Midrange Graphics Card Round Up

Gainward 8800 GTS Golden Sample ‘Goes Like Hell’

Once again a familiar style of packaging from Gainward and on this particular box we have information on the amount of memory as well as the sticker which informs us the card is a Golden Sample ‘Goes Like Hell’ edition. Inside the box we have a bundle which is near identical to the 9600 GT with the addition of a DVI to HDMI adapter.

This is another of Gainwards cards to use a casing around the cooler and this makes it look quite similar to the 9800 range and just like those cards there is plenty of airflow in and out of the casing. The copper CPU block contained within the unit connects to two heat pipes which are also copper and these heatpipes finally pass on to the heatsink fins which are aluminium. This particular model features 1024mb of DDR3 and a 256bit bus. As the product name suggests as well as having more memory than normal the card is also a factory overclocked model so instead of having the standard 650 core 1625 shader and 970MHz memory we have 730/1825/1050.