Hi All,

I've been using an MSI 8600GTS for quite some time. Last night I plugged in a friend's Colorful 8600GT to help him test. To my surprise the color on my screen isn't as rich and vibrant as my own MSI card. I used to believe that NVidia cards colors are not as rich and vibrant as ATI cards but I'm very shocked that there's a difference between 2 different brand cards with the same GPU.

The other thing I noticed is the curved lines on 3D applications are not as smooth the ones I see with my card. I did not change the application's AA settings between tries.

These are just my opinion from my observations. I don't have another Colorful card to draw a conclusion from but I believe the above is enough for me to think twice about buying China made graphic cards anymore.

Cheers.

PS: this is an intentional re-post because earlier I posted in the wrong area 'Hardware Questions and Answers'

This post has been edited by cyclonite: Oct 4 2007, 12:46 PM

skydna: that's a very accurate statement!!

anyway I'm just wondering, my monitor is digital (DVI-D) connection to the card. so technically the 'output area' shouldn't affect right? because there's no conversion from digital to analog. I'm not too sure how it works but that would be my guess.

thx.

mcchin:

Yala I posted wrong area that's why got closed. Now I'm re-posting in the right area la.

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Added on October 4, 2007, 2:04 pmrainingzero:

You are partially correct. More accurately, 8600GTS cards come with 1ns RAM chips. 8600GT cards come with 2ns - 4ns RAM chips so their memory clock speed can't be pushed higher.

That's why you can overclock an 8600GT card to match performance of 8600GTS in terms of core speed but for memory speed there's still a limitation.

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Added on October 4, 2007, 2:05 pmtemptation1314:

When you buy a product and it disappoints you, don't you wanna share the knowledge with other consumers on a consumer group? That's what consumer groups are for mah.

This post has been edited by cyclonite: Oct 4 2007, 02:05 PM