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With GeForce 8800 Ultras available in-stock in the UK from SCAN Computers at £435 inc VAT, the ~£540 asking price for the eVGA Superclocked version makes precious little sense, even at the inflated clocks - they're the second highest for all the partner overclocked boards as best as we can tell, with the 768MB XFX 8800 Ultra XXX costing £480.

There's always the argument that some speed-freaks will spend the extra money to get the best possible performance. However, those people surely won't grumble at the lower price of the faster XFX Ultra XXX (675/1667/2300) and get more potential performance for not-quite-so-silly money, instead, right?

But regardless of who the potential customers are, and how many of them exist, the fact is that the eVGA Superclocked GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB is one of the fastest graphics products ever produced.

It's comfortably faster than a GTX and outruns the standard Ultra hardware. In those terms, it stands out.

But the price is genuinely laughable in terms of performance-per-pound, dollar, rupee or whatever your spendable is.

At the present price, it can't be recommended in any general sense. So, we can only reasonably give the product a generic speed award and let you know that, given the alternatives, you'd be mad to open your wallet for an eVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked 768MB.

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eVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked 768MB

HEXUS Where2Buy

You can currently buy the eVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked 768MB KO for around £540 here.

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At HEXUS.net, we invite the companies whose products we test to comment on our articles. If any of eVGA's representatives choose to do so, we'll publish their commentary here verbatim.

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and Vista x64 can be easily downloaded from the web.

Are you condoning piracy :)

or did you mean :

and drivers for Vista x64 can be easily downloaded from the web.

Bob, the layout in page 4 is broke, the columns of text are all over the place :)

Pg2.

“Like the GeForce 8800 GTX, the Ultra needs two two-pin power connectors but the hardware supports SLI if you fancy running two Ultras in tandem.”

Surely thats 2 6pin's ?

But the picture also shows solder points for an 8pin like the ATIs, im guessing thats for the 8800 SuperUltra, or TurboGTX, or whatever excuse Nvidia can make for adding an extrea 10Mhz to the core, and charging £200 for the consumer.

alsenior
Are you condoning piracy :)

or did you mean :

and drivers for Vista x64 can be easily downloaded from the web.

Sorry, I really don't know what you mean!

:rolleyes:

(Now fixed, of course!)

Sim0n
Pg2.

“Like the GeForce 8800 GTX, the Ultra needs two two-pin power connectors but the hardware supports SLI if you fancy running two Ultras in tandem.”

Surely thats 2 6pin's ?

Indeed. Thanks for the heads-up!