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XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX 256MB PCIe Product Details

XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX Video Card
Redefine your gaming reality with the XFX GeForce® 8600 GT XXX 256MB PCI Express 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. Crank up 16x full-screen anti-aliasing without missing a beat - no jaggies, no worries. And relax watching your favorite movies with NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology.

It's All About The "O"
The moniker “XXX Edition” indicates that this video card is very highly factory overclocked. XFX has taken the GeForce 8600 GT GPU and equipped it with 256 MB of GDDR3, increased the GPU core speed from 540 MHz to 620 MHz, and increased the memory frequency from 1.4 GHz (700 MHz actual) to 1.6 GHz (800 MHz actual).


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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.

ESSENTIAL SPECS:
• Interface Type: PCI Express x16
• Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
• Video Memory: 256MB GDDR3



NVIDIA Unified
Architecture

NVIDIA
Lumenex™ Engine

Microsoft DirectX 10
Geometry Shaders

Shader Model 4.0
Technology

Features

  • NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
    NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 series graphics processing units (GPUs) redefine the PC gaming experience. With a revolutionary unified architecture and full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10 games, GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film quality game effects.
  • 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 »
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • OpenGL 2.0 Optimizations and Support
    Ensures top-Notch compatiblity and performance for OpenGL applications
  • GigaThread™ Technology
    Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.

NVIDIA ForceWare
It takes a powerful suite of software to complement these complex processors. NVIDIA ForceWare™ unified software environment (USE) is the key to unleashing the full power and features in NVIDIA’s desktop, platform, mobile, and multimedia products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare ensures the best out-of-box experience for every user and delivers.

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.

Windows Vista Ready
Windows Vista is the first operating system to require a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to realize the best experience possible.
PCI Express Support
PCI Express is a new Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

A Closer Look







Minimum System Requirements

  • Intel® or AMD® compatible motherboard
  • At least 512MB system RAM
  • PCI Express® compliant motherboard
  • A minimum 300W system power supply
  • 50MB of available hard disk space
  • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP or Vista
  • VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor


What's Included


  • XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX 256MB PCIe Video card
  • Quick Install Guide
  • Drivers CD
  • S-Video Cable
  • DVI to VGA Adapter

Specifications

Connections
Interface Type PCI Express
Interface Speed x16
Connector(s) Dual DVI (Dual Link)
  HDTV/S-Video
Multiple Monitors Support Yes
Performance
GPU/VPU NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
Maximum Resolution 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
Additional Features RoHS Compliant
  HDTV Ready
  SLI Ready
  OpenGL 2.0
  DirectX 10
Memory
Memory Type GDDR3
Memory Interface 128-bit
Video Memory 256MB
Stream Processors 32
Core Clock 620 MHz
Memory Clock 1600 MHz
Shader Clock 1355 MHz
Memory Bandwidth 22.4GB/sec.

Customer Reviews

4.7 (241 customer reviews)

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Value
 4.9
Features
 4.7
Quality
 4.6
Performance
 4.6
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Reviewer:
bluedude
Date:
Jun 29, 2011

I went from integrated geforce6100 video and palyed CSS (counter strike source) at 35.4 FPS (frames per-secound) after installing this card The FPS went to 127.22 FPS and with my 19'' lcd screen it looks awsome plus the screen shots they show of the game CoH is exactly like the ones above crisp,clear AWSOME!!

Overall
2.8
Value
 4.0
Features
 4.0
Quality
 1.0
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 2.0
Reviewer:
moe
Date:
Nov 05, 2010
meh

had for about 6 months then it just blew up, out of no where. replacing it with a gtx 460

Overall
5.0
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 5.0
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 5.0
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 5.0
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 5.0
Reviewer:
Tony
Date:
Feb 16, 2009

Great for the price, had owned this for 6 months now and plays all I have thrown in it so far (left4dead, tomb raider underworld, far cry 2, fear, call duty 4 and 5, stalker shadows chernobyl and clear sky, crysis and crysis warhead, fallout 3, etc.) not looking for max settings but for game playability with reasonable resolutions, enough to enjoy each game. Not noisy, must have got the newer fan version. Had to improve air circulation (added side and front fans on CPU case and direct cooling fans on adjacent PCI slot). Very happy with board ... next upgrade will be some 9XXX series from XFX, preferently XXX mode (factory overclocked).

Overall
1.8
Value
 3.0
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 2.0
Quality
 1.0
Performance
 1.0
Reviewer:
Anonymous
Date:
Oct 09, 2008

I love the fact that someone can sell a sub par card to someone else knowing that there are problems with it in SLI, it flickers in a ton of games depending on the drivers that you use drivers will work for one game and not another and vise versa and for the load fans they sill run hot i shulod haved saved my money and get 8800gtx ultra i suggest you do the same.

Overall
4.8
Value
 5.0
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 4.0
Quality
 5.0
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Reviewer:
ratman
Date:
Sep 20, 2008

think this might help some people out there who might still be having trouble with the loud fan. If you take a close look at the number of blades your fan has, if it has many (ie, 15) rectangle shaped blades rather than 10 larger curved fan blades, you most likely have gotten an earlier revision of the card and thus louder since the many bladed fan uses the old 7600gt fan

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    Warranty provided by: XFX
    Limited Warranty: This product has a Lifetime Limited Warranty.
    Mfg Part No: PVT84JUDD3
    UPC No: 778656043886
    Box Size: ( Length: 8, Width: 3, Depth: 11 )
    Shipping Weight: 0.4500 pound(s)
    Dimensional Weight: 2 pounds

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