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Gigabyte GV-NX86T256D Silent Pipe II (GeForce 8600GT) graphics card review Intro 1
Bluetooth 17 Apr 2007

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GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces a brand new thermal design, fanless Silent-Pipe II™ single-slot version with All-Solid capacitor design are featured on the GIGABYTE GV-NX86T256D. Equipped with the GeForce® 8600 GT GPU, the GIGABYTE GV-NX86T256D also includes the impressive Supreme Commander™ game bundle for hard-core RTS gamers. 

The card combines the best of technology from Gigabyte and NVIDIA, delivering a noiseless graphics card that outperforms active cooling designs using Silent Pipe II. On top of that, the bundle comes with the game Supreme Commander™, awarded Best Strategy Game at E3 2006.


 


Featuring the latest GeForce® 8600 GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory and DirectX® 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support, the GIGABYTE GV-NX86T256D delivers highly realistic gaming effects and enables full support for Microsoft® Windows Vista Premium. Differing from past GPU generations, the NVIDIA GeForce® 8600 GT features a dedicated “on-chip” video processor for superb picture quality and ultra smooth video playback. The GV-NX86T256D also features NVIDIA’s latest advanced technologies including NVIDIA’s GigaThreadTM Technology, Quantum EffectsTM Technology as well as support for NVIDIA’s LumenexTM engine, which introduces 16x Anti-aliasing and 128-bit floating point High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) rendering for the most realistic lighting effects.



The GIGABYTE GV-NX86T256D also supports HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) and features support for the latest video output interfaces, including Dual Dual-Link DVI, ensuring the highest quality, Hi-Def experience for the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD formats.

GV-NX86T256D comes with the 80nm-based G84 display core, designed on full floating point Stream Processor units and fully compatible with DirectX 10.0 and Shader Model 4.0 standards. It has four 1.4ns GDDR3 display memories with each of 16Mb*32Bit, the display memory specification is 256MB/128Bit, factory clocked at 600/720.

80nm processor technology is used to manufacture the 8600GT. It has 32 Stream processors and draw a max power of 8600GT at 43W. The memory width of the 8600GT is 128bits wide. The number of transistors on 8600GTS and 8600GT is 289 million Shader clk of the 8600GT is 1180MHz.

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