XFX Alpha Dog XXX 8800GT 256MB Review :: Alpha Dog XXX 8800GT 256MB Layout

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The XFX XXX AD Edition card is very thin in its design and can easily fit into a single slot in your case. One excellent thing is the lower power requirements of the 8800GT over its bigger brother the Ultra. The Ultra is a power hog and requires the use of two six-pin connectors to operate properly, the GT on the other hand only needs a single connector. Unlike many cards we have seen in the past the 8800GT has nothing left uncovered from top to bottom of the card, no capacitors, no silicon, no nothing on the front side of the card where a plastic shield covers it completely. This makes for a very clean look and makes for less damage by accident to the capacitors when installing the card into your system. This was an excellent idea that will save Murphy’s law from happening.

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Overclocked right out of the box, the XXX Alpha Dog Edition 8800GT has a core clock of 600MHz, an 800MHz memory speed and has 1600 Pixel Shaders along with 256Mb of GDDR3 memory running at a speed of 1.0ns. The card supports the latest Direct-3D and DX10 API extensions as well as the new PCIe 2.0 standard that will supposedly double the bandwidth of information with boards that support that feature as well. The card is also much smaller in size than the 8800 and much shorter as well, which will make installation into smaller systems much easier. Two of these cards in SLI mode will still leave plenty of room for air flow between the two cards unlike a pair of Ultra's that not only run much hotter, also leave almost no room for air flow. The card supports resolutions up to 2560x1600 for those that may have a monitor that supports that, but most of us play our games at 1280X1024 or 1680X1050 so it should perform excellent at those resolutions.

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