XFX GX260NADF9 GeForce GTX 260 896MB DDR3 576MHz PCI Express 2.0 SLI Ready Video Card - Dual DVI/S-Video
With XFX's GeForce GTX 200 graphics cards, you can experience truly immersive 3D gaming experience that will make your heart race and your palms sweat. Harnessing the power of second-generation unified architecture, SLI technology and top-of-the-line DirectX 10 support, an in-your-face experience, delivered in blazing fast frame rates, is yours. Real life has never been this realistic. SLI Ready delivers up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI-Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games. NVIDIA's GPU PhysX technology that renders convincing facial expressions, multiple ultra-high polygon characters in complex environments and convincing physical effects like weather and explosions. NVIDIA PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration. NVIDIA CUDA technology enables programmers to offload the most intensive processing tasks from their CPU to their GPU, putting the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores to work for you. HybridPower technology lets you switch from the HybridPower compatible graphics card to a compatible, onboard motherboard GeForce GPU when running non-graphically intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience.
XFX GX260NADF9 GeForce GTX 260 896MB DDR3 576MHz PCI Express 2.0 SLI Ready Video Card - Dual DVI/S-Video Accessories
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Crysis
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XFX GX260NADF9 GeForce GTX 260 896MB DDR3 576MHz PCI Express 2.0 SLI Ready Video Card - Dual DVI/S-Video Reviews
This card can run crysis very high graphics settings at 42 fps ocasionally dropping to mid 30s (20-25 is the minimum decent playable fps). No Anti-aliasing, though. Cons: VERY LARGE, make sure it fits your chasis, I had to retrofit mine to make space for this card. And I mean the original unoptimized crysis, the one that brings monster computers to its knees. Resolution 1680x1050 (my monitor native resolution). Rig is: Q9550, Asus P5Q3, 4 Gb 1333 DDR3.
This was a good purchase for me. I would recommend this card over any 9000-series card, and I would recommend it over the much cheaper 8800 GT, which is totally inept at keeping itself cool under high work loads. The 260 GTX cooling fans are MUCH quieter than the upper-level 9000-series Nvidia cards. But, under high GPU work loads I believe that this card could be quieter, which is why I can't give it 5 stars.
I'm not a technical expert, but I had no problems installing this graphics card. So far, I have no complaints about my graphics processing; I think this is a solid purchase.
I just got this card and i was alittle skeptical at first. with this card i can run any high end game i throw at it with smooth playability. im running an athlon x2 6000 with 3 gigs of ram.
Con: The card is very long and takes up two slots. Pro: Very stable (much better than my previous SLI setup), low temp, low power (works fine with my old 550w power supply).
High performance - can play all games at maximum settings at 1920x1200.
I used to have lots of stability problems with SLI - with lockups, graphics corruption, overheating etc. Summary:.
For a brand new, top end card its also a reasonable price, although of course its more expensive than a mainstream card like the 9800gtx. Thats all gone now, and instead I get silky smooth performance at the highest settings, even on demanding games like Crysis.
I bought one last week to replace my aging 7900 SLI setup. Might cause some problems with small cases, or mean you have to rewire some other components.
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