EXUS.net reviews ECS N8800GT-512MX DT and Palit 8800GT 512MB Sonic video cards
The GeForce 8800 GT SKU is no stranger to us here at HEXUS, and as our previous reviews have shown we were quite fond of the performance/price powerhouse when it was competing as a high-end solution, selling for £150+.
But time has passed, and following the launch of NVIDIA's 9-series parts the 8800 GT has been repositioned to the mainstream market, competing for your hard-earned cash against its old rival, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 and its newer in-house competitor, the GeForce 9600 GT
Our previous 8800 GT reviews have looked at the cards in the context of a high-end solution, with the benchmarks and comparisons tailored to test their suitability for the most demanding tasks in a high-end PC. In comparison, our mainstream reviews have a less taxing suite of benchmarks, and are tested on a system more appropriately configured for a mid-level PC.
As such, to allow for an apples-to-apples comparison between the 8800 GT and its new-price rivals, we will be testing two pre-overclocked cards; a passively-cooled solution from ECS and an actively-cooled card from Palit, as well as running reference 8800 GT clocks. The premise here is to see how the 8800 GT fares as a mainstream card...
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