ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo 512MB

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The Photos

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.

ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo review

ECS packaging. Obviously this bundle comes with the cooler pre-installed. Let's have a look at it.

ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo review

The one thing you'll need to do is mount the fans on there should you wish to use them. A pretty nice design, I like the small subtleties to be found in different color PCB (Blue), innovative cooling, little RAM sinks.

ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo review

The cooling ribbons unit however is huge, a helicopter might be able to land on there.

The two DVI ports support simultaneous HDCP and dual-link (meaning a possible resolutions up-to 2560 x 1600 with your bitching 30" monitor). This has been a possibility since NVIDIA's release of 65nm products and this is the second card in the series to boast this feature, others being incapable of the feat.

Given the fact HDMI is supported natively, manufacturers may choose to integrate a port, or otherwise, you may have to use an (expensive) DVI to HDMI adapter, which blows. ATI & their board partners deliver these HDMI dongle's for free with their products.

My advice to NVIDIA's board partners:

  • remove the analog RCA HDTV cables/adapters that NOBODY uses
  • remove one (analog) DVI-VGA dongle
  • and insert a DVI-to-HDMI connector

With the 7-pin HDTV-out mini-din, a user can plug an S-video cable directly into the connector, or use a dongle for YPrPb (component) or composite outputs. The prior 9-pin HDTV-out mini-din connector required a dongle to use S-video, YPrPb and composite outputs.

ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo review

Now when we flip the card around ... it's like a giant turtle on its back. Here, we can see the really large cooling heatsink, now take a good peek at the SLI finger; that's right, SLI is out of the question. Let's have a peek at some more photos.

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