Today’s Computer Hardware Porn…

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 😉