MSI Overclocked GeForce 8600 GT Review

MSI NX8600GT-T2D256E OC

As you could see from the pictures posted in the previous page, this video card uses a very simple aluminum cooler, which doesn’t touch the memory chips, as you can see in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Video card cooler doesn’t touch the memory chips.

In Figure 5, you can see this video card without its cooler.

Figure 5: MSI overclocked GeForce 8600 GT without its cooler.

This video card uses four GDDR3 512-Mbit 1.4 ns chips from Samsung (K4J52324QE-BC14) as you can see in Figure 6, making the 256 MB of memory this video card has. These chips can officially run up to 1.4 GHz (700 MHz x 2) and since on this video card the memory chips are running at 1.6 GHz they are already overclocked, running 14.28% above their official spec.

Figure 6: Samsung GDDR3 512-Mbit 1.4 ns chip.

This video card doesn’t come with any game. In Figure 7, you can see the video component cable, the S-Video cable, the two DVI-to-VGA adapters and the driver CD-ROM that come with the reviewed card.

Figure 7: CD, cables and adapters that come with this video card.