GeForce 8800GT: Chaintech versus XFX
Date: 20.12.2007
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The GeForce 8800GT series is conquering the market at an increasing pace, tempting the buyers by its high enough performance at a moderate price. No wonder that most manufacturers are in a hurry to supply their own versions of 8800GT video cards onto the market as soon as possible. But apart from the striving, something more is needed which would draw the buyer's attention to a specific video card. This time, we'll see which marketing methods were used by Chaintech and XFX to attain that goal.
Chaintech 8800GT
The video card by Chaintech is shipped in a light-colored box depicting a fairy-tale girl that brings us back to the memories of childhood.
The reverse side of the box is more formidable and gives an idea of the alignment of forces on the front of video cards with a table.
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The table presents a classification of NVIDIA video cards starting with the GeForce 7 family. Quite possibly, it will help somebody to choose a video card in future because it gives a clear and concise idea of suitability of a specific GPU to a specific application.
The designers have placed the image of the girl not only on the box but on the video card itself and the user's guide. However, the package bundle of Chaintech 8800GT includes not only the image of the fairy-tale beauty but the following useful items as well:
- power supply adapter for PCI-E video cards;
- DVI>D-sub adapter;
- S-Video connection cable;
- S-video>Component out adapter;
- drivers CD;
- installation manual.
As you can see, the cooling system on Chaintech 8800GT is different from that on the reference GeForce 8800GT. The fan has turned larger, and the metal lid is fastened to the radiator with screws and not latches as it used to.
The color of the PCB has turned blue.
The reverse side of the video card has lost the NVIDIA logo, but in all the remaining that is a regular GeForce 8800GT which uses onboard G92 with 112 streaming processors and 512 MB of DDR3 assembled of eight Qimonda chips of 1.0 ns access time.
The processing quality of the copper insert in the cooling system is good enough, however, you won't be able to use it as a mirror.
We were unable to remove the lid from the cooling system because of the tightly fitted screws, but its contents is unlikely to differ from the predecessor. The heat conductive washers have been changed - they are now more durable and able to survive several disassemblies of the cooling system.
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