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Review: MSI GeForce 8600GTS - the new mid-range champion?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 17 April 2007, 14:00

Tags: MSI Geforce 8600GTS, MSI

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Hardware

Graphics cards MSI NX8600GTS-HD-OC Inno3D iChill 7900GS Arctic Cooling Silencer 6 XFX Fatal1ty 7600GT ASUS EAX1950PRO
GPU Clock Speed (MHz) 720 550 650 580
Memory Clock Speed (MHz) 2200 1500 1600 1404
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.40GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, 1066MHz FSB, LGA775)
Motherboard eVGA NF68 (NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI) ASUS PW5-DH Deluxe (Intel i975X)
BIOS revision 691N0P20 1305
Memory 1GBytes (2 x 512MByte) OCZ26671024ELDCGE-K PC5400
Memory timings and speed 4-4-4-8 @ DDR2-667
Disk drive(s) 160GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 (3Gb/s mode)
Mainboard software NVIDIA platform driver 9.53 Intel Inf Update 8.0.1.1002
Graphics driver ForceWare 158.16 ForceWare 93.71 CATALYST 7.1
Operating System Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit


Software

3D Benchmarks Far Cry v1.33
Quake 4 v1.30
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory v1.05


Notes

While the NX8600GTS and Fatal1ty 7600GT both feature higher clocked memory than the Inno3D iChill 7900GS and ASUS EAX1950PRO they both only have a 128-bit memory interface, not 256-bit, resulting in lower overall memory bandwidth.