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Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT Overclocked Edition

That would be the new Ultra Slimfast

The first thing you notice with the GeForce 8800 GT is that it is a single slot card.  This is because of NVidia's new .65nm manufacturing.  Smaller die means less power consumption and cooling apparatus.  This obviously put the NVidia engineers on a small kick; notice all the memory (512MB in this case) is on GPU side of the card.  The normal or standard GeForce 8800 GT cards has a core and memory speed of 600 and 1800MHz respectively.  The Inno3D's factory overclocked card hits the streets at a lean and mean 700MHz on the core and 2000MHz for its half gig of GDDR3 memory.  That's roughly a 15% boost on the core right off.  There are some other manufacturers out there releasing overclocked cards but nothing even close to this.

  

A quick side view of the single slot 8800 GT.  Nothing special here except a small graphic that will be visible with the card installed.

  

The cooler focuses on velocity of air flow by compressing the air intakes and exhausts.  Toward the rear of the card we see the 6-pin PCI-E power connection just under a small grill area allowing air flow over the rearward mounted capacitors.  A small 50mm fan is mounted as the primary intake blowing air over the convection fins cooling the memory and the GeForce 8800 GT core.

Directly over the SLI connection post we have an exhaust area where the air from the 50mm fan vents.  Aluminum convection fins means faster heat dissipation and let's hope so with this rather un-robust cooler.

  

The business end of the Inno3D 8800 GT Overclock Edition sports dual DVI ports accompanying a S-Video out port.

Performance

Testing has been going on with this card for almost two weeks now.  But earlier this week I scrapped everything after a conversation I had with a friend.  The short of it was that we were talking about the incredible performance I had found with this card.  It quickly became clear to me that I was having trouble articulating how much bang for the buck the GeForce 8800 GT represented.  So I took my buddy's query on as my testing focus.  This being the question "Why not just get some high end GeForce 7900 cards in SLI?  It can't be THAT much faster than two 7900s can it?"  A reasonable question and with my having two GeForce 7900 GS cards in my LAN box a very practical one.

Testing will be done by real world gameplay with frame rates recorded by the FRAPS program.  Results are graphed in three minute segments from three game titles.  Two of these are right off the shelf, Need for Speed: Pro Street and the very much anticipated Crysis.  Inside each of these games, we have saved spots where we can record gameplay from a set location making the course of action easier to duplicate between test products.  Screen resolution will be 1600 x 1200 pixels in each run with all other settings set to max with the exception of FSAA.  Full screen anti aliasing will be set to 0x in our testing.  Other setting changes will be noted during each benchmark.

Test Bed


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