ECS Launches 8800 GT With A Twist
Category: Video CardsPosted: April 15, 2008 09:47PM
Author: razor
Respected motherboard and video card maker ECS Elitegroup has announced their unique - in a good way - GeForce 8800 GT graphics card. Like other GeForce 8800 GT graphics solutions, the ECS 8800 GT is a PCI-E 2.0 compliant, G92-based solution that sports a 256-bit memory bus in a low profile design featuring an Arctic Cooling Accelero L1 cooler. Things get interesting when the card's frame buffer is brought up - the ECS 8800 GT ships with 256 MB of RAM, but a simple firmware update will double the card's memory. That's right - a simple update is all that's needed to bring the total amount of GDDR3 RAM to 512 MB, which is enough to more than double frame rates in Crysis at higher resolutions. A twist, indeed. For more details and pictures of the ECS GeForce 8800 GT video card, you should check out the OCC review here.
Thanks to kingdingeling for the tip on this story.
