EVGA Finally Unveils its Overclocked 8800 GTX

If you remember, back in November 2006 one of the first 8800 GTX cards to come out was EVGA's redesigned 8800 GTX model. I say "redesigned" because although it followed the reference model and had the same PCB, the board came with a modified cooling system called ACS3. Because, at the moment, Nvidia didn't allow factory overclocked G80 based cards to be produced, the ACS3 version of the 8800 GTX had the same clocks as the reference model. But that didn't prevent EVGA's product from overclocking insanely.

Then December 2006 came and Nvidia changed its mind about the overclocking issue. In the last weeks factory overclocked 8800 cards started to show up, first XFX's models came out and later Sparkle announced its overclocked G80 cards. And since EVGA had a reputation for being a loved brand in the overclockers community, they too began to work on a factory overclocked G80 VGA board.

Almost 3 months passed from the launch of G80 and now EVGA announces that they have readied the factory overclocked 8800 GTX with ACS3 cooling system. The card has a working frequency of 626MHz for the core and 2.0GHz for the memory up from the default 575MHz for the GPU and 1.8GHz for the GDDR3. A second card based on ACS3 is the 8800GTS overclocked at 580MHz core and 1.7GHz memory. The cards will soon be available on stores with suggested retail price of $649.99 for the 8800GTX KO ACS3 and $479.99 for the 8800GTS KO ACS3.

While we know that ACS3 offers better cooling than Nvidia's reference model, EVGA wants to prove that it can also overclock its Nvidia cooled models. Two Superclocked models, with Nvidia standard cooling will also hit the market, the GeForce 8800 GTX Superclocked (P/N: 768-P2-N835-AR , 621MHz GPU/2.0GHz mem) and the GeForce 8800 GTS Superclocked (P/N: 640-P2-N825-AR, 576MHz GPU/ 1.7GHz mem).