OC3D review: Gainward 8600 GT Bliss PCX Golden Sample GLH Edition

[FarFarAway]

Worth a look at this HDMI-enabled card?

Read on...

 

[ionicle]

last page, "eprformance"

needs editing

otherwise, good review

 

[FarFarAway]

Ta, must have missed that

 

[Bungral]

Nice review Matt..

I could be wrong here but when you say the increase of the overall 3DMark 06 results when overclocked is 200... Is it not 1000 ish??

I may well be wrong as I just scanned that part.. Will read in detail a little later.

 

[FarFarAway]

6293 to 7272? Looks around 1000 points to me, did I not put 1000? Mebbe not...it was late and i was thinking 1000 ish

 

[Bungral]

6293 to 7272? Looks around 1000 points to me, did I not put 1000? Mebbe not

Na think it said 200... Least I'm not going mad (er)

 

[Rastalovich]

Nice insight.

Certainly gets game spankage off the Ati alt card. Although the 3dmark scores are pretty much how I`d expect them to be.

Now they show this card sporting 3 possible outputs - can it manage that ?

1 BIG dissapointment for me, especially with it having HDMI as a standard connection, is no audio passthrough. MSI seem to have taken the corner of the market with this.

Hard to think the 8600 is about to become a `last generation` card.