The hot new graphics cards right now are based on the the affordable 8800GT chipset from nVidia. I recently received an XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition graphics card for review. This card came in at standard 8800GT clocking with 256MB of DDR3 memory.

We will take a look at this card, run it through tests with some of the latest games, and then compare it to another 8800GT that I reviewed here recently. How does it stack up? The smaller amount of memory appeared to have made a drastic difference in a few cases. Overall, though, this is an impressive card.

Box Shot

Testing was limited to Windows XP. According to November's browser stats, XP accounts for 57% of visitor hits versus 28% for Vista.

• Thermaltake Armor Series Case with Rosewill 550Watt Modular Power Supply
• BFG nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
• Intel E6700 Core2 Duo
• 2GB Corsair XMS 5-5-5-18 800MHz DDR2 RAM
• Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM Hard Drive
• Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card
• Chimei CMV 221D-NBC 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
• Microsoft Windows XP Pro with SP2 and DirectX 9.0c
• Some optical drives

• XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition graphics card
• XFX Driver Installation Disc
• 2 DVI to VGA Adapters
• HDTV Cable
• 6 pin PCI-E Power Cable
• S-Video Cable
• User Guide
• Lost Planet
• Do Not Disturb Door Handle Hang Tag

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