my comments is like many reviewers across anandtech, guru3d, vr ...

actually i do feel a bit disappointed after trying this out, even at OC'ed state, still can't play NFS:C at high settings smoothly at 1280x1024. the AA and AF is dragging the card down, due to its 128 bit, in COH campaign first mission, there will be noticeable frame drop whenever there's explosion, and zooming farthest away from the battlefield.

ur 22" LCD what resolution? I highly doubt 8600 series will be enough for that on high settings, only can be said barely enough for dx9 games. If u have patience, wait till 8800gts price drop, or wait for ati's hd2600s, its coming in june,
many ppl now are waiting for ati's midrange to arrive, only then to decide which to choose

I am also waiting for ATI's midrange, but looking at the specs I don't think it's going to get any better. The "midrange" HD2600 has a 128-bit bus like the 8600GT - so I very highly doubt it's going to be any better than the previous ATI midrange, the X1950Pro which has a 256-bit bus.

It's like NVIDIA and ATI do it on purpose; making the midrange cards suck so you have to buy their flagship cards if you want to run your games at high-res AND be DX10-ready :/.

This post has been edited by Chalcedony: May 21 2007, 02:38 AM

22" inch natives at 1680x1050.. so no prob the card can handle it. even my old 9600xt can handle the native res. heck..my old GF4 TI can handle 1950 something no problem. but the problem is wether it can suppor games on that setting. but to be honest i dont mind playing games on non native res just as long as the game runs smoothly.......dunno about u guys lah but to me gameplay is more important that shiny eftects.......

so far the card performed good. I even OC the fella till 650/900 running smooth and stable... Well my 3Dmark05 hit 10kabove.... kinda impressive to me for such an upgrade.... The goodthing is it is not power hunger.

If install the zalman cooler (if there is) i think i can further OC the fella to 700/1000.

Will share if i have OC till the limit.

by the way, retail seldom sell... buy from forumers la... can try "Useless" he is selling kinda low price...

Well, if its really true that the ATI mid range card is also running on 128bit, it seems no point in waiting for them as well right.I do not neccessary need to play games on 22" native resolution but of course, if possible, i do hope it will be able to handle it..8600GTS seems like a possible solution for me unless the 8800 will drop price like crazy in the coming week..

temp isnt limiting the OCablility, but voltage is, so unless u wanna try out pencil voltmod, there's little chance to OC it till 700/1000, eventhough it will, but it will crash more often and perform even worse than lower clock

This post has been edited by dattebayo: May 21 2007, 11:14 AM

tht's great oced card u have there...
hit 10k in 3Dmark05... post the pic also mah...
wanna see the frame rates u got in games...

can but i dont know how to post.... can teach me ar? ha ha ha.....

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Added on May 21, 2007, 11:40 amdid you over clock yurs bro? what is your clock speed.
Pencil mod.... hmmm... duno abut that...

I think i will try OC further today.....

This post has been edited by jeromeccm: May 21 2007, 11:40 AM

current : 680/900
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultan...D=0&UID=9253366
benchmark run at 675/900

if u manage to OC till 700/950 with great stability, let me know

ok.... My benchies seems abit higher maybe because of my +4600.
I bench mine at 650/900 to get the 5k+ in 3DM06. I have a feeling it will hit 700/950

Test Setup - 24/7

Proc :Intel C2d X6800 @3.46 (266x13) 1.34v
Mobo :Gigabyte N680SLI DQ6
Ram :Team Xtreem PC2-6400 4x1gb CL3 @800, 3-3-3-8 2T 2.35vdimm
Gpu :2x Asus 8800Ultra @648/2264
HSF :Coolit Freezone
PSU :Silverstone OP1000
OS : Windows XP SP2
Driver : Nvidia 158.22



|8800 Ultra|
3dmark 01 - 61371 [attachmentid=234931]
3dmark 05 - 19774 [attachmentid=234930]
3dmark 06 - 13026 [attachmentid=234929]

|8800 Ultra SLied|
3dmark 01 - 64663 [attachmentid=234932]
3dmark 05 - 21854 [attachmentid=234933]
3dmark 06 - 15515 [attachmentid=234937]

Super Pi
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16k - 00.140s
32k - 00.297s
64k - 00.625s
128k - 01.375s
256k - 0.3000s
512k - 06.703s
1M - 15.078s
2M - 38.328s
4M - 1m 29.172s
8M - 3m 17.938s
16M - 7m 24.125s
32M - 16m 07.922s

This post has been edited by cstkl1: May 21 2007, 02:55 PM

ur SLI ultra doesnt look too promising
here is similar specs as u

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=1658232

not sure whether he has SLIed or no

also the link u showed is at 4.8ghz

This post has been edited by cstkl1: May 21 2007, 01:54 PM

anybody hv try 8600gt sli... could it perform par with 8800gts...

This post has been edited by arjuna_mfna: May 21 2007, 02:45 PM

damn 20 K for 05? holy god in heaven. i only trust 05 scores since it doesnt take into account the CPU speed as much!

btw people.. does the RAM efect the score. i suspect it doesnt. so anyway this past few days my GTX is idling at 78C. weird.. it normally at 71C..

but ur SM2.0/SM3 score is still lower than him

its impossible and doesnt cost effective at all
2x8600gt price is almost same as 1 pc of 8800gts 320 mb

i believe cstkl rig can push more score if he oc more...maybe 22k??
dunno my gts sli will do how much...

eh for 8800 series... does all manufacturers use the same fan?

because last time, even 7900gs came with various fans, coolermaster, zalman, and other oem type

so for 8800 is universal for all brands rite? All major brands look almost the same, except the winfast TDH extreme version, looks like transformer

dude... a question here..

when i run 3Dmark01 with my 6800GS, the result is about 20K but when i run my 3Dmark01 with my 8600GT, the Result only shows 23k... do you face this as well? atually i expect the 3Dmark01 to be more than 25k... looking at forumer cstkl1 result, it is so huge difference...... wow....

cstkl1... why dun you push your proc more?? I think it still can go a little beyond that...