. The GeForce 8800 GTX is the same as the GeForce 8800 GTS I previewed but faster. You can read about most of the new features of the GF8800 from my preview so I won't go too much into it again. The memory interface is 384-bit for the GTX while the GTS is at 320-bit. Compared to the GTS version, the GTX runs 13% faster in the core, 11% faster for the stream processors, and 11% faster for the memory. The core runs at 575MHz with the memory running at 1800MHz DDR. Featuring 128 individual stream processors running at 1.35GHz and 768MB of GDDR3 memory, the Foxconn GeForce 8800 GTX is a DirectX10 capable card. The Foxconn GeForce 8800 GTX is the top of the line enthusiast card currently on the market.
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