OC3D Review: XFX 8800 Ultra Extreme Edition

[FarFarAway]

We take a look at one of the fastest cards money can buy.



See what you think

[Mullet]

Nice, review Matt.

Would love to have 2 of these in my rig...if only to massage my 3DMark scores in an upward direction.

[Pat123]

Nice review niceeee card.. bit too higher price for me tho...

New cards hitting the shelves next week? is this the 8800GT

[Ham]

Great read as ever kemp.

With these just didn't cost as much

[Rastalovich]

Great read.

Still don`t like 2 slot gfx approach, but also appreciate the existing situation with that generation, and the cooler is proven.

Nice bundle imo, looked like both GRAW and the Lost Planet will give u something to thrash at immediately. Don`t know what else u would want in a bundle aside from tat.

Don`t like the price, especially with the very good alternatives about.

A little bemused with the release timing too tbh, seeing as XFX do have a number of already great 8800 options out there, but maybe this will be their consolidation card moving forward for the older 8800 models. Knowing perhaps that there isn`t a big enough performance gap between the 8800s about to come out and the existing GTX cards, this could be a reason for them to push this Ultra as far as they can.

Don`t think it`s a good option at this time, imo. Nice overall package, be excellent if it were cheaper - c`mon u`ve made u`r monies out of this range by now.

[Hatman]

I dont think the clock speed boost on that ultra over a normal ultra are enough to justify buying it, if it was 100mhz then yeh, but it isnt.

[FarFarAway]

Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'

Still don`t like 2 slot gfx approach, but also appreciate the existing situation with that generation, and the cooler is proven.

Personally this never bothers me, but I can see why it would some

Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'

Nice bundle imo, looked like both GRAW and the Lost Planet will give u something to thrash at immediately. Don`t know what else u would want in a bundle aside from tat.

I think only Lost Planet comes with the card, I was just sent a review model with this one that had an older title in it.

Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'

Don`t like the price, especially with the very good alternatives about.

I agree, thus a 5 for pricing

Originally Posted by name='Hatman'

I dont think the clock speed boost on that ultra over a normal ultra are enough to justify buying it, if it was 100mhz then yeh, but it isnt.

Hmm, well I suppose it depends if yo want the warranty and want to pay the extra £40 on top of a normal Ultra

Originally Posted by name='Rastalovich'

A little bemused with the release timing too tbh, seeing as XFX do have a number of already great 8800 options out there, but maybe this will be their consolidation card moving forward for the older 8800 models. Knowing perhaps that there isn`t a big enough performance gap between the 8800s about to come out and the existing GTX cards, this could be a reason for them to push this Ultra as far as they can.

Don`t think it`s a good option at this time, imo. Nice overall package, be excellent if it were cheaper - c`mon u`ve made u`r monies out of this range by now.

Not a good option right now I agree.

However on the release date: it's been out a little while but XFX took a while to send me it and the first card I got through had been fiddled with by a previous reviewer and was missing screws etc, thus the delay

[Brooksie]

Price is a bit high, but good card. 8800gt is gonna be sweet though..

[Hatman]

Thats the thing, at the rate things are going 2x 8800gt's are going to cost less then a single ultra while 1 GT performs nearly as well as an ultra.

8800gt SLI ftw.

[FarFarAway]

SLI ftl tbh mate

One single fast card ftw