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Author: Whoopty | ||
| Posted: 23:00, April 18th 2007 | |||
| Link: http://msicomputer.co.uk/ | |||
| Score: 10 out of 10 [?] | |||
| Price: £180 | |||
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Conclusion
The performance gained from adding a second of these cards is clearly pretty impressive. These cards scale extremely well when moving to SLI from a single overclocked card. The 8800 series still retains the performance crown, but the 8600s together nip on the heels of the GTS 320s and completely dominate the x1950 series of cards from ATI/AMD.
The fact that SLI performance on these cards is so good means that those with small cases can have near 8800 performance without space problems, those who want DX10 support can get it relatively cheaply with a worthwhile upgrade solution of another card down the line and those who want near 8800 performance with a passive card can now do so.
| Pros | Cons |
| Performance scales well | Same problems as single 8600GT |
| Overclocks well | |
| Passive cooling |
I'd like to thank MSI and QuietPC for providing us with these graphics cards.
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