ECS GeForce 8800 GTX appearance and thoughts
ECS is entering the retail graphics-card market with a complete range of NVIDIA-based SKUs. It has considerable experience in marketing products in different environments so we expect it to succeed here. Let's take a closer look at its GeForce 8800 GTX effort.
We've included a card picture that was provided by ECS. Our sample, as you will see partially below, was presented on a black PCB and with older artwork on the cooler plate. Not that it makes much difference, mind, as it's a reference card, just like the OCZ version, so everything that applies for it, architecturally, applies here, as well.
Different colour PCB for our sample but that's all.
A GeForce 8800 GTX is a GeForce 8800 GTX is a GeForce 8800 GTX springs to mind. That's true unless the AIC indulges in some factory-based pre-overclocking: both OCZ and ECS don't.
Grubby fingerprints aside, it's TV-Out only. Both DVI ports, as you will no doubt know by now, are dual-link capable and certified for HDCP, meaning that protected high-definition content - particularly Blu-ray and HD-DVD - can be played back in all its glory on a compatible screen.
80 per cent of GeForce 8800 GTXs are, we'd say, based entirely on the bone-stock reference design that's manufactured by Flextronics. Performance, then, should be near-identical between these models. The differentiating factors will be bundle, warranty, availability and, crucially, pricing. Let's see how ECS does in those departments.
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