With their 8800GT, nVidia decided to make 512MB RAM as the default probably not wanting to compete with the higher priced 8800GTX with its 768MB RAM. However, with textures getting larger and more complex in games, higher amount of RAM on your VGA card can help. ASUS thus decided to take matters In their own [...]

ASUS is a company which has been catering to the enthusiast computer component market for longer than most of us can remember but at the same time they have a presence in nearly every other area of the computer market as well. From laptops to monitors and from barebones units to high-performance motherboards, they have [...]

Every now and again a product comes along that seems to defy reason. Either it offers performance at levels far greater than similar products in its class or it is offered at a price lower than you would expect. Never have I seen a time where both of these circumstances happened at the same time [...]

When looking for a video card there are several types of users. There are the people that look only at the price, the intermediate gamer that wants the high-end cards, but has to settle somewhere in the middle and finally, the all-out ‘must have the latest and greatest’ card on the planet, regardless of cost. [...]

. We are living in perhaps the most exciting time in recent history for PC graphics. What’s particularly striking about this latest flurry of excitement is that it isn’t tied to a new standard in performance set by high-end “halo” cards that few enthusiasts can actually afford. Instead, it’s being driven at an almost grassroots [...]

Today we are finally going to settle the score between the GeForce 8800 GT and the Radeon HD 3870. The battle between these two affordable high-end graphics cards began roughly 2 months ago now when AMD released the Radeon HD 3870, which can now be had at the bargain basement price of $250 US. Priced [...]

It’s been more than a year since the first DirectX 10 graphics accelerator, containing the revolutionary G80, was presented to the public. Everyone should remember the delight it brought and the incredible performance which left all high-end competition in the dust. This time, we have a graphics card with the G92 chip on it, but [...]

Our test lab examined three graphics cards from BFG, Forsa, and ZOTAC. Running a few steps forward, we can tell you that they are all practically identical (reference cards). They differ only in operating frequencies. And the ZOTAC product has a different cooler. With return of the 256bit bus, we can see the old design [...]

For the past two years the midrange market in the video card industry has had some ups and downs.  Products like the Radeon X1950 Pro helped redefine the area, but with the advent of DX10 and the introduction of the 8600 GTS and HD 2600 XT, the upper midrange has suffered somewhat.  Products such as [...]

High performance at a reasonable price is a balance which both ATI and NVIDIA strive to achieve in the lucrative mainstream market and today is the release of NVIDIA’s new 512MB 8800 GT, priced around the £160/$250 mark. We have four cards on our test bench for this review supplied by Asus, MSI, XFX and [...]

Moore’s Law demands it, enthusiasts speculate about it and the head honchos at NVIDIA are probably rubbing their hands in anticipation at the prospects of world domination. In case you haven’t guessed, the next evolution in the GeForce 8 series is set to be unleashed today and this new arrival has been predictably dubbed the [...]

ASUS GeForce 8800 GT TOP 512MB PCI-E, Gainward Bliss GeForce 8800 GT Golden Sample 1024MB PCI-E, Galaxy GeForce 8800 GT 512MB PCI-E, Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT Zalman Edition 512MB PCI-E, Leadtek GeForce 8800 GT ZL 512MB PCI-E, MSI GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB PCI-E, Palit GeForce 8800 GT Sonic 512MB PCI-E Time goes on, and [...]