The time has come for NVIDIA to launch its latest weapon on the graphics card market and after the turbulence surrounding AMD's acquisition of arch rival ATI the focus has slipped a little from the products to the manufacturers. Now it's time to change all that and the upcoming future we can promise you that there will be loads of articles and information about NVIDIA's new graphics card series; GeForce 8800.
NVIDIA's new architecture has been one of the best kept secrets in a very long time and even if there are tons of rumors most of them have been wrong. NVIDIA has done everything to keep G80 a secret, it has done a great job too and we are not surprised why. The graphics cards have become more and more advanced over the years and the fact that both transistors and power consumption have gone way past those we've seen for processors is a proof of that. But this generation, by that we mean NVIDIA G80 and ATI's coming R600, will be something really extraordinary. Neither NVIDIA nor ATI are holding anything back but are going for the most brutal performance with new architectures with hundreds of millions transistors. We will publish a more thorough review of NVIDIA's flagship later on, but as the time has been quite narrow and a whole new architecture like G80 requires a thorough dissection while at the same time we want to spend more time with the card before we hand out our final judgment.
But in the true spirit of NordicHardware we done precisely what NVIDIA has, we throw away all boundaries and push NVIDIA's enthusiast card to the extreme. That the flagship GeForce 8800 GTX is a graphics card for computer enthusiasts and overclockers is a given, so we felt it was the right thing to out the card in the hands of one of the world's best overclockers Marcus "Kinc" Hultin. Today we offer you a short overclocking preview of GeForce 8800 GTX, but we will have a full review available for you soon and several overclocking articles with focus on, amongst others, GeForce 8800 GTX.
