XFX Geforce 8600GT Extreme Edititon 256Mb
"The XFX 8600GT Extreme Overclock 256MB DDR3 is a decent card that offers pretty good performance at low-medium settings. It could appeal to the cost conscience gamer."
Posted on Dec 19, 2007, 10:08 AM UTC by Winston Chim
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Installation and Package
Package and Contents
The contents and package is very well presented and comes with all the usual drivers and manual on CD, but no games included. As far as connectivity is concerned, there's one DVI-to-VGA converter and one s-video cable. All the basics to get you started. A nice Zalman GPU cooler is perfectly fitted and fits nicely in our test rig.
Installation
Installation of the card into the motherboard is easy, and it is able to fit most small cases and motherboards with ease! All it needs is one PCI Express slot and once it’s in make sure the clips are down for extra support! Drivers are needed when running the operating system after installation to achieve maximum results but you can get most of the drivers from either XFX or Nvidia themselves!
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Driver installation was very simple ... no further comment here. In our benchmark tests, we used the latest Forceware drivers v163.75
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