It’s worth reminding that the performances of a card such as this one are limited by the hardware that they’re placed upon, especially in the CPU area. Even a top Core2 Duo would perhaps not be enough to fully show the card’s potential, especially if the user is planning on a SLI system with 2 or more cards.

It would be interesting to evaluate the card’s performance with the DirectX 10 technology, to see if the technical and projecting solutions by nVidia were indeed a good move. The only downside on this model is the energy requirements in order to make the card work, 40 W more than the ATI X1950 XTX when in idle. Also the space it requires: 27cm are longer than any ATX mainboard, which would make this card impossible to be placed in small Cases.

In any case, the 8800 GTX is more than recommended.