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10 Geforce 8800 GTS 320Mb Video Cards Compared

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2007-04-30

We continue our Geforce 8800 320Mb tests with the additional of models from Asus, Albatron, Leadtek and the TEC cooled Calibre, comparing gaming performance, overclocking potential and cooling capability with the previous tested cards. This roundup will help you decide what card to get; read on if you´re in the market for a higher end VGA upgrade.

ASUS EN8800GTS 320MB: Inside the box

Inside the box

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ASUS EN8800GTS 320Mb

DVI -> VGA connector

4-pin molex -> 6-pin PCIe power cable

HDTV cable

PC game: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

PC game: RACE

Futuremark 3D Mark 2006 with pro-key

ASUS CD holder

Driver CD and manual

Specifications

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NVIDIA 90nm G80 core
- core clock: 500MHz
- shader clock: 1200MHz

Hynix 320Mb (10x32Mb) GDDR3 with 320 bit interface
- memory clock: 1600MHz

NVIDIA A01 PCB

NVIDIA reference active heatpipe cooler, dual slot solution

Dual Link DVI

Integrated HDTV decoder

HDTV/S-Video/Composite - out

SLI ready

PCI-Express 16x

Dimensions: 23cm x 11cm

Rivatuner monitoring showed us the real GPU core clock was a bit above rated (513MHz), while the memory is also clocked @ 792MHz (1584MHz DDR).

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Comment from Sidney @ 2007/04/30

Nicely done review

Comment from sandstorm @ 2007/05/02

yes idd, great stuff!

I'm anciously awaiting a 8800GTX with a fanless design cooler. I know it's asking a lot but there are vga-coolers out there that are up for the challenge if you ask me. Placing one for myselfs is out of the question, I don't want to wreck a 500 euro graphicscard and lose my warranty.

Keep up the good reviewing!

Comment from jmke @ 2007/05/03

HR-03 Plus should be able to do the job if you have decent case cooling

Comment from jim8 @ 2007/12/18

OK........I have the Albatron 8800 gts 320mb that you guys tested, and I see that nobody is testing any card with the new Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Why is that??? I mean....everyone says that this game is quite heavy...and with the albatron card, this game (I watched the game's frame rate counter) gave me 2 to 5 frames on some missions with intense environments (1280x1024 and low in game settings). With less intense environments, and with low settings on the Nvidia control panel, it reached 25 "maybe" 30 fps max, and that happened "sometimes". And I'm using the new Beta drivers from Nvidia 169.17. With those drivers, the same "tough" mission got a maximum of 10 frames. I tampered with the nvidia control panel and pushed up the AA and Anisotropic filters, and the filters of the game, and the frames average between 6 and 13-14. Is that normal??? or am I doing something wrong??? or could it be because of the monitor??? (lol)....I'm planing to play around with the overclocking and see what frames I'll get......is it possible for you to run a test with the FSX and see what numbers you can get????

my system:
Gigabyte GA 965P-S3 (Rev. 3.3) mainboard
Intel Pentium 4, (540) 3.2 Ghz 800 FSB
2 GB memory, 667MHz
HD 500 GB sata II westernd digital
LG 1735 17" TFT VGA monitor

Comment from Rutar @ 2007/12/18

I wonder how long it takes until you find Madshrimps in the excyclopedia when you look under "roundup" =P

Comment from jmke @ 2007/12/18

This test was finished back in June, the cards are no longer in our possession :/

Comment from geoffrey @ 2007/12/18

Quote:

Originally Posted by jim8

OK........I have the Albatron 8800 gts 320mb that you guys tested, and I see that nobody is testing any card with the new Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Why is that??? I mean....everyone says that this game is quite heavy...and with the albatron card, this game (I watched the game's frame rate counter) gave me 2 to 5 frames on some missions with intense environments (1280x1024 and low in game settings). With less intense environments, and with low settings on the Nvidia control panel, it reached 25 "maybe" 30 fps max, and that happened "sometimes". And I'm using the new Beta drivers from Nvidia 169.17. With those drivers, the same "tough" mission got a maximum of 10 frames. I tampered with the nvidia control panel and pushed up the AA and Anisotropic filters, and the filters of the game, and the frames average between 6 and 13-14. Is that normal??? or am I doing something wrong??? or could it be because of the monitor??? (lol)....I'm planing to play around with the overclocking and see what frames I'll get......is it possible for you to run a test with the FSX and see what numbers you can get????

my system:
Gigabyte GA 945P-S3 (Rev. 3.3) mainboard
Intel Pentium 4, (540) 3.2 Ghz 800 FSB
2 GB memory
HD 500 GB sataII westernd digital
LG 1735 17" TFT monitor, VGA only........lol, no DVI input

I don't own that game, and besides that it would take just too long for me to test every card in every available game. Therefore we test only the most popular games, or those that make most sense. Concerning your setup, that Pentium 4 540 is not really the fastest CPU those days, maybe you gain some performance when pushing it past 4GHz, I'm quite sure your CPU can do that air cooled.

Comment from jim8 @ 2007/12/19

hhhmmm yes!!!!!........I've been told that before....about the Pentium 4, and I was suggested a Core 2 duo, prefferably one with more than 2GHz. could it be the cpu that limits the frames after all???..........I've tried lower rezolusions too and didn't have any improvement on the frames.........as if something is blocking the card from giving more frames. But anyway, do you know if fsx is actualy that heavy??? .....I've read some reviews of the game and they said that it's for next generation cards.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/12/19

FSX is a huge resource hog, it will require a lot of RAM, raw CPU power and high end VGA card to run half decent, running it under Vista will further degrade performance;

Comment from jim8 @ 2007/12/19

Daaaaaaaammmnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

Comment from jim8 @ 2007/12/22

hey hey hey.........guess what..........overclocking solved my problems eventualy.......even with no overclocking of the CPU, a small overclocking of the GPU and memory, with RivaTuner, to run from 513/1188/792 to 540/1242/810 gave me at least a playable frame rate (7 to 10 fps minimum on "heavy" scinery conditions). Your overclocking guide was most helpful, thanks

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