Introduction

Yes that’s right, another 8600GT review from XSReviews; this time it’s a Gainward. Featuring a large and interesting cooling solution, will Gainward’s card be our favourite 8600 so far? Read on to find out.

About Gainward

Who is Gainward?

Gainward is a world leading producer of High-quality, High-End 3D accelerators for the Personal Computer market. Gainwards offers a full product line of value adding products targeting gaming enthusiasts as well as entry-level consumers.

Being part of a big family…

Has its disadvantages but at Gainward we like to focus on the great advantages we benefit from being a member of Palit Microsystem Inc family. Our China factory which was established 1992 has a capacity of producing 1200K products per month., combined with a well structured and organized RD and purchasing departments allows us to keep on producing and resenting a full range of High-quality inovative products.

Our Mission

• Is to produce graphic cards with value added features to create a surplus for our customers.
• Use our knowledge that we have gathered throughout the years to produce hard- and software with superior quality.
• At Gainward we work with energy, passion and a great respect for individual market requests.

Features

• NVIDIA®unified architecture with Giga Thread™ technology
• Full Microsoft® DirectX10® Shader Model 4.0 support
• NVIDIA® SLI™]Ready
• 16x full]screen anti�]aliasing
• True 128]bit floating point high dynamic]range (HDR) lightning
• NVIDIA® Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology
• Two Dual link DVI outputs support two 2560×1600 resolution displays
• NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
• HDCP Capable » PCI Express® support
• OpenGL® support
• NVIDIA® ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™

Specifications