On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at 2560x1920 pixels and then scaled down. The camera used was a Sony DCS-F707 5.1 MegaPixel.

In alphabetical order again.

To let you know what to look for in the stores, yes... the box.

A clean, pretty looking design. The 8600 GT cards have quite a low power draw due to the lower clocks, roughly 45 Watts. So here we do not see a 6-pin power connector. Which quite honestly I would have liked to see... why ? Because it's good for overclocking.

The GT (and GTS) 8600 cards all support two dual-link, HDCP enabled DVI-I outputs for high-resolution output connectivity. To your upper left you can see a 7-pin video out port for support for S-Video, composite and component (YPrPb) through an optional dongle. Most board partner include some sort of S-video cable and analog HDTV cable for this.

The card is not HDCP capable, it's up to the board partners to decide to include a crypto chip for this function.

Toush, hiny, bottocks... whatever you like to call it. We're looking at the rear end of the videocard.

Fired up and benchmarking in the test system. Oh yeah... it can do SLI as well.