Excellent mid-to-high end DX10 VGA solution-ELSA GLADIAC 860GT PH2 256B3
 

In April of 2007, NVIDIA launched 3 new products, GeForce 8600GTS/8600GT/8500GT,
not only to segment a different target market from 8800GTX/8800Ultra
but also take over the current market for GeForce 7900GS/7600GT/7300GT
In these months, mostly we can find the reviews of 8600GTS,
the top level of the series but it did not win much admire for
higher street price but common performance…
Let’s have a different main dish today, ELSA GLADIAC 860GT PH2,
the overclock version.
The standard frequency of NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT original design is
540/700MHz
The frequency of ELSA GLADIAC 860GT PH2 is 600/800MHz

Color Box
A sticker reads “Three years warranty”

Accessory

Product front look


Rear side of the product

APACK Fan System
With better cooling performance and lower noise

Components
All in SANYO solid capacitors and seal inductances

Interface
Dual-DVI / TV-Out Interface

Samsung -1.2ns GDDR3 memory


Test Equipment
CPU:INTEL Core 2 Duo E6700
MB: DFI DARK INFINITY NF650I ULTRA
DRAM:Mushkin Tuner XP Redline DDRII 1000
VGA:ELSA 860GT PH2 256B3 2DT RH
HD:Seagate 7200.10 320GB
POWER:Coolive AP-400F
Cooler:Thermaltake V1

CPU : 450X7=>3150Mhz
DARM : DDRII 1200 CL5 4-4-9 2T
VGA criterion
Standard 8600GT default : 540/700
ELSA 860GT PH2 OC default : 600/800
ELSA 860GT PH2 after OC : 625/1000

3DMARK2003
540/700

600/800

625/1000


3DMARK2005
540/700

600/800

625/1000


3DMARK2006
540/700

600/800

625/1000

Age Of Empires
Hardware setup :
DFI :1280X1024
Others are set up to the highest level criterion
540/700
Main select page :P. 44

600/800
Main select page :P. 47

625/1000
Main select page :P. 49


Need For Speed Carbon
Hardware setup :
DPI : 1280X1024
Detail value : high
Others are default value
540/700
Main select page :P. 37

600/800
Main select page :P. 41

625/1000
Main select page :P. 43


The main differences of 8600GT and 8600GTS are Core/Memory frequency,
PCB and independent power supply.
Because of these 2 models are in the same NVIDIA G84 technology, it is
possible to enable 8600GT the same performance as 8600GTS if in high
quality materials and critical fine-tune.
The key point is that 8600GT is much cheaper than 8600GTS…
At present time, 8600GTS is more expensive than 7900GS but the
performance is close to 7900GS
I think most people will not be convinced to have a 8600GTS…
On the contrary, it is reasonable for a high quality 8600GT to take over 7600
GT’s market even enabled high performance, close to 8600GTS and 7900GS.
I think 8600GT is enabled much more C/P value than 8600GTS and 8500GT.
ELSA GLADIAC 860GT PH2 is equipped with high quality cooling system and
GDDR3 Memory, the common component applied on 8600GTS, and enabled OC
performance but the street price is only about USD$ 10 higher than other
competitors.
It enhanced ELSA GLADIAC 860GT PH2 more competitive in mid level VGA market :)

Calling 8600GT high end is being too optimistic ;)