XFX GeForce 8800 GTX SLI Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews

Iria · Dec 20, 2006, 05:26 PM

Review: Legit Reviews // Be sure to check out DH's review here
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The launch of the latest flagship 8800 GTX has many drooling at incredible frame rates the card provides in today's games and the future DirectX 10 prowess the card promises. When the GeForce 8800 GTX was released in November we had one card available to benchmark and found that it was the fastest card around. The very next day LR publied an editorial that showed a few benchmarks on a $4,000+ dream machine with a pair of XFX 8800 GTX graphics card running SLI. It was in this review we showed that a pair of 8800 GTX graphics cards would destroy ATI's X1950 XTX Crossfire setup in games like F.E.A.R. and Quake 4, but was limited by BIOS issues as quad-core processors wouldn't work on the NVIDIA 680i SLI motherboard. A few days later an article on the 8800 GTX resistor change was published, which found that many enthusiasts had video cards that needed to be RMA'd. Last month we were benchmarking a system with BIOS issues uses cards that were fixed by hand on older drivers. Today we are taking a look at what kind of performance you can expect to get from 2 of these bad boys linked together using an older AMD Socket 939 platform, which is something more along the lines of what people are running.

Dec 20, 2006, 05:26 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 87	XFX GeForce 8800 GTX SLI Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Review: Legit Reviews // Be sure to check out DH's review here ___________ The launch of the latest flagship 8800 GTX has many drooling at incredible frame rates the card provides in today's games and the future DirectX 10 prowess the card promises. When the GeForce 8800 GTX was released in November we had one card available to benchmark and found that it was the fastest card around. The very next day LR publied an editorial that showed a few benchmarks on a $4,000+ dream machine with a pair of XFX 8800 GTX graphics card running SLI. It was in this review we showed that a pair of 8800 GTX graphics cards would destroy ATI's X1950 XTX Crossfire setup in games like F.E.A.R. and Quake 4, but was limited by BIOS issues as quad-core processors wouldn't work on the NVIDIA 680i SLI motherboard. A few days later an article on the 8800 GTX resistor change was published, which found that many enthusiasts had video cards that needed to be RMA'd. Last month we were benchmarking a system with BIOS issues uses cards that were fixed by hand on older drivers. Today we are taking a look at what kind of performance you can expect to get from 2 of these bad boys linked together using an older AMD Socket 939 platform, which is something more along the lines of what people are running.