nVidia GeForce 8600 graphics card test

Foxconn GeForce 8600 GTS

The Foxconn GeForce 8600 GTS that we received is virtually identical to the reference model as discussed in our extensive test. The cooler is exactly the same and the clockspeeds are the normal 675 MHz for the GPU and 1000 Mhz for the memory. The card sports 256MB of GDDR3 memory, two dual-link DVI ports and a PEG power connector. As you will see later on the overclocking capabilities of all GTS cards are very similar, Foxconn managed to get the highest result by 1 MHz and reached 780MHz core speed and 1142 Mhz memory speed. The overclocked setting resulted in a 3DMark06 score of 6454, 12.5% more then the score at normal speeds.

The Foxconn card that will eventually hit the shelves uses a slightly larger heatsink (see picture) and could reach higher overlocking speeds. We have to note that the memory chips on this card will not be cooled by the heatsink, where the reference model card's heatsink does. We did not test this version of the card but as stated before received a card similar to th ereference model by Foxconn.

Onder: de GeForce 8600 zoals Foxconn die uiteindelijk in de winkel wil leggen.

Foxconn chooses not to bundle any games with their card, but we did find two utilities by Farstone, two DVI-to-D-Sub adapters and a compoment cable.