Ah, Bon Soir my friends, and welcome to anoteuuur review <- fantastic French accent there, eh? So hey, the year was 2007, it was a cold day that 29th of October, but I remember it well. Very well. See, it was the day that NVIDIA released their GeForce 8800 GT, it was the day that all gamers had a smile on their faces after reading all these raving reviews. Hey, congratulations are in order as NVIDIA issued a card that day at mhhh 229-249 USD that offered heaps of performance.

Yes folks, that was only six weeks ago; the point where silly season began. Today NVIDIA is officially releasing a new graphics card based on the same G92 chip as that GT. It's the new GeForce 8800 GTS with 512MB of memory. Now I know, nothing is more confusing than NVIDIA's product line-up right now. If we merely look at the GTS models, we have the 320MB version with 96 shader processors, a 640 MB model with 96 processors, then there's the overclocked versions and now ... cheaper than that 320MB model a 512MB GTS yet with 128 shader processors.

Now don't be alarmed, we'll tell you what to get! You can officially skip the 320MB and 640 MB models as the all new GTS 512 MB model is based on the newer G92 based 65nm silicon, is almost as fast as a 768 GTX and is priced pretty darn competitive. Goodness, did I just blow my own conclusion. Ah well ...

What we'll do today is as always simple, we grabbed two board partners by the nuts, and squeezed really hard until they stated "okay okay okay ... we'll get you a card prior to launch, just loosen up that hand Hilbert!". And right there and then it happened, the lovely UPS lady doing her little ballerina dance at our doorstep giving us two boxes with NVIDIA's latest G92 graphics cards. 

The board-partners are BFG and Point of View, and they both offer a GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB graphics card that will already be clocked a little faster for you. BFG traditionally releases it's snazzy OC (overclock) edition and Point of View their foxy "EXO" edition which again means an overclock brought to you as standard setting flashed into the graphics card BIOS.

Over the next pages we'll dive into the stuff that is called G92, we'll look at the two cards separately, then fire off a nice round of benchmarks at the cards top see how they perform and where they stand among the rest of the 8 series products.

It's time to get started, next page if you please. But not before we go "oooh" ...