Review: Galaxy 8800 GTS 512 MB (G92) OEM


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Cost/Reason:

I paid $268 (CDN) from NCIX after the mail-in-rebate. I debated buying an 8800 GT and getting an Accelero S1 but this was almost the same price so I went ahead with the GTS hoping the extra Shaders would help gaming at 1920x1200 and the GTS cooler would be quiet.

Box Contents:

It came in a plain white box and comes with an s-video cable, s-video to component, 4-pin molex to 6-pin PCI-E adapter and one DVI-to-VGA adapter. Some CD didn't bother looking at.

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Noise:

To my pleasant surprise, the card is very quiet. When the computer is first turned on, the fan maxes out to a fast wooshing noise however after that it throttles so that its inaudible. My previous video card was a passive 8600 GT, and this 8800 GTS stock cooler is almost as quiet when the computer at my feet under the desk. I consider myself picky about a quiet system and this stock cooler exceeded my expectations in terms of noise.

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Temperature:

The card seems to idle around 57 degrees, which I think is pretty good considering my case temperature is pretty high since I have 2 intake and 1 exhaust 120 mm fans going at really low RPMs. After gaming awhile, I think the temperature hits around 80 deg but the fan is still at low speed I believe. My Lian-Li V1100+ case has an exhaust fan over the video card so that probably helps the temperature a bit.

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Conclusion (thus far):

It was definitely good for the money and considering I like to play at 1920x1200 if possible in games. Its a no frills card, looking very much like an nVidia OEM card that I guess Galaxy resells. I haven't tried overclocking, I probably will later. However I won't sacrifice quietness of the fan for more FPS until I find a game that really needs more power. So far, I've only played Team Fortress 2 and it plays quite well with all the eye candy turned on.

  • 4 weeks later...

I just benched mine. Mine is an Asus 8800GTS G92 TOP, the fastest 8800GTS G92 available. Test platform: E6300 @ 2.8, 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-8500, Asus P5K-Deluxe.

These are just some rough and dirty benchmarks, it doesn't look too right to me since it's just barely ahead of the Asus 8800GT TOP (The fastest 8800GT in the market) but for everyone's interest...

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I just benched mine. Mine is an Asus 8800GTS G92 TOP, the fastest 8800GTS G92 available. Test platform: E6300 @ 2.8, 2GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-8500, Asus P5K-Deluxe.

These are just some rough and dirty benchmarks, it doesn't look too right to me since it's just barely ahead of the Asus 8800GT TOP (The fastest 8800GT in the market) but for everyone's interest...

lol I slightly beaten your 8800GTS-G92, E6300-2.8, DDR2-8500, P5K-Dx with a 8800GT 700/1800, E4500-3.2, Old OCZ Gold DDR2-700Mhz, P5N32-E SLI PLUS.........

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4759833

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