If you have been waiting for NVIDIA to release a cheap, mid-range DirectX 10 graphics card, you need wait no longer. The new NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS offers not only the same unified shader technology and DirectX 10 support, it also comes with a spanking new video processor that can completely take over H.264 decoding. Join us as we take a look at one of the first GeForce 8600 GTS cards to hit the market - the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. Based entirely on the reference card, this card is representative of the other GeForce 8600 GTS cards in the market. Link : Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS Graphics Card Review
Cool card, but I prefer for the card to be priced around below RM400 to be the best value. Seen an 8600GT with DDRII - RM399.
The price should drop after a while. USD 200 might be a little too optimistic, although I suppose they were counting on the new video processor and DirectX 10 support to help sell it.
Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS Graphics Card Review Rev. 2.0 If you have been waiting for NVIDIA to release a cheap, mid-range DirectX 10 graphics card, you need wait no longer. The new NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS offers not only the same unified shader technology and DirectX 10 support, it also comes with a spanking new video processor that can completely take over H.264 decoding. Today, we revisit our review of the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. We redid all the benchmarks at higher resolutions with the latest NVIDIA driver, and added the new DirectX 10 Company Of Heroes benchmark to the list. This will give us a better gauge of its performance with larger monitors that are becoming particularly common as well as an examination of the GeForce 8600 GTS' DirectX 10 capabilities. Join us as we take a look at one of the first GeForce 8600 GTS cards to hit the market - the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. Based entirely on the reference card, this card is representative of the other GeForce 8600 GTS cards in the market. Link : Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS Graphics Card Review Rev. 2.0
Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS Graphics Card Review Rev. 3.0 If you have been waiting for NVIDIA to release a cheap, mid-range DirectX 10 graphics card, you need wait no longer. The new NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS offers not only the same unified shader technology and DirectX 10 support, it also comes with a spanking new video processor that can completely take over H.264 decoding. Today, we revisit our review of the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. We retested with the latest Windows Vista driver and along with some new DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 games. This will give us a better gauge of its performance with larger monitors that are becoming particularly common as well as an examination of the GeForce 8600 GTS' DirectX 10 capabilities. Join us as we take a look at one of the first GeForce 8600 GTS cards to hit the market - the Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS. Based entirely on the reference card, this card is representative of the other GeForce 8600 GTS cards in the market. Link : Sparkle GeForce 8600 GTS Graphics Card Review Rev. 3.0
