I have used this card for over a year now,i bought it before ATI released their now famous 3xxx range which i regret i had waited. A 8800 was out of my range as i wanted something good for the price and this jumped out at me,at first i wasnt disappointed,the specs seemed decent enough and the fact xfx had this one factory overclocked seemed the winner throughout the 8600 series. 512mb of onboard memory is good, the thing that limits the card are the use of a 128 bit memory bus width compared to the 8800 gts being 320,289 million transistors compare to the 8800 gts's 681 and the shading processing power of 139 gigaflops to 345 respectively. From this you can see ...  Read the complete review