XFX 8800 GTS 320 MB: Another Fatal1ty

INTRODUCTION

In December, 2006, XFX launched the first card in their new Fatal1ty Professional Series, the 7600 GT which was endorsed by the worlds #1 gamer, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. XFX stated the following in their press release of this product: “This card proves that teaming XFX technology with the hardcore gamer’s demands results in performance that buyers literally haven’t seen before”.

In July, 2007, XFX released the second card in their Fatal1ty Professional series which was based on the the NVIDIA® 8600GT GPU/VPU, which we had the pleasure of reviewing. These two cards followed XFX's Fatl1ty Mission of: "Providing a performance overclocked product that features an affordable price that will appeal to all players". Each of these cards diverted from the norm in that they both were passively cooled with XFX's renowned "Silent But Deadly" (SBD) cooling solution.

Today at Bjorn3D we have the distinct pleasure of reviewing the third card to be included in XFX's Fatal1ty Professional series, the GeForce™ 8800 GTS. After the success of its predecessors, this card has some big shoes to fill. XFX claims that this is the fastest 8800 GTS based card currently boasting a 30% improvement over the standard 8800 GTS 320MB card. XFX further states we can expect an astounding 15% increase in speed over all other 8800 GTS versions. The statements by XFX would lend us to believe the performance of this card should be approaching the speed of the standard 8800 GTX card, I guess we'll soon see!

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."