. === Purpose of purchase === Graphics cards have become an essential part of PCs, especially where an on-board card isn't available. I had to buy a new graphics card, when my previous one had trouble coping with the high definition output. I decided that I needed a cheap graphics card, which could support HDMI and would last at least a few years. I considered a number of purchase options, looked at a few different graphics cards, and browsed very sellers pages online, as well as visiting a few shops. I wanted to make sure when I buy the card, I won't be wasting money at an expensive store, whether online or a high street ...  Read the complete review

Two months ago now, I bought a Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT Graphics Card replacement for my computer with the original (Nvidia MX440 64 Mb). My Nvidia Graphics card, in my ten year old computer finally died on me. Honestly, If I would have knew that the image quality and gaming performance would have been over ten times better than my original Graphics card, I would have swapped the original Graphics card a long time ago! The Nvidia GeForce GT is a 128 bit, 256 Mb GDDR3 Graphics Card (which has a lot of potential)! When I finished updating the Nvidia drivers, I could not get over how the image quality had drastically improved on my 1680x1050 monitor! Now, I can see ...  Read the complete review

-Little bit of history- Well according to the analysis done 6 years ago or so, the performance of graphics cards ... years ago revealed that the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT was actually the best card you could buy in terms of the price and performance of this card, 3DMark which by then was not so mediocre, was ahead even of that old card ATI Radeon HD 3850 that also was one of the best, LOL ok this is Obsolete and I know that makes no sense to do a review of a Video Card so old!, but unfortunately I hadn´t had a chance to upgrade my video card as well which I mainly like to buy the best today as the Nvidia GTX 480, OF COURSE! and spend about £300 at the moment, ...  Read the complete review

I got this for my desktop PC because the integrated graphics card was absolutely terrible, so after little looking around i found the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT it was quite cheap and had very good specifications. It was really easy to install on to my motherboard because i thought it might be harder than it actually was. So after I installed it to the motherboard I had to install the drivers for it, which was so easy it literally only took a few clicks. After about twenty minutes of staring everything it was ready to go, so I decided to play some half life 2, I was stuck for words and I was astonished at how a little piece of hardware could change the something by such a ..  Read the complete review