eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GT Graphics Card

Good Midrange Card

Strengths: Performance for a good price is hard to beat. Running World of Warcraft with max settings I get 60 fps everywhere except Shattrath where I get 50.

Weakness: The card is thin, but long. Just barely fit my huge Antec P182 case.

The most I ever paid for a video card, but the performance I get out of it is worth every penny. Make sure the rest of your components won't bottleneck your performance.

By WVUSax - Mar 19, 2008

Good value for money

Strengths: Runs current games great, takes up only one slot

Weakness: Card is a little long, fan runs loud

This is a pretty popular graphics card and the price is constantly increasing, if it isn't sold out. As expected, it runs current games great. It meets or exceeds recommended system specifications for all current games, so that's expected. It takes up one slot, not like the higher-end cards which use dual-slot coolers, which is good for SLI or small mobos. Unfortunately, the card is a bit long....
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This is a pretty popular graphics card and the price is constantly increasing, if it isn't sold out.

As expected, it runs current games great. It meets or exceeds recommended system specifications for all current games, so that's expected.

It takes up one slot, not like the higher-end cards which use dual-slot coolers, which is good for SLI or small mobos.

Unfortunately, the card is a bit long. Together with the power connector at the end, it effectively eliminates one drive bay from my mid-tower case.

The card's fan is also probably the noisiest fan in my case. The 8800GT series runs hot, and the stock cooler doesn't really help things. Remember to get the latest BIOS from the EVGA forums if you've purchased your card some time ago. New cards have the updated BIOS which helps the temperatures a little. Alternatively, you can void your warranty and try an after-market cooler.

This card is good value for money, especially for SLI systems, and I highly recommend it.

By limoo - Feb 8, 2008

excellent card, as soon as the price drops, it will be awesome!

Strengths: Awesome performance in Crysis, BF2, Bioshock. Relatively quiet fan, good temparature. Great overclocker

Weakness: No HDMI-input LONG CARD

Upgraded to the 8800gt 512mb from my previous card, which was a 7900gt ko (over clocked edition with copper heat sink), also made by eVGA. What an increase in performance, with no other change. The 8800GT dominates in any game I've tried to play. Although it was a pretty good chunk of change, I'm glad I purchased it and would definitely recommend the card to anyone looking for an upgrade from a...
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Upgraded to the 8800gt 512mb from my previous card, which was a 7900gt ko (over clocked edition with copper heat sink), also made by eVGA. What an increase in performance, with no other change. The 8800GT dominates in any game I've tried to play. Although it was a pretty good chunk of change, I'm glad I purchased it and would definitely recommend the card to anyone looking for an upgrade from a 7-series upper end card.

By misternapps - Feb 4, 2008

Great upgrade from the 7 series.

Strengths: - great performance - a lot cheaper than the GTS or GTX - fairly quiet for a high-end card (improved 15-blade fan as opposed to the 13-blade fan in the original reference design)

Weakness: - still difficult to find at a price below MSRP - long card, resulting in a tricky installation - not DX 10.1 compatible

Before I purchased this 8800gt, I was using a 7900gt. The performance increase was incredible. In all of my games (flight simulator x, team fortress 2, dark messiah, crysis, need for speed pro street, etc.) my frames per second have increased twofold, if not threefold, at settings higher than those I've been using before. The card is also a lot quieter, and cost less than what I bought my 7900GT...
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Before I purchased this 8800gt, I was using a 7900gt. The performance increase was incredible. In all of my games (flight simulator x, team fortress 2, dark messiah, crysis, need for speed pro street, etc.) my frames per second have increased twofold, if not threefold, at settings higher than those I've been using before.


The card is also a lot quieter, and cost less than what I bought my 7900GT for, only 1-2 years ago. It was a bit of a hard fit during installation in my Antec Solo case, but there were no complications. I was also able to overclock it about 5% without problems - haven't tried higher than that yet.


I highly recommend this card for any hardcore gamer, who is still on a budget, and can't afford a G92 8800GTS or 8800GTX. Those cards only offer marginally more performance anyways, for a lot more money.

By roman_shey - Jan 27, 2008

Great Video Card

Strengths: scored a perfect score in Vista Ultimate 64-Bit

Weakness: should have bought sooner. Demand is so high they have raised msrp

Great card for the money. I'am not running SLI so this card was the perfect one if you want to save a little cash. It's hard to find in stock so you might need to buy directly from EVGA.

By mcperry - Jan 22, 2008