Although the two XFX cards are overclocked, they still use the standard NVIDIA reference design cooling and PCB size. Just like the reference design, the video cards still use a large cooling solution that covers most of the cards’ surfaces. The heatsink is in contact with both the GPU and GDDR3 video memory, meaning that it cools both. Since the cooling solution is quite large, the video card is not able to fit into a single-slot and instead requires two slots for proper installation. The higher clock frequencies don’t add another PCIe power input to the GeForce 8800 GTS, and it still ends up requiring only a single power input. The faster and bulkier GeForce 8800 GTX, as can only be expected, still requires two PCIe power inputs.

A rear view of the card clearly shows that both video cards are identical to their NVIDIA reference counterparts as far as PCB size goes. The longer NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX is equipped with two NVIDIA SLI connectors while the downscaled GeForce 8800 GTS only comes with one. For both video cards the SLI connectors are located near the top right of the PCB.

The accessory bundle that XFX includes with the video cards contains nothing very extraordinary. Since the price of these video cards is already quite high, XFX chose on including a light bundle of accessories so as to not increase the final price of the product even further. The bundle includes a driver CD-ROM, a simple but clear video card installation manual, two DVI to VGA adapters, a composite video dongle, and an S-Video connector.

Product: XFX
XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB DDR3 XXX Version
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