Today’s Computer Hardware Porn…
Posted by Stephen on
August 10, 2007
Yes my friends, you are seeing not one 8800 Ultra, but TWO 8800 Ultras! nVidia’s top of the line GPU somehow made it into my hands. Eeeeeexcellent! They also carry a top of the line price tag. Yikes!
I’ll be using these in my test rig to push the largest power supplies and whatever else needs testing. Of course, I’ll also play a few games on them too 
The all black cooling fan shroud and black PCB’s make these things look like Computer Hardware Porn! They are a damn sexy pair of twins! They are also longer than the edge of the PCB on my 680i SLI motherboard. Clearly, they are not made for tiny cases. Notice how they are using not one, but FOUR PCI-E 6 pin connectors from my 1000 Watt NZXT Power Supply (reviewed here). If your power supply doesn’t have four, then you need TWO 4 pin connectors doubled up with the included adapters.
When switched on, they sound like a couple of blow dryers. However, these blow dryers also put out 15,371 3DMarks on 3DMark2006 with no tweaks. For reference, my old 7800 GTX’s in SLI only did around 4700 3DMarks. A set of 8800 GTS’s did just over 7000. That’s crazy!
Looks like I’ll be good for a while folks
I just got a hard-on.
Wow… I see why you might also try out some games… I’ll bet the cards deal really smoothly in Solitaire!
Like Buttah!
Sweet toys
That should keep you busy for a while 
one day I’ll be able to run SLi cards! Let alone 8800 ultras!
Now to compensate for the ‘blow dryer’ noise just crank up the volume of the game you’re playing!
Man I kept waiting for the paragraph where you said something like “Since I really only play solitaire and minesweeper, I’m giving one of these babies away” or something like that…
Nice cards! I havent had a chance to get my hands on the Ultras yet, still running two 8800 GTX cards…
im loving it! No Ultras for me either
Nice cards, I may just have to look at a new PC one of these days.