XFX 8800 GTX XXX

INTRODUCTION

What's the most memorable thing you can remember about the year 2006 with regard to computer products? For us at Bjorn3D is has to be the incredible amount of new and in most cases worthwhile products that hit the market. Probably the largest sector of the market affected was the graphics industry. I can't remember a time in recent years in which more exciting new toys were released in such a short time span. The most recent product in this realm to shake the tree of the enthusiast community was the 8800 series of graphics cards based on either the 8800 GTX or GTS MCP from NVIDIA® which was released just two months ago. These single GPU/VPU graphics solutions rapidly obtained "King of the Hill" status in many cases out performing even the fastest CrossFire™ based rigs.

XFX, one of the best known graphics solutions manufacturers in the computer industry, has just released the first factory overclocked version of this card; the XFX GeForce® 8800 GTX XXX. Bjorn3D was extremely fortunate in that we were chosen by XFX to be one of the first of a small number of review sites to have the opportunity to examine this card's performance in depth. Please join us as we find out if a new King will be crowned or if this product is just another contender.

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XFX: The Company

XFX®, a company that is very well know not only to the general computer consumer but to the Computer Enthusiast community as well operates on the following corporate philosophy:  "XFX® dares to go where the competition would like to, but can't. That's because, at XFX®, we don't just create great digital video components--we build all-out, mind-blowing, performance crushing, competition-obliterating video cards and motherboards." "Oh, and not only are they amazing, you don't have to live on dry noodles and peanut butter to afford them."

From our rather extensive experience doing XFX® product reviews we've seen this corporate philosophy transcend from merely words into a series of excellent, highly polished digital wonders that go a step beyond in not only performance but quality as well. We are highly anticipative that our review sample, the XFX®GeForce™ 8800 GTX XXX will continue to follow this same tradition.