14 DAY TRIAL // Memory manufacturer Mushkin has announced its first graphics card design based on he G92 core, the GeForce 8800 GT HP Overclocked Edition. The new graphics card is an overclocked version of GeForce 8800GT that comes with some new changes, including a new and optimized cooling system.
Mushkin has rigged its new creation with a dual-slot cooler with a pretty interesting fan on top of it. The cooler is somewhat similar to the boxed fan shipped with the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, built according to the analogous principle. The memory chips are covered by the fan, but they don't feature the classical heatspreaders, although the graphics card wears the "overclocked" label.
Mushkin's tweaked version of 8800 GT operates at a stock core speed of 675 MHz, 112 stream processors with shader clocks of up to 1690 MHz. The 512MB GDDR3 memory has been overclocked to 1900MHz, 100 MHz higher than the reference model, which is not quite spectacular.
Nvidia's reference card comes with a stock core speed of 650MHz and 900MHz for the memory clock, close enough to the "overclocked version". The performance gain is set to a minimum (if ever), but let's admit that the cooler looks pretty interesting, and the green color will surely appeal to PC modders and system integrators.
The memory manufacturer's graphics card is situated below the offerings from other 8800GT-based video cards manufacturers. The graphics cards market is already saturated by graphics titans such as Asustek, MSI and Gigabyte, and many other manufacturers have been forced to quit. Crucial had its attempt at conquering the market some time ago, but its graphics products failed to even hit the market.
Mushkin's GeForce 8800 GT version might not be spectacular, but if the manufacturer will use its own memory chips on the graphics card, the results may exceed users' expectations. The card will come with a T-Shirt and an USB flash drive with the necessary drivers. It will be available later this month at an estimated price of $376.
