EVGA GeForce 8800 GT DirectX 10 512-P3-N801-AR 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: One of the fastest cards on the market, and a decent price. You can buy a factory OC'd card for a few bucks more, but overclocking it is so easy, I suggest just getting the "normal" card and learning to do it yourself. It takes a single slot on the mobo, unlike some other recent cards which require two. I'm running it at stock speeds but will OC later. It's very easy to do this with a bios flash or registry editing. This card is VERY easy to OC. With a 7900 GTKO, I was pulling 24-40 FPS in WoW, and 25-30 FPS in NWN2. Now, I am pulling 35-60 FPS in WoW - TBC (Ironforge) and 55-60 FPS in NWN2 - no stutters.

Cons: It's long - about 11.5", so make sure you have room to fit the card in your system. Might need to replace the stock cooler if you're into heavy Ocing, as it seems a bit weak.

Overall Review: This is really a beautiful card, and my previous eVGA card is running smooth as silk (7900 GT KO). I put it in my girlfriend's Dell. Main reason for upgrade was some new DX10 MMOs being released soon (AoC, WAR), and to get a bit of a performance "facelift" for Adobe CS3. eVGA limited lifetime warranty sold me. Unless you put it in the microwave or solder something to the card, you can always turn it in (I exaggerate here slightly, but it's pretty durn close to that). With step-up, you literally are given technology insurance if the next "latest and greatest" comes in 90 days within purchase. eVGA is a great company with great products - and they are pretty attentive on CS. This is literally free money - if you choose to use it. If not, no loss. Win-win situation.

Pros: I would have to say that I am overly impressed with this product. It really does not take much of the 12V rail to get it going... or atleast it is similiar to that of a 7900gt I have tested in the same machine. The card is phenominal at overclocking... I don't think you understand. I am at 702 core with memory at 2240 Mhz. The frame rates are incredible and my card never broke 79 degress Celsius overclocked. Put the fan at 25% for near silent operation and overclock away!

Cons: None I can think of. It seems like it could hot overclocked if you don't have good airflow. But who in the hell should be overclocking if they didn't know better...

Overall Review: Get this... it's no joke. No giggles, no noise... this think just does serious business.

Pros: it works, its fast, its cheap. dont listen to anyone here who says this card has some heat issues. it does not.

Cons: none

Overall Review: use nvflash v5.57 to flash this card with the SSC bios and you will get 700mhz core / 1728mhz shaders / 1000mhz ram STABLE. it is the only way to get this card at these clock speeds and higher in a safe and stable way. you can download the SSC bios for this card at www.mvktech.net the file name for the bios you want is: EVGA.8800GT.SSC.PCIe.512MB.Rev.01 the SSC version of the evga 8800gt is THE EXACT SAME CARD as this card is. dont be scared to do it, your not going to damage or break anything. the command to flash this card using nvflash is: nvflash -5 -6 the_name_of_the_bios.rom after you flash the card with the SSC bios, be sure to change the fan speed. i would bump it up to +80%.

Pros: Price! As usual, I waited for a GT/GS like with the 6800 series and I was not disappointed. It has been pretty beneficial to wait until all major silicon pushers release the cheaper, smaller, faster, cooler, leaner stepping/process of any chip. The 8800GT has been no exception. Runs all my favs (all DX9 titles) at 1600x1200 no sweat, never drops below the 30 fps mark. Plays WoW, for whatever that is worth.

Cons: Gets very hot. Fan can be loud at high speed. As a single slot cooling solution, that is to be expected. It peaks at about 75C, so at 45C below the throttling, it's not to bad. Besides, my Zalman will dispatch that bottled heat shortly. As for the fan, I keep mine at 60%, which keeps it solidly at the temps above.

Overall Review: My system: Opteron 165 1.8 @ 2.6GHz, 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR400, DFI Lanparty UT NF4 SLI-D Expert, 8800GT. Still getting sub 10,000 marks in 3dMark 06, but whatever...I'm not rich. This card brought me to 9000-ish from a paltry 6000, so I'm pleased

Pros: Just purchased this video card and it runs every game at max settings 1680x1050 res. and smooth as can be. price is perfect for the performance

Cons: card runs HOT, and it's not because the card lacks a good fan. The problem is the fan is set to only go 30% for some reason by default. It's highly recommended you use NView or equivalent to change the settings on the card's fan. Mine went from a 70C full load to a 40C full load. Now I am unable to get the card to get hotter than 45C. You must change these settings or your card will not live very long!!!

Overall Review: the stock setting for the fan is rediculous, they should have noticed that before releasing it. If it wasn't for that setting I would have given it 5 stars.

Pros: Just picked up 2 of these suckers for SLI. They are crazy amazing!! Cards are big, but they are worth it for the performance it gives. Memory speed is a bit slower than the higher end models, but only causes about a 8% reduction in performance. My opinion just not worth the money, unless you are running at extremely high resolutions.

Cons: Big and loud power hungry beasts. Nvidia recommends a 450 watt power supply. That will work if you have nothing else to run. 600 watt minimum to have these in SLI, 450w will work fine for a single card.

Overall Review: Crysis is very pretty on high settings.

Pros: Runs amazingly from stepping up from my 7800gtx 256mb. Got it running at 702/1728/2000 right now and still more headroom. Got rid of stock heatsink and installed and arctic cooling accelero S2 and temps idling @ 31 and load @ 35-36!

Cons: ineffficient and loud stock heatsink doesn't satisfy the beast inside the G92 chip.

Overall Review: AMAZING, go get it now and overclock away!!!

Pros: I bought this card at full MSRP at release in 2007. I would say this card was worth it at that price and now at half that value (less with rebate and free shipping!), there is no excuse not to get high end graphics quality at a low end price. I now own 2 of these in SLI and I can safely say I have no fear against any game coming up. I stepped up my 8800GTS 320Mb to this and then bought my 2nd in July 2008. Remarkable, 70FPS in FEAR and COH at MAX settings at 1680x1050, Holding down over 90+ Average in Bioshock, Half Life 2 Ep 2 is a joke now, yet to try STALKER and Oblivion, but I'm sure they will bend to their might.

Cons: Crysis still spanks 2 of these in SLI. Partially due to my CPU becoming the limiting factor, now, the other half being it's Crysis. Do not let that deter you, though. Any other game (exception being World In Conflict, another system killer) will run at maximum settings.

Overall Review: Asus M2n-SLI Deluxe, AMD 64 X2 6000+, 2Gb DDR2 800MHz RAM, 200Gb HDD, Samsung Disc drive, OCZ Gamexstream 700W Power Supply, Antec 900 Case. 2x 8800GT SLI made by EVGA. Seriously, these 2 in SLI are benchmarking at the same level of the GTX 280 and 9800GX2. If you can go SLI, these are the two to do it with. EVGA is the best with step-up, waiting for rebate, see how smoothly that goes. They will give me an excuse to go Phenom soon :D EVGA, you guys rock!