Gainward Bliss 8800 Ultra

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Package

The package that comes with the 8800 Ultra is Gainwards standard well thought-out package including:

* Install Manual
* CyberLink PowerDVD
* CyberLink DVD Solution
* Driver Disk
* 2 x Dual molex to PCI-e 6 PIN power connectors
* 2 x DVI to VGA converter
* 1 x S-Video to Composite/Component cable


That's a pretty decent looking lot of hardware to go with this top-end card. However, on the games front I feel it's pretty severely lacking, especially after the excellent bundle that Sapphire and ATI managed to put together on the HD2900XT.

Specification

From Gainwards site:

Product Name: BP8800ULTRA-768-DD Barcode: 471846200-8576 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU Clockspeed: 612 MHz Memory: 768MB 0,8ns DDR3 Memory Clockspeed: 2160 MHz Pixels per clock (peak) : Bandwidth: Ramdac: 400 MHz Bus: PCI-Express Cooling: Fan (Two-slot) Video-Features: Component, S-Video & Composite Out Connectivity: Dvi + Dvi + Video-Out

And some more detailed specs:

NVIDIA® Unified Architecture * Unified shader architecture * GigaThread™ technology * Full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10 o Geometry shaders o Geometry instancing o Streamed output o Shader Model 4.0 * Full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline NVIDIA Lumenex™ Engine * 16x full screen anti-aliasing * Transparent multisampling and transparent supersampling * 16x angle independent anisotropic filtering * 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with anti-aliasing o 32-bit per component floating point texture filtering and blending * Advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data * Support for normal map compression * Z-cull * Early-Z NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ Technology * Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation * Simulate and render physics effects on the graphics processor NVIDIA SLI™ Technology1 * Patented hardware and software technology allows two GeForce-based graphics cards to run in parallel to scale performance and enhance image quality on today's top titles. NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD Technology2 * Dedicated on-chip video processor * High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration * Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing * HDCP capable3 * Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing * Noise Reduction * Edge Enhancement * Bad Edit Correction * Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) * High-quality scaling * Video color correction * Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support Advanced Display Functionality * Two dual-link DVI outputs for digital flat panel display resolutions up to 2560x1600 * Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz * Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution * NVIDIA nView® multi-display technology capability * 10-bit display processing Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ * Full DirectX 10 support * Dedicated graphics processor powers the new Windows Vista Aero 3D user interface * VMR-based video architecture High Speed Interfaces * Designed for PCI Express® x16 * Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory Operating Systems * Windows Vista /Windows Vista 64 * Windows XP/Windows XP 64 * Linux API Support * Complete DirectX support, including Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 * Full OpenGL® support, including OpenGL 2.0 1 - NVIDIA SLI certified versions of GeForce PCI Express GPUs only. 2 - Feature requires supported video software. Features may vary by product. 3 - Requires other compatible components that are also HDCP capable.