EVGA e-GeForce 8600 GTS (PCI-e, 256MB)

• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 11 reviews
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• 6 stars

  First+only mainstream DX10 card, but the price doesn't match the performance, atleast in DX9 games.

  by sticu on June 5, 2007

  Pros: Affordable DX10 support graphic card that shows promises in the future

  Cons: 128 bit and only 32 pipelines cause major decrease in performance compared to other high-end cards

  Summary: With the price below $200, 8600 GTS is an affordable card with more promises in DX10 world. But in DX9 world, this card just dont have much appeals over high-end ...

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  Summary: With the price below $200, 8600 GTS is an affordable card with more promises in DX10 world. But in DX9 world, this card just dont have much appeals over high-end to mainstream cards of the old generation.
  
  The driver is still somewhat buggy and for some games such as World of Warcraft, this card will lagg behind 7900GS and even to 7600GS. Although in some other games 8600GTS will do perform better then 7900GS.
  
  This card will not be an upgrade for most people with decend card but for those who are buying a brand new computer in budget, this card does holds some promises.
  
  My recommendation is to buy 8800GTS which costs around $300 with 320 bits and 96 pipelines. It performs atleast three time better then 8600

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• 5 stars

  Great performance until the capacitors fail

  by gnhoss on April 18, 2009

  Pros: Great gaming performance, especially in SLI mode.

  Cons: Cheap capacitors (Sacon FZ series) exploded on both cards less than two years after purchase. I don't overclock and am a very intermittent gamer (once or twice a month for a few hours).

  Summary: I love the features and performance of this card but I think it's better to look for high-quality manufacturer to avoid the hassle of swapping out capacitors (or video ...

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  Summary: I love the features and performance of this card but I think it's better to look for high-quality manufacturer to avoid the hassle of swapping out capacitors (or video cards for most of us) less than a year after the warranty expires. To their credit, eVGA replaced the first blown card even though it was a few months out of warranty. They refused to replace the second card when it failed just two months after the first. The RMA replacement card has better caps.
  
  I'm beginning to wish I hadn't gone with an SLI board and wondering when its caps will begin to fail too--it's also eVGA brand, but using different (hopefully better) capacitors.

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• 7 stars

  ok for value but there is hope

  by samjohn219 on June 22, 2008

  Pros: good for next gen games

  Cons: iffy on higher end games

  Summary: the biggest test of this card was playing crysis.
  Pros- it never crashed on me, i was able to keep all settings on high except shadows and anti-ailiasing. It plays
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  Summary: the biggest test of this card was playing crysis.
  Pros- it never crashed on me, i was able to keep all settings on high except shadows and anti-ailiasing. It plays pretty smooth.
  
  Cons- I wasnt able to turn on any anti-aliasing at all. to me the shadows are what makes it look real good, but that slows it down a bit.
  
  I did a little research on the DirectX 10 which this card is compatible with and i found out that DX10 significantly improves the performance of any card that supports it. When the memory on the card is full, DX10 spills on over to system RAM keeping the game running smoother. I'm not sure to what extent, but DX10 also improves a lot of other details like shaders too. In the end DX10 should really help this card perform better. Only downside DX10 works only with Vista.
  
  I really thought i got my money's worth. I have yet to try it on Vista. If you have this card I don't think you'd have to be worried about better cards. OF COURSE MOST OF THE PERFORMANCE DEPENDS ON YOUR OTHER SYSTEM COMPONENTS.

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• 10 stars

  Very fast and quiet

  by xrd9 on May 20, 2008

  Pros: blows 7600GT w/SLi away

  Cons: negative reviews

  Summary: The 7600GT does not even come close to this one, even w/SLi enabled.The stock fan is much quieter then what the 7600GT is provided with. BF2 is smooth ...

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  Summary: The 7600GT does not even come close to this one, even w/SLi enabled.The stock fan is much quieter then what the 7600GT is provided with. BF2 is smooth and scrolls right along, a little dated but fun to play. why cnet would compare this with an ATI card not even released?? not a good praise for anyone, childish.

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• 10 stars

  great deal for people on budget

  by alexander224 on May 18, 2008

  Pros: great performance for price.

  Cons: none that i know of.

  Summary: I picked mine up for under $100 and will probably run an sli setup for less than 200 so great deal when you think about.

  Summary: I picked mine up for under $100 and will probably run an sli setup for less than 200 so great deal when you think about.

• 4 stars

  Great price for something new

  by tinkertron on November 24, 2007

  Pros: Price is good

  Cons: Driver won't work. Waitting on support staff to contact me

  Summary: I've tried this one two system. One running Windows XP works great on OS but not on games. Getting checkerbox effect. Got the same effect on both OS and ...

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  Summary: I've tried this one two system. One running Windows XP works great on OS but not on games. Getting checkerbox effect. Got the same effect on both OS and games under Windows Vista.

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• 7 stars

  Good as a start

  by VWXYZadam on November 3, 2007

  Pros: Good if you don't know if you will use your PC for gaming.

  Cons: not able to handle exstremly heavy games like Crysis on max. settings

  Summary: i got this card with my Dell Dimension 9200 and i have been very happy to see that it runs Command & Conqer 3 smoothly with every thing on high ...

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  Summary: i got this card with my Dell Dimension 9200 and i have been very happy to see that it runs Command & Conqer 3 smoothly with every thing on high and only begin lagging when there is around 900 figures on screen.
  
  The performance in the Crysis Demo has also been exelenct for the price, but if you want to play Crysis at its near-to-real-life graphics you will need a much better card.
  
  this card runs Crysis demo playable (15-20 FPS) on these settings:
  
  resolution: 1070x760
  Anti-Aliasing: off
  every thing on "Very High" exept for:
  Shoadows: High
  Textures: Medium/High (dependen on how low FPS you will accept)
  Shaders: medium
  Objects: high/medium (dependen on how low FPS you will accept)
  
  if you want to play games, this is a good card to get, but if you want to play Crysis get 2 8800 GTX in SLI or wait for the new 8800 GTS or the 9XXX series

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• 8 stars

  DX10 For bugdet gamers!! :)

  by chinto20 on September 27, 2007

  Pros: Good performance for the price and good overclocking level

  Cons: this card is only for 1280x1024, higher resolution will make ur fps go down

  Summary: one of the best cards right now if u don't have enough cash for the 8800s
  u get about 45- 60fps in every game with 1024x768 4xAA and all
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  Summary: one of the best cards right now if u don't have enough cash for the 8800s
  u get about 45- 60fps in every game with 1024x768 4xAA and all high and in 1280x1024 u get 45-60 all high

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• 6 stars

  Bad benchmarking

  by gamecrazychris on July 7, 2007

  Pros: DirectX 10

  Cons: not nearly as good as 320mb 8800 gts

  Summary: Cnet really needs to fix their benchmarking. Don't belive me look at the 320mb gts on this review and then look at it on its own review. They had ...

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  Summary: Cnet really needs to fix their benchmarking. Don't belive me look at the 320mb gts on this review and then look at it on its own review. They had it scoring higher than the GTX! (look at company of heroes and Oblivion benchmarks)

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• 8 stars

  Better Benchmarks than CNet

  by penti01 on July 6, 2007

  Pros: DX10 compatible, some OC versions

  Cons: Not worth the price

  Summary: i was really pissed off when i noticed CNet's benchmarks for this GPU... i had mine (MSI 8600 GT OC) for almost 2 weeks already and I'm certainly ...

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  Summary: i was really pissed off when i noticed CNet's benchmarks for this GPU... i had mine (MSI 8600 GT OC) for almost 2 weeks already and I'm certainly impressed... Compared to my other desktop with a 7900GS, this certainly was better... after doing some tests on Oblivion, the 7900GS was faster by around 2 fps, but the 8600 had all settings set to high while the 7900 had some set to medium (of course, grass was off one both) add the fact that it's DX10 compatible!
  
  although it's a 8600 GS, the overclocked version gave it a much needed kick! being able to increase performance by 10%, it almost rivals the 8600GTS...
  
  One thing though that it's not quite worth the price, but since the manufacturer replaced my 7900GS order with this without any additional costs (roughly $160) it was a steal, although at its current price at around $200+, i would just add for a better GPU...
  
  If you're planning on getting this card, i would recommend you to check other review sites out there, i'm sure they will give better benchmarks for this card...
  
  Overall, it is an impressive GPU (given a discounted price) that's highly put down by CNet...

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