EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 Technical Details

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 Description

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS Video Card
Redefine your gaming reality with the EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCI Express 2.0 graphics card featuring the world's first DirectX 10 GPU and a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life gaming experience. Power through games at record speeds and charge through game maps with vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting effects while steering clear of mind-blowing physics effects such as explosions, fire, and smoke. And when you're not destroying the enemy, relax watching your favorite movies with second generation NVIDIA PureVideo technology.

Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology is a revolutionary approach to scalability and increased performance. NVIDIA SLI takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express bus architecture, and features hardware and software innovations within NVIDIA GPUs (graphics processing units) and NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs (media and communications processors). Together the NVIDIA SLI patent-pending technologies work seamlessly to deliver heart-pounding PC performance. And depending on the application, NVIDIA SLI can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences.

NVIDIA Unified Architecture Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering an incredibly true-to-life 3D graphics. } click here for demo

NVIDIA Lumenex Engine Support for 128-bit and 64-bit floating point HDR with up to 16x anti-aliasing delivering vividly realistic lighting effects while obliterating ‘jaggies'. } click here for demo

Microsoft DirectX 10 Geometry Shaders Dynamic geometry creation smoothes surfaces and enables incredibly detailed environments, shadows, and effects. } click here for demo

NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation deliver amazing performance and visual effects such as smoke, fire, and explosions. } click here for demo

Shader Model 4.0 Technology Get your box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast shader performance and watch your characters sweat with Shader Model 4.0.

NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) High dynamic-range(HDR) lighting effects bring environments to life for a truly immersive experience. It takes advantage of the subtle light, texture, and color intricacies to create incredibly realistic environments.

Blu-Ray and HD DVD Support Features hardware HD video processing and HDMI with built-in 5.1 surround audio, delivers sharp images and vibrant color fidelity from 1080p playback of Blu-ray and HD DVDs movies.

Windows Vista Certified Have confidence that Certified for Windows Vista products will provide superior experiences with your videos running the Windows Vista operating system.That's because only Certified for Windows Vista devices have undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease-of-use, better performance and enhanced security.

PCI Express 2.0 Support PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance boost to 5 GT/s is by far the most important feature of the PCI Express 2.0 specifications. It effectively increases the aggregate bandwidth of a 16-lane link to approximately 16 GB/s. The higher bandwidth will allow product designers to implement narrower interconnect links to achieve high performance. (backwards compatible with PCI Express)

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 Reviews

REVIEW BY: Reviewed Nov 16, 2008

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 card is a screamer. Fallout 3 on ultra only lags around tons of water and I think thats a graphic program problem, not a card problem. Runs everything else I have at max without overclocking. Would have bought 2 of these but that would have put my budget game rig over budget, and truthfully, I don't really think I'll need a second card for a while. Beware though EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 card is a monster. It fit but I could see certain motherboards having issues with sata ports/memory access blocked. I am running the MSI K92n Platinum and it fits on the board no problem.

REVIEW BY: Jake Reviewed Aug 10, 2008

Over all this is an excellant price for a highend Video Card. Not that happy about some of the perfomance in Crysis on DX10, but in DX9 the FPS is 40 to 50 on My custom maps. I was expecting a really huge improvement going from the 8600GTS to this Card, but I guess I cant complain. If you want really good perfomance in Crysis this will do just fine, but at the Price I would get 2 of these and SLI them together. Any other games except Crysis will play on MAX settings with well over 100 FPS on most.

REVIEW BY: Brave Sir Reviewed Sep 30, 2008

I upgraded from 2 8600 GTSs in SLi to 2 of these bad boys. My 3DMark06 score went from 12,000 on a good day to 14,600. My Vista Experience score went from 5.7 to 5.9. Crysis defaults to High. Stays at 40c with fans at 60% and maxes out at 60c under load in an Antec 900 case with 5 case fans. These things are HUGE! I am slightly OCing to 720/1800/1100 with Rivatuner. these cards were north of 300 samoleams in March of 08. For those who care; Q6600 OC'd to 2.9, 4 gig Corsair @ 4-4-4-12 850 Mhz, 2 Striped Raptors, EVGA 680 mobo, BFG 680 watt PSU, 24'' NEC LCD

REVIEW BY: lolumad Reviewed Mar 31, 2008

i upgraded from dual 7300 gt by xfx. this card lets me play crysis on high. in some maps i can put on 16x aa without losing fps. i get about 23. my processor is pretty bad and thats why. its a pentium d 925

REVIEW BY: . Reviewed Apr 07, 2008

8800 gts 512mb 20% OC (785 MHz core clock and can go more)!!! This card is blazing fast. I couldnt be happier about this purchase. I upped the fan to 60% and it runs cool at 60 deg C. My computer runs faster, tv and DVDs look and run better, and I can play crysis on all high settings at an about 30 fps (800x1280 resolution no filters). Most of crysis is playable 20+ fps on very high directX 10 (Believe me its worth the cut in fps, it looks amazing). Call of duty 4 maxed out everything 100+ fps, HL2 episode 2 maxed out 100+ fps. This card is just as fast, maybe faster with OC, than the 9800GTX which is 100 dollars more. If you dont believe me go read the real reviews. I have a quad core 2.4 GHz, 2 gig ram, vista 32-bit, 600 Watt psu. :)

Buy EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0

Now Just $179.99 EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 - 512MB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, Video Card 512-P3-N841-AR

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB PCIe 2.0 Pictures