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XFX PVT84JUDD3 GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Ready Video Card (Dual DVI/S-Video)

XFX PVT84JUDD3 GeForce 8600GT XXX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Ready Video Card (Dual DVI/S-Video)


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Brand: XFX
Category: CE

List Price: $164.99
Buy New: $92.24
You Save: $72.75 (44%)



Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 reviews
Sales Rank: 1665

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Graphics RAM: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 0.8 x 4.4
nv:GPU/VPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
RAMDAC: Dual 400 MHz
Fill Rate per Second: 8.64 Billion pixels
Additional Features: RoHS Compliant
Additional Features: HDTV Ready
Additional Features: SLI Ready
Additional Features: OpenGL 2.0
Additional Features: DirectX 10
Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
Video Memory: 256MB
Memory Type: GDDR3
Core Clock: 620 MHz
Memory Interface: 128-bit
Memory Clock: 1600 MHz
Shader Clock: 1355 MHz
Stream Processors: 32
Memory Bandwidth: 22.4GB/sec.
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty

MPN: PVT84JUDD3
Model: PVT84JUDD3
UPC: 778656043886
EAN: 0778656043886
ASIN: B000P9ZG00

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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)

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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.

Product Description
Get the unparalleled graphics realism and game performance. Get the unsurpassed PC movie quality, with support for Windows Vista. Stop craving and start playing with the complete line of NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series GPU's.


Customer Reviews:   Read 51 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Good graphic card   July 10, 2008
Miguel Useche Castro (San Cristobal, Tachira Venezuela)
This is a great card for your money, it plays most of new games like Gears of War, Crysys, Unreal 3, Bioshock and others.

This is not a top graphics card, but a great medium card for the price.



5 out of 5 stars Excelente!!!!!   June 27, 2008
Oswaldo A. (Caracas, Venezuela)
El rendimiento de esta tarjeta es muy bueno, claro que no se compara con las de gama alta, pero he podido jugar Crysis sin ningun problema(terminado 2 veces), Timeshift, Gears of Wars, Hellgate London, NFS Most Wanted y Carbon y puedo certificar que todos los juegos han corrido excelente, la recomiendo.
Si eres alguien de bajo presupuesto y te gustan los juegos, esta es la tarjeta!!!.
Nota: Por ser una tarjeta con Overcloking, la temperatura es alta en los juegos asi que no se asusten si la ven llegar casi a los 68C



4 out of 5 stars Works great with linux   June 22, 2008
Kunal Naik (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

After getting completely frustrated with trying to tweak my ATI card to actually do its job with my Ubuntu and openSuSE linux setup, I took the advice of everyone and opted with an Nvidia card. The difference was AMAZING. All I had to do was plug in the card, run a setup utility and the card was doing its job. Nvidia has done a great job making their cards work with linux (providing great drivers and setup utilities) and tweaking settings was so simple. Within minutes, I got my two screens running 3D acceleration with Compiz desktop effects.
Specifically, this 8600GT is a great workhorse. Lots of power to do some impressive 3D work, dual-DVI output for great high-resolution HD viewing and a TV output that also is so easy to setup in linux.
The only complaint I have is that this vendor decided to put a monstrous fan on the GPU and I can really hear it. Its not even like my box was whisper quiet before, I already had a couple fans in there. But its not like I really care since my music usually drowns it out anyways.



5 out of 5 stars Superb Video Quality & Screen Resolution   May 27, 2008
Augustin A. Julien
Excellent Video Card. Works great with UBuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron).Talk about virtual OS' using Virtual Box.Running Win XP & Fedora core all at once while working in KDE Desktop on Hardy Heron is great.I put this card with AMD x2 5000+ (2.6 Ghz processor), 2gig of ram,WD 320gig SATA Hard drive,LiteOn Lightscribe Burner,Biostar TA770 A2+ motherboard & 600Watt modular power supply. Great performance.Image quality is magnificent. Video works alot better,smooth and faster as compared to my other desktop PC.


4 out of 5 stars Great Economy Card   May 27, 2008
BobLap (Jackson, NJ United States)
Bought this card to upgrade the video in my son's Acer computer.

Installation was a snap, drivers loaded with no problem.

My son is an avid gamer on a tight budget so no top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art video cards for him. (Who wants to spend $500 for a video card anyway?) Bought an Acer that was on sale and added this card. It really makes the system fly.

Plays his games at high resolution and doesn't complain about the frame rates that he gets.

Great card for the money.