“The EVGA 8800GT 1GB AKIMBO is an interesting card in many respects. The performance is not up to the 9800GTX but it is close being that the two cards share the same video chip just with 16 SPs disabled. The main selling point of this card is the AKIMBO cooling solution as it kept the card noticeably cooler during operation, about 15-20C cooler according to NVIDIA’s temperature monitoring software.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- EVGA e-GeForce 8800GT AKIMBO 1GB @ motherboards.org
- Sparkle 8800GTS 512 MB @ Bjorn3D
- XFX GeForce 9600 GT XXX 512MB @ Guru3D
- XFX GeForce 9800GX2 1GB Review @ InsideHW
- x264 HD Benchmark Version 2.0 @ TechARP
- RivaTuner v2.09 Released @ Guru3D
- Matrox TripleHead 2 Go Digital Edition (DVI) @ Guru3D
- DIAMOND Radeon HD 3650 1GB @ Tweaktown
- DX10 gaming on a HD3450 @ Neoseeker
- HIS Radeon HD3650 IceQ (H365Q512GNP) @ Overclockers Online
- Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 Toxic review @ Elite Bastards
- Visiontek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Overclocked @ Techspot
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EVGA’s e-GeForce 8800GT AKIMBO incorporates two features that will be very attractive to overclockers, three phase power and a dual slot cooler. While Gamepyre’s testing did not include maximum overclocking abilities, they did find that nVIDIA’s claims of a 20C temperature difference from the reference model were fairy accurate. That leaves you a lot of headroom on a card with some fairly good performance.