Introduction

2006 was the year of Nvidia. Straight off the back of their 7950GX2 release - an awesome card in itself - came the jaw dropping performance of their latest incarnations, the 8800GTX and GTS. Today I have with me Gainward's rendition of the 8800GTX; lets see if this card is all its hyped up to be.

A little about 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."

NB. Blurb taken from the Gainward website.

Specifications

NB. Specs. taken from Gainward's website.

Gainward's Tak on the 8800GTX

BLISS 8800GTX 768 TV DD is powered by NVIDIA´s® GeForce™ 8800GTX GPU integrating 768MB/384bits High-Speed DD3 memory, offering a mindblowing experience for all 3D enthusiast who think they have seen it all. Never before have 3D rendering experiences appeared as life-like as with the next generation GPU architecture from NVIDIA®. Vivid ultra realistic rendering of 3D projects and enviroments in the highest resolutions without suffering any loss of it´s kick-ass performance, makes BLISS8800GTX from Gainward the only choice for hardcore gamers. Reference clocksettings for the BLISS8800GTX is a core clock of 575MHz and a memory clock of 1800Mhz, though these already impressive settings have been pushed to an incredible 620+MHz on the core and 1900+MHz on the memory and has more to give under the right circumstances! This card will rock your world and forever change your view of 3D graphics

The GeForce® 8800GTX graphics processor unit (GPU) delivers such a vast amount of performance that none of the available processors (CPU´s) on the market are able to keep up with it; thus guaranteeing an extraordinary performance today and tomorrow for future applications and operative systems like Microsoft Windows Vista.