Features:

• PCI-Express SLI-ready video card with 256 MB of 128 bit DDR3 memory
• Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Shader Model 4.0
• PCI-Express and Open GL 2.0 support
• NVIDIA SLI Technology allows two graphics cards to run simultaneously
• Dual Link DVI for high resolution monitors (up to 2560x1600)

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
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Amazon.com Product Description:
The XFX PV-T84J-UDD3 NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 256 MB PCI-E Video Card is SLI Ready and was built on NVIDIA's fourth-generation GPU architecture for Windows Vista, offering you the best possible user experience. With full Microsoft DirectX 10 Support, this card is the world's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support, delivering unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects. It offers 256 MB of 128 bit DDR3 memory with a 22.4 GB-per-second memory bandwidth.

NVIDIA's SLI technology delivers up to twice the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games. OpenGL support ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL applications, while NVIDIA nView Multi-display advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors.

The card's 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) offers twice the precision of prior generations for incredibly realistic lighting effects, while its lightning fast, high-quality anti-aliasing at up to 16x sample rates obliterates jagged edges. Dual DVI support allows the card to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays, and Dual Link DVI is capable of supporting digital output for high resolution monitors (up to 2560x1600).

The HDTV-ready GeForce 8600GT is designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture, which doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB-per-second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

Rating : - Oustanding, best in its range
This is an outstanding mid-range performance card: It's reasonably priced, reasonably powerful, well-supported and stable, and runs quiet. It's well made and feels solid; no cheap components here. The overclocking of the XXX edition and the GDDR3 means this card is notably faster than other 8600s.

It's easy to set up, unlike higher-end cards: no special 6-pin PCIe power connector needed, no PCIe 2.0 slot required, no worrying if your power supply has enough juice to drive it, no worrying if that extra long high-end card will fit across your MicroATX mainboard.

Very few other cards will give this level of performance as a straight-forward drop-in on your average consumer desktop PC. Of course, if you're willing to upgrade other components, deal with cooling issues, etc, you can get higher performance for a higher price. But for this effort-level and this price, this card is hands-down the best.

This 8600GT won't run the newest FPS games at their highest settings (but WILL run most at reasoanable settings), hence my calling it "mid-range".

I'm a techie and I've built a number of homebrew PC rigs, so it takes a lot for me to be impressed. This card is impressive, and two XFX cards I've now owned (this one and a new Nvidia9800GT) lead me to believe that XFX makes the best PC video cards on the market today. Highly recommended.