XFX

When we originally reviewed the 8800 Series from Nvidia the brand of card we reviewed was the XFX card and now that we have the opportunity to look at SLI it seemed a good time to revisit the brand. All of our comments regarding the product still stand. The packaging features a great deal of information on the product and the bundled extras cover the essentials however there are no free games or joy-pads here.

The card itself obviously hasn’t changed and follows the reference design with Dual DVI’s capable of 2560x1600 and featuring a 384bit memory bus. As with the other reference design cards the bandwidth of the card is 86.4GB/s.

Overclocking

When we first looked at the XFX branded GTX back in November we found the maximum overclock to be 630 Mhz/980Mhz which is slightly on the low side for a retail GTX. When checking for the maximum overclock on the cards we received for this review we started at this same point and found that again the XFX brand were completely stable at these settings. Bumping up the speeds slowly we found that these particular samples were able to reach a slightly higher speed of 650Mhz core and 1000Mhz memory, the highest in today’s review.