The Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT

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[@K3NnY_G]

Those were the days. Still got a 8800GTX build in a beige case under my bed, Q6600 at the helm. Man, everything was just more wonderous then.

[@systemsincode7023]

Exactly the same build powered me through my half life 2 days.. Now powering my sons minecraft upgraded with a 970gtx just fine

[@vladmihai306]

Yeah and if you think about it, the Q6600 was a chiplet based CPU

[@jimmy50341]

Still running my ultra with Arctic Accelero 8800 never gets over 65C Since I don't have time to game a lot, it's my primary Desktop PC with a 771 Xeon This card is a legendary beast Hope itll never die

[@Michael-vf6zb]

Hopefully with the BSEL tape mod, yes?

[@ristekostadinov2820]

I had 8600 GT and AMD Athlon 4800 X2

[@emp.splash]

Always loved how these cards looked with that single slot cooler.

[@bojinglebells]

the sound, however... I was quick to install an aftermarket cooler on my 8800GT, brought temps and noise way down and allowed for a hefty overclock.

[@Pidalin]

but I didn't like how it sounded :-D but in that time, it was pretty easy and cheap buy some better cooler for GPU, today it's completely different situation

[@MrYuck-ec5do]

This was my first big pc purchase ever, and the card lasted me forever. Good times!

[@ChrispyNut]

@@Pidalin it's not hard to pick up 3rd party coolers for new cards, they still use the same through hole spacings that they've used for years (at least I've not heard that change). Certainly easier than getting a new card to put the cooler on :'{

[@Pidalin]

@@ChrispyNut But sellers today mostly completely don't have VGA coolers, it's more and more rare find such specific stuff in shops.

[@badass6300]

Ah yes, the good old days where you'd do high-end PC gaming with a 200$ GPU and you'd get double the performance every 2 years or so. That's when PC was truly master race. 2003-2012.

[@Schule04]

High end would have been 8800 GTX or Ultra

[@badass6300]

@@Schule04 I said high-end gaming, not high-end GPU, but the 8800 GTX and ultra were just 10-20% better than the 8800 GT, so they were so not worth it, especially the ultra. The 8800 GTS 512 was a better option than both, still 330$.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

"Buy a $200 GPU every other year" was basically a religion back then and even before 2003. Not only has it gotten more expensive the advice given approximates getting into a securities market.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Erh! THEY did say x86 gaming was dead around 2010!

[@dallesamllhals9161]

@@Schule04 :-( You don't remember BANG for BUCK x86 gaming do ya'? Horrible times we live in ;-)

[@ksp1278]

I had two 8800 GTS 512 in SLI in my gaming rig in late 2007 combined with a Core 2 Quad QX9650, 8Gb RAM and dual 10k RPM hard drives. What a beast system that was. In fact I still have the PC and its still usable for basic uses (Internet etc)

[@NathanChisholm041]

Sound like a sweet setup!

[@F1Jackman]

But can it run Chrome?

[@ksp1278]

@@F1Jackman lol. Yes, no problems with chrome. In fact my parents still use a computer with the slightly lower spec Q9550 CPU and 8Gb RAM for their Internet needs.

[@ChrispyNut]

Wow, rare to see people who bought the right 8800 GTS (512MB) rather than the very wrong 320/640MB).

[@brettwebb6789]

@@ChrispyNut Didn't the 512 version come out more than a year after the 320 and 640 versions? Kind of expected that people wouldn't make the "right" choice, when it wouldn't exist for another year... I mean, with that logic, people who bought the 512 version of the GTS are kind of stupid for not just waiting for the RTX 3080 🤨

[@monham5041]

I still have one of these cards. What a blast from the past. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane

[@philscomputerlab]

I sold mine, had a Zotac AMP!

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

When XFX made Nvidia GPUs....

[@jangelelcangry]

It's like watching RGinHD's Recent Radeon-looking Gtx 1060.

[@oliknow]

you mean Cards? The GPU is always from nVidia

[@Sharpless2]

they still, to this day, design cards.

[@Mr_Meowingtons]

remember running 2 of them in SLI back in the Day playing World of Warcraft with my OC Q6600 at 3.0Ghz back when SLI worked..

[@spazjackrabbit61]

8800 gt and 9800 gt are such a timeless video cards!

[@2Plus2isChicken2013]

I never had an 8800GT but I did have a 9800GT, which if I recall correctly was essentially the same GPU. I bought it to upgrade from a 7600GT and it really was a nice upgrade.

[@raresmacovei8382]

It was the same GPU on a die shrink, from 90nm to 65nm if I'm not mistaken. Plus a slightly improved media engine.

[@jangelelcangry]

This GPU was quite popular due to being a long lasting one IIRC.

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea and do you remember all the similar versions of this card, like 9800 GT, 9800 GTS, 9800 GTX...

[@MrKillswitch88]

I believe the G92 was in production in some form or another for what six years which is insane how long it lasted.

[@jangelelcangry]

@@philscomputerlab Yeah. Those were great too.

[@thedutchgulcher4750]

@@philscomputerlab don't forget the gts 250

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

@@MrKillswitch88 It called GeForce 250. 8)

[@colinstu]

I remember when this card came out, was a tremendous launch. $200, totally beat the 8800 GTS 320/640MB, traded blows or even beat the 8800 GTX (plus it was WAY cheaper than that, and ran cooler / sucked less power). Anyone clinging to previous generations had to dump them and get on this card asap. Was a very cool time. And then Nehalem was released a year later which wiped the floor when it came to anything CPU related. Truly exciting times.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

HEY! 768MB VRAM was the shit! OH! Back to good ol' 512...

[@scroopynooperz9051]

Sad we cant emulate that kind of excitement and generational leaps anymore :(

[@PabloB888]

Most games run only marginally better on GTX, but at higher resolutions + MSAA 8800GT was clearly vram and bandwidth limited. www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/610/cod4_1920.jpg

[@colinstu]

@@PabloB888 also gotta remember, very few were running very high resolutions in 2007. Whole lot of 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1600x900, etc. No shit the GTX came up on top at higher resolutions, but for 80% of the gamers out there, and especially at 1/3 the price... the 8800GT was a no brainer.

[@PabloB888]

@@colinstu You arnt wrong, because in 2007 many people were indeed still using CRT's with something like 1280x1024, but if you were buying something new, then 900-1050-1080p monitors were the most popular choice. Maybe they were still selling monitors with lower resolutions back then, but in my PC store I could only choose from 900-1050-1080p, and they were even selling 1440/1600p monitors already. Yes, 8800GT was much better performance / value choice, but people like me had no choice to buy 8800GT, because this card launched many months later. Personally I would still buy 8800Ultra even if 8800GT would be already available back then, because I wanted additional performance at higher resolutions and I could easily afford 8800Ultra anyway. www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/605/bioshock_1600.jpg I remember playing bioshock at max DX10 settings on my 8800Ultra without any problems, but looking at these results I'm not so sure I would be happy with 8800GT, because there's a clear difference between solid 60fps and sub 60fps.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

I wish we still had single slot high end cards.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Huh? Late 2007 Cheap ass! ;-D

[@ambigousBarrel]

Had a PNY 8800GT back in 2008 loved it! Then it burnt out and I got a PNY 9800GT for the same price (iirc it was like £99.99p new from a retailer called PC World) loved these cards! Looking back I would probably have got a better card if I looked out for a dual slot cooler one but still great times! :D Thanks for the trip down memory lane it really was an awesome time! :D

[@TehPlayer14]

I've bought a Vista prebuilt with 9500 GT back in time... It was enough to provide gaming for me

[@philscomputerlab]

Nice! Yea if you play at lower resolutions than 1080p and lower details it will be fine.

[@funghazi]

​@@philscomputerlab A lot of us were still on squareish monitors in 2007, it was a beast at resolutions like 1280x1024.

[@cesaru3619]

teddy bear phil!, finally you're back to retro videocard reviewing.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

How can he not?

[@BastetFurry]

Retro video card.. feels like i used a similar one just yesterday. ^^' Now benchmarking an ET4000, that would be retro... :D

[@mrmerlin6287]

Had mine since I was around 16, still going strong!

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Had just built an AMD K6-200Mhz with a NON 3D Tseng Labs ET6000 GFX-card at your age! Spoiled brat :-D

[@mrmerlin6287]

@@dallesamllhals9161 I remember a lot of my friends were saving up for their first cars back then, and I was there scrimping and saving for a PC, half a lifetime later and I'm still doing the same thing! The 8800 GT still gets played on on atleast a weekly basis haha.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Great video. Most people didn't have 1080p monitors in 2007. A google search tells me that the most popular monitor resolution in 2007 was 1024×768. (Over 50% market share.) A 1024x768 lcd monitor was what I had then and the 8800 series kick ass in those days.

[@philscomputerlab]

Ahh that makes sense! I believe I had a 1280x1024 monitor around the time I had a 7800 GT, so yea, 1920x1080 was a bit of a poor choice to be honest.

[@raysmith5124]

@@philscomputerlab i typically run mine either 1200 x1024 or 1600 x 1200 at 75 & 60 mhz respectively . on my P4 winxp running need for speed under ground with everything maxed out detail wise @ 1200 x1024 she hovers between 35 & 45fps depending on traffic & your speed due to motion blur adding load i guess without over clocking mine is 256mb version .

[@IronicTonic8]

I had an 8800M in a Core 2 Duo laptop, it was actually based on the 9600 GT graphics chip and it handled most games pretty well. I was thrilled when I bought it because I was using an aging Athlon XP system with a 6800GT at the time lol.

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Ah! Now THIS is A GPU people can buy easily.

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

@@UserUser-zc6fx O_O You're a GENIUS!

[@ricardobornman1698]

Ohh, I had two of those in SLI. Loved these cards!

[@philscomputerlab]

Very cool!

[@GTXDash]

I still have my original 8800GT, and going by memory, all games that came out when this card was new (except for Crysis) all ran at 60fps at high settings, including Bioshock. And that's because back then 1080p was considered to be a very high resolution. Most of us played at 1024 x 768 on CRTs or 720p on 16:9 LCDs (or 800p on 16:10).

[@Jtwizzle]

I got the 256MB model. It did well and played pretty much anything I threw at it on 1680x1050 or 1280x1024. eVGA model with lifetime warranty, as well!

[@dredsirius]

I had the exact same card. So many memories from it, I rmemeber saving and upgrading my old Dell from a 7600 to this and adding and extra Ram to get 512mbs. I was flying and running EVERYTHING!

[@drupiROM]

I was on an Iiyama 19" 1280x1024 monitor back then. So that was the "1080p" experience back then. As 1680x1050 was the equivalent of 1440p today. At least that is how i remember it :)

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea that's a fair comment, I should take this into consideration and maybe test at a more appropriate resolution, or include a few games with resolution scaling.

[@blackeagle238]

I got this very XFX card as an upgrade to a Fujitsu-Siemens prebuilt. Massive upgrade on the ATi X700SE that was in it before. And I did play Crysis on it, just at 1280x1024. ;) Great video!

[@Mattsana]

Such lovely nostalgia. I remember having two of these bad boys in the Dell XPS 630i system. I was so excited about that system when I was 20 haha. Fun times!

[@thundereagle4130]

What I always liked about the 8800GTX is the fact other brands just put a sticker of their own brand on de cooler with CGI monster/girl and called it a day. On a lot of GTX8800 from brands like MSI, Gigabyte and Asus you can still find the original Nvidia stickers underneath.

[@mesterak]

Nice job as always Phil!

[@linuxknight]

I had an 8800GT for quite a while. Ran it with an i5 661, then an i7 870 (not 8700, still first gen Core series). My wife's hand-me-down rebuilt PC also had another 8800GT at the time, so for a while we had them running in both our rigs. It could run games of appropriate era nicely, but newer stuff, it would struggle.

[@ching-chenhuang8119]

Yeah, I bought my 8800GT back in late 2007, actually the first display card I bought with my own money, because I began to work and I had income......and yes I bought this card pretty much for Crysis, since back then it only had PC version, not yet available on Xbox 360. And I think that's pretty much of it, I played games like Far Cry 2, Bioshock, etc on Xbox 360, I certainly wouldn't think of play those games on PC unless they are retro PC games. Anyway I still used this card for nearly 10 years, until MS decided to end support of Windows Vista, so I decided to assemble a new PC, however I still keep this card, after all I used this card, I won't sell it.

[@savage-goose]

These cards were awesome... run two of them in SLI you were a boss. :) I remember when these came out.

[@sly_botts1189]

I bought this card for my first dual core build in 2008. I had an evga 8800gt sc version. It cost me around 250 CAD at the time. I used it until around 2011-12 when I switched to a gtx 560 ti. The 8800gt sc ran most of my win vista/ win 7 era games at 1440x900 on med to high setting 30-60fps steady. Yes even Crisis! It was a good card.

[@MrNightro]

Had a pair of these in SLI upgraded with the dual orb coolers, 3rd part aluminum heatsinks for the Vram, an overclocked Q6600 with a custom made water cooling loop while running around with Captain Price & Ghost in Call of Duty.

[@xBruceLee88x]

I got mine free from a thrown out dell xps. Did the oven trick and got it running. Added a larger aftermarket cooler. Worked well for many years. Still have it laying around somewhere though I had to take the cooler off for another gpu

[@DeViLzzz2006]

Flashed an 8800 GT to a 9800 GT. Also know I have one in a system right now with a Q6600. I had another and still think I have it. So much tech / electronics around the house I can't keep track of it all. Thanks for another wonderful video btw.

[@joeconti2396]

Have an 8800 GTS in a retro build that I need to finish.

[@silviocesarsilvaoliveira]

It seems to me that from now on good intermediary option seems to me to be windows 7 for retro gaming !!!! Retro video from Phil == happy!! Friday!!!😀😀😀

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea you get all the DX10 and 11 support and don't have to use Vista LOL

[@silviocesarsilvaoliveira]

@@philscomputerlab that's sure LOL

[@Gruntos]

I still use my 8800 ultra on a quad extreme 9650 works fine even with windows 10. Great card

[@prozzac85]

I skipped the 8800 GT and went for the 8800 GTS 512 instead. That was an awesome card! Overclocked good to :) It was a great upgrade from my 8800 GTS 320, and it lasted me until the Radeon 4870 came out, and besides a 1070Ti, I've been in the red camp ever since.

[@evilpablo84]

Phil, I love your videos!

[@Crashoverride1234]

Beautiful card. I just got the XLR8 PNY one. I can’t wait to put it in a Windows XP gaming machine.

[@Ne0LiT]

Man I had the GTS 8800 and an E6750 to accompany it, holy shit it feels like it was yesterday when I used to game on that, but it has been over 10 years now, lmao... I actually have a friend who on his desktop PC still has a 8800 GT inside, but then again, his laptop is running an rtx 2060, soo yeah, lmao

[@r.x.k8004]

A couple of weeks ago, my aunt gave me an old computer. It has a Core2Duo E7300 and GT8600gt 512mb. It had 2 gb DDR2 so I upgraded it with another ram unit. In XP the performance is fine, and in 7 is even better in some areas. My younger brother also plays Minecraft online in that thing and runs smoothly. What a surprise.

[@sburton015]

I guess this is kindof like the configuration of my older gaming PC, however, I have it with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 cpu that I overclocked to 3.26 Ghz, with 4 gb ddr2 ram at 960 mhz, and a GTX 570 graphics card. Seems to do well with older games, like from 2014 or earlier.

[@WolfmanDude]

I installed the same exact card only a few days ago! Rest of the system is very modern. I rarely do gaming, its mostly a workstation for CAD. I am only instested in 2000s source gaming (Half Life, Portal, TF2) so this card was a perfect choise for me!

[@johnmikitanov]

Damn,had the exactly the same card,as others stated,was really decent back then. Oh,and nice video :)

[@antdude]

I still have and use mine (EVGA GeForce 8800 GT; 512 MB of VRAM)!

[@Mange070]

I still have my 8800 GT from Leadtek in a box, together with a 8800 GTS 512, 2 8800 GTX and a 8800 Ultra. All still work fine.

[@HaloXeon]

I believe I had this exact card back in 2008. It failed within a few months with graphical artefacts. Quickly replaced it with an MSI NX8800GT 512MB which lasted me four years before I upgraded again.

[@ChrispyNut]

That was the exact same model I had. Apart from the noise the single-slot cooler ensured, was a great card, especially when I evetually wet 3rd party cooler.

[@Nightmare78hAlo]

Mine melted after 3 (maybe 4) years , had a 8800 GTX 768 MB, thing would hit some crazy temperatures even with frequent cleanings and changing the paste once. I actually remember being let down, expecting it to run Crysis well consideirng the price it had at the time, but then it of course turned out we needed to wait several more GPU generations for Crysis to become playable at 60 fps on high/very high setting in 1080p. In general honestly i don't have many fond memories of this GPU as others are sharing in the comments, the thing aged badly rather fast from my memories and it's still the only GPU that died on me due to heating issues.

[@ElSelcho77]

I've still got this exact model upstairs in the attic. Ah, the memories.

[@unitedfools3493]

Provided you can use the fan headers, you can get a much nicer video card by removing the shroud and fans and then zip tying a couple of 80 or 92mm Noctua fans to the heat sink. Then attach them to the card's fan header. This actually goes for most/all air cooled video cards, they will be significantly cooler and/or quieter, but in this case you really don't want to be using those centrifugal fans unless you have to because of case air flow.

[@hughjanus2465]

still got my 8800GT :) i love the peeps that do the future proofing tho, buys 2080Ti for almost $2000 months later buys 3080 for $2000 and 2 months later buys 3090 just makes me smile, btw if u started with a 1080Ti you thought you were improving your gaming experience but in reality nothing was improved in any of the games u played, i have a 980Ti and see no reason to upgrade but will prob get a 1080Ti eventually unless something else like a 3060Ti is cheaper but no rush

[@kyles8524]

lol I literally just bought this video card for 10 bucks on ebay for a retro build with my 15 other 8800 series cards lol, this card actually outperforms a ddr3 version of the gt 730 by almost double in heaven benchmark

[@bogdanbosiokovic8858]

Still have my 9800GT 1GB by Gainward and it just keeps working! aside from it being a 2008/9 card i never had any issue with it! I might re use it now and then for testing motherboards and some potential 1366 build..

[@Wushu-viking]

Thumbs up! Memories... Back to better days for PC gaming. Got my 8800 GT in 2008. When prices had dropped. Remember paying about $190 for a 1GB model (2-slot Gainward model with a better cooler). About the platform in use here. What many people don't know, is that with Sandy/Ivy Bridge, its possible to OC a non-K CPU (within limits) on a P or Z board. Multiplier is not unlocked on the CPU, but the vanilla 3770 can do up to 43x = 4.3@1-core, and 4.1@4-core. Still +400Mhz for free. I would not recommend stock cooler for that, but a cheap 92mm tower cooler is enough to keep it below 80c @stress. And the 3570 can do 42x max as shown here. The stock cooler should be is enough for this i5 @4.0>4.2 GHz (but it will go to 80+c on stress load @4.0 with normal ambient temps.). Almost no point in going much higher than the non-K OC anyway. From 4.4 GHz the 3770K temps are hard to keep within 2-digit numbers, even with great cooler on, due to needed voltage and the bad heat desipation design under the IHS. However, if Delidded with the best paste (or LM), many 3770K and 3570K can reach 5 GHz.(with enough Voltage, normally 1.4)

[@PhAyzoN]

Wonderful card for it's time. I spent a little extra and got the GTS 512 instead of the GT. Little bit more performance, and dual slot kept it cooler and quieter. As an added bonus, it had no issues overclocking to 9800GTX+ clocks down the road!

[@explorer9049]

all of these era games (Dead Space for example) were commonly played on 720p to 900p displays (Dead Space is 720p 30 fps on ps3) to achieve high frame rates on these era graphics cards, i remember playing bioshock on the geforce 8600 gt in medium settings on my old samsung c450 720p tv, with fraps i was getting 70-102 fps and counter strike global offensive before it got optimized with 80+ fps. remember these were the days when 1080p was considered very demanding and high quality.

[@Scrawlerism]

Super interesting stuff!

[@philscomputerlab]

Glad you think so!

[@yakacm]

Great video like usual, love the motherboard.

[@00Klingon]

I had a Mac Pro 3,1 dual xeon system that came with an 8800 GT 512mb card. I used to run Windows XP (later Windows 7) through boot camp just to play games on it. Good memories playing Crysis and HalfLife 2 on it. The GPU eventually died and I replaced it with an AMD HD 5870 which was a huge upgrade. Worked out great until I tried playing Carmageddon Reincarnation on it and it was a complete slide show.

[@Rainbow__cookie]

i been waiting for this video i was compairing 8800 gt/gts/gtx

[@savage-goose]

The single slot cards were the ones to get! Ah the good old days

[@KaosII1968]

I had 2 of the XFX 8800 GT's ..came with King Kong game .....Also had 2 Zotac Amp! 8800gt's. Running on an EVGA sli board with an Intel E8400 @ 4.1 Ghz ...... the good old days of not spending 3 grand on a build. Still have these systems in the basement gathering dust in old Silverstone cases ..When they made great cases.

[@H31MU7]

had two of these in sli on a striker extreme mb back in the day, absolute beast!

[@perkyzombie]

I had the EVGA 8800 GT which I bought in 2008 with my new Asus Core 2 Duo running Vista. However, I stopped gaming that fall and the system sat mostly ideal for a couple years. I got about two years of use out of the card before it died and replaced it with a, then new, GTX 670 in 2012... that was a good upgrade.

[@bhk2006]

I got one of these beasts in a Dell XPS pre-built that was on sale in early 2008. Played the hell out of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on it. Considering that Dell has a bad rep for their PC pre-built machines, this one was pretty good (but terrible to upgrade with all the proprietary parts). Glad to see that this workhorse is still remembered fondly.

[@cromulence]

Well, it's finally happened. This card was king of the hill when I built my first proper new machine. Seeing it on a retro channel now makes me feel old :( The 8 series cards were fantastic and held their own for ages. I remember being super lucky and snagging an XFX Alpha Dog Edition 8800GS 384MB for £67.50 back in September 2008. My first brand new build; a Q6600, 4GB RAM, and an 8800GS. So many good memories playing stuff like CoD: MW2 when it came out (arguably the pinnacle of the series before it totally went to crap), Battlefield Heroes, Left 4 Dead 2, and other for hours and hours on end during the summer holidays.

[@peterharband326]

Good to see u back buddy.

[@igorbog88]

I bought an ATi 4830 a year later instead of the nVidia 8800gt, it was faster in most games as well. It was Sapphire. The price was like the cheapest 8800GT cards

[@ShinyHelmet]

I still have a 1GB version of the 8800GT running in an old test box I use for linux distros. It's a dual slot card with loads of metal heat plates on it for cooling. I stuck an old Zalman cooler I had on it as a replacement for the noisy default fan. Even got a DVI-HDMI adapter so I can use it on my current monitor.

[@sly_botts1189]

I had the evga superclocked version of this card. Bought it in 2009 and it served me well for 3 years.

[@roveradventures]

Great card to build a retro gaming pc or even a starter pc to learn on, good way to learn overclocking on 775 or AM2/AM2+ architecture.

[@moleyboy9650]

I still remember going from my 7900gs to the 8800 gtx and the jump was amazing in power. Awesome card.

[@AnalogDude_]

i still have my ASUS EN8800GT (ASUS EN8800GT/HTDP/1G/A ) laying around in a drawer, playing Assassins Creed 1 & 2, Mafia, ...

[@earthborn8385]

I still have that exact same XFX card. After many years the fan pegged to 100%. I put an Arctic passive/silent cooler on it, and it still runs great!

[@wishusknight3009]

I have an 8800GS 384mb and a set of GTS 512mb cards to complement my 8800 gt 512 mb and 256mb versions.. It is neat to see the segmentation of all the G92 family. And it was neat to see the differences between the 256 and 512mb version of the GT. Your 8800GT runs slightly higher clocks than mine as well, so you have a good one.

[@VdWck]

I had one, with just 256MB of memory. Played Oblivion and Far Cry 2 with it. Great memories.

[@matthewplehn4271]

great selection of games to test...especially dead space..love that game

[@Berg085]

I had an 8800GS. I think for a time the 8800 series got the most performance improvements from SLi'ing them.

[@Rymante]

I think I still have an 8800 GT somewhere in my closet, no idea if it still works. I remember being really happy with the performance upgrade from the 6800 series card I had before, huge jump in FPS at the time.

[@mathieuwiersma1660]

i bought a 8600GT card after my X1950Pro died, man what a sh*t card that was lol. It lacked so much in comparison to the high end. While the 9600GT was basically a high end card in itself with 256bit GDDR and the GTX 260 being a lightly crippled GTX 280. Couple of years later i got a GTX260 and that was a beast with 448bit GDDR

[@itzamedave6242]

Loved these and the 2x 9800gt I had in SLI in 2009 in my i7 x58 rig which I still have in 2021 😁

[@O.Shawabkeh]

The X58 is a legendary platform Keep it for a WinXP build

[@itzamedave6242]

@@O.Shawabkeh because it has 12gb of triple channel memory I run windows 7 ultimate 64 😁

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

I have one of those with my Q6600. It was a wndows 7 computer from 2007 - 2013, when it became a hackentosh. Now in 2021, it became a win 10 computer when snow leopard became an unsupported OS

[@micksterminator3]

An Intel core 2 duo e6600 and EVGA 9800gt superclocked was my first decent gaming pc I put together. It was ages better than the 2004ish Dell Dimension with Intel Celeron integrated graphics that we had at the time.

[@mikek92]

I still have a 9800 GT 512mb card (the 8800 GT replacement) . Got it from evga as a replacement . Way better than the card I had ! Batman AA ran butter smooth@1080p on my 50" plasma TV . That was before the "PhysX patch" that rendered your previous saves useless ...

[@SUCRA]

I remember this period in video card history very dearly. At this time I upgraded video cards as fast as I changed clothes. I started with an 8800 gts (320mb), got an 8800 gt with 256mb from evga, than an Alpha Dog with 512mb like yours and finaly an 8800 gts with 512mb which I have to this day! Great video Phil, thanks again! Oh, one thing, isn't 1080p a bit much for a video card from this period? Maybe 1680x1050 and 1280x1024 were more popular at the time?

[@philscomputerlab]

Yes agreed on 1080p being too much. I could have included some sort of resolution scaling. I will keep it in mind for future videos :)

[@kenneth6731]

I still have one, and it still handles anything I through at it. It's still a good card!

[@attel2091]

Aah my first high-endish card. Was a beast after Geforce 6600 non GT. Used it from 2008 till 2012. It was a rare sight to play at 60fps back then or sometimes even at 30fps but it didn't matter that much on a CRT

[@NightMotorcyclist]

I remember when these first came out. I was frantically searching my local Best Buy stores for it as they were selling the card for $200 (BFG Gaming 8800 GT) and finally found one on the second day of searching. I still have the card right now and it was able to play most of my games at a good frame rate at high settings on 1280x1024 (CRTs allowed for different resolutions without image degradation). Crysis ran pretty decently at medium settings. While I restored mine back to stock, I ran it with a Zalman cooler for the majority of the time I have used it. Then I upgraded to a 7900GT a year and a half later which was then bumped up to a GTX 260 Core 216 a year after that. All of this was on an AMD Athlon 64 3000 which was then upgrade to an Opteron dual core.

[@g00b3r7]

I have this card hanging on my graphics card wall. It was such a game changer for me, coming from a 7950GT.

[@candidosilva7755]

I had that excactly model but mine was the alpha dog edition. Great gpu some years back.

[@HeyImGaminOverHere]

I had 2 different PNY 8800GT cards and both died RIGHT AFTER the warranty expired. That was highly agitating... But man the 8800GT held up performance wise for a long time.

[@dizzykwalla1198]

OMG I remember buying this card and playing COD 4 Modern Warfare for the first time and it was amazing!

[@enricofermi3471]

Keep in mind that at the time, 1920x1080 was like 4K in 2017-2018, singular percentages of the gaming setups. The more popular options were 1280x1024 as typical, 1024x768 on the slightly lower side. There were also 1600x1200 and 2048x1536 high-end CRT systems, but just like FullHD, those were few and far between. So in a more typical scenario, 8800GT(S) was sufficient for anything but literal Crysis. If you had one of these, the next time you might have wanted to upgrade was when GTX28(5) launched.

[@maverick6c631]

1 gb midrange DirectX11 gpu from 2010-2011 became the best value performance in the PS3 era (500 mb VRAM console)

[@Crylhound]

I had one of these. It was originally from XFX but a web shop mounted some sort of Accelero S1 cooling to it. I think I have used it together with a Q6600. The GPU was not happy with running crysis all day long 😆

[@BenWillock]

My first ever graphics card was a Zotac 9800gt (which I think is the same as the 8800gt?) Played so much modded Oblivion on that thing ^^

[@GoldSrc_]

This was such a terrific card back in the day, I wanted one so bad but all I could get was a 8400GS lol, certainly not enough for Crysis but I was still playing Doom 3.

[@arthurmann578]

I still have my 8400GS in an old Pentium system that I use every now and then! When you're poor, you just take what you can get and are happy with it! Hell...I am STILL poor and was lucky enough that someone had dumped and old ASUS system with an i7-920 and a GTX 780ti on my front lawn! After much work and MUCH cleaning, I got it going and now I am happy that I can actually play No Man's Sky on high and even ultra settings! That was a "gift from the gods" for me! It even has 8Gb of decent brand memory and a Corsair 850 watt PSU in it! To me, this was like finding gold AND on my own front lawn! 😁 P.S. They were also "nice enough" to dump a Gateway 19" LCD monitor with it too! I guess that they just wanted me to have a nearly complete system. One side panel of the computer case is missing, but no big deal! Beggars can't choosers, after all! 😂😂

[@GoldSrc_]

@@arthurmann578 I wish I still had my 8400GS, but it died years ago.

[@arthurmann578]

@@GoldSrc_ I was over clocking mine just last night when I said to myself "Maybe I best not do this." 🤔

[@harryshuman9637]

This was a dope card, wish I waited a couple of months back in 2007 instead of buying my 8800 GTS

[@lagginswag]

Have that same xfx alpha dog 8800gt, got it in a 20 dollar optiplex 755 in like 2016, q6660 tape modded to 3.0ghz, 4gb ddr2 corsair xms2. It was dead but I oven revived it but it would still black screen. I was too lazy to re do the oven method so I just unplugged the fan and let it heat up with an infrared therm pointed at the back. Needless to say that didnt work out as planned and its now a paper weight/ decoration. Replaced it with a 7750 😅