OC3D Review: XFX 8800 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition
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FarFarAway
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Clear your cache mate, it's 92%
sbrehm72255
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Nice review........that's one of the cards I'm currently looking at getting......
One small question for you all though, with those 2 sets of mounting holes around the core, what type of GPU water blocks will fit w/wo adapter plates/fittings????? Just wondering if my current Swiftech MCW60 will fit without having to get any sort of adapters.
One small question for you all though, with those 2 sets of mounting holes around the core, what type of GPU water blocks will fit w/wo adapter plates/fittings????? Just wondering if my current Swiftech MCW60 will fit without having to get any sort of adapters.
Rastalovich
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Outstanding review.
Completely agree with the summation in the conclusion.
Does beg a question as to what they test the Crysis engine with in-house. Unless they test it at lower resolutions than they think the community are using.
Theoretical Quad SLI, Quad X6850, best mobo, best memory, all overclocked under sub-space temps - and u`ll be "playable" ? - sounds pretty poor dev to me. DX9 tho and it kicks.
Anywho, it`s gotta be the card of choice atm, particularly bang per buck.
Drivers will improve, theres no doubt. Kinda widens the gap between generations when this happens, be interesting to see the same cards tested with those drivers in so many months time. Or maybe by then the top of the range card will be out and the others will be fairly insignificant.
Excellent read, been really looking forward to a trusted opinion on these cards, and the choice of this XFX model caps it all off.
Speaking of the HSF houver tho - can the usual suspects be fitted to this as a replacement ?
Completely agree with the summation in the conclusion.
Does beg a question as to what they test the Crysis engine with in-house. Unless they test it at lower resolutions than they think the community are using.
Theoretical Quad SLI, Quad X6850, best mobo, best memory, all overclocked under sub-space temps - and u`ll be "playable" ? - sounds pretty poor dev to me. DX9 tho and it kicks.
Anywho, it`s gotta be the card of choice atm, particularly bang per buck.
Drivers will improve, theres no doubt. Kinda widens the gap between generations when this happens, be interesting to see the same cards tested with those drivers in so many months time. Or maybe by then the top of the range card will be out and the others will be fairly insignificant.
Excellent read, been really looking forward to a trusted opinion on these cards, and the choice of this XFX model caps it all off.
Speaking of the HSF houver tho - can the usual suspects be fitted to this as a replacement ?
FarFarAway
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Full cover blocks won't fit at all so I've heard, but blocks fitting just the core should be OK.
As far as Crysis is concerned I don't think it's bad development, it's just a far more stressful game in DX10 mode. You really can tell (even at a low res) why the current gen cards are having problems, there's some awesome effects and detailing in there. The current gen cards (sort of including 8800GT) are still the first batch of cards to come to the market supporting DX10...remember the FX series? You get my point.
Crysis will look truly stunning once we have hardware that can play it at an appropriate level
As far as Crysis is concerned I don't think it's bad development, it's just a far more stressful game in DX10 mode. You really can tell (even at a low res) why the current gen cards are having problems, there's some awesome effects and detailing in there. The current gen cards (sort of including 8800GT) are still the first batch of cards to come to the market supporting DX10...remember the FX series? You get my point.
Crysis will look truly stunning once we have hardware that can play it at an appropriate level
:worship: 
and hopefully a winner with matured drivers ?FarFarAway
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SP demo is in beta stage afaik
I did not have at any stage any issues with drivers
I did not have at any stage any issues with drivers
Mr. Smith
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This card seems pretty good, 3dm06 score is ~15.5K with one stick of turd ram.
I think the ram issue is preventing me from getting more from the card.
Clocks like a champ, see sig. Not even at max yet!
Edit: The mcw60 does fit this card with the standard/old mounting plate (read non g80 plate). I'm in two minds wheather or not to stick this on water as the temps seem ok to me, 81 max at load after a few hours...
After playing with the card more I'm leaning towards it's 'OK' rather than amazing, seems to be a lot of hype. This is possibly due to me swapping out the GTS for the GT and expecting some GTX-esque performance as people were stating, I've yet so see/feel that tbh. Probably because my rig is crippled with one stick of ram.
The hsf is small, I beleive iirc 500cm2 where as the GTS is 2000cm2, but seems adequate.
Once my ram arrives I'll re-edit this post with a more definitive opinion.
I think the ram issue is preventing me from getting more from the card.
Clocks like a champ, see sig. Not even at max yet!
Edit: The mcw60 does fit this card with the standard/old mounting plate (read non g80 plate). I'm in two minds wheather or not to stick this on water as the temps seem ok to me, 81 max at load after a few hours...
After playing with the card more I'm leaning towards it's 'OK' rather than amazing, seems to be a lot of hype. This is possibly due to me swapping out the GTS for the GT and expecting some GTX-esque performance as people were stating, I've yet so see/feel that tbh. Probably because my rig is crippled with one stick of ram.
The hsf is small, I beleive iirc 500cm2 where as the GTS is 2000cm2, but seems adequate.
Once my ram arrives I'll re-edit this post with a more definitive opinion.
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I'm not a gamer, even though I won't mind playing with this new system I got. I got a Dell with the Q6600 Quad processor. I am a videographer though and I'd like to be able to show HD video to my clients on large monitors that support 1920x1080 with no stutter. Newegg has this card for about 259 and a cheaper version of this card the XFX PVT88PYHF4 GeForce 8800GT 512MB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...OTC-pr1c3watch-_-Video+Cards-_-XFX-_-14150272
for about $30 less. Are the extra $30 for this version worth it? Also, I've read that these GT8800 cards run pretty hot. What's a decent inexpensive cooling system that would fit in a small case, like the ones the Dell Inspiron 530 have?
I'm not a gamer, even though I won't mind playing with this new system I got. I got a Dell with the Q6600 Quad processor. I am a videographer though and I'd like to be able to show HD video to my clients on large monitors that support 1920x1080 with no stutter. Newegg has this card for about 259 and a cheaper version of this card the XFX PVT88PYHF4 GeForce 8800GT 512MB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...OTC-pr1c3watch-_-Video+Cards-_-XFX-_-14150272
for about $30 less. Are the extra $30 for this version worth it? Also, I've read that these GT8800 cards run pretty hot. What's a decent inexpensive cooling system that would fit in a small case, like the ones the Dell Inspiron 530 have?
