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XFX GeForce 8800 GTS Video Card - Alpha Dog Edition, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC Game, 512MB DDR3, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, Video Card
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GeForce 8800 GTS Video Card - Alpha Dog Edition
Redefine your gaming reality with the XFX GeForce® 8800 GTS Alpha Dog Edition
512MB PCI Express graphics card featuring the world's first DirectX® 10 GPU
and a powerful unified architecture that delivers an incredibly true-to-life
gaming experience. Power through games at record speeds and charge through game
maps with vividly realistic, sun-up to sun-down HDR lighting effects while steering
clear of mind-blowing physics effects such as explosions, fire, and smoke. And
when you're not destroying the enemy, relax watching your favorite movies with
NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology.
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Call
of Duty 4: The Best Shooter of 2007!
"It's hard to fully appreciate the outstanding visuals found in
Call of Duty 4; that's because you're usually too busy concentrating on
the action. Once you jump into the game, you won't have another chance to
take in the finer details." - Travis Moses, gamepro.com 11/6/2007 |
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
This new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators
of the Callof Duty series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience
ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced
and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous
hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world.
As both a U.S. Marine and British S.A,S. soldier fighting through an unfolding
story full of twists and turns, players use sophisticated tehcnology, superior
firepower and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed,
accuracy and communication are essential to victory. The epic title also delivers
an added depth of multiplayer action providing online fans an all-new community
of persistenc, addictive and customizable gameplay.
Take advantage of this great offer! Buy this Video Card in a bundle
with a copy of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC Game!
Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is
compatible with this video card. For example, PCI aExpress video cards won't
work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa.
Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.
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Call
of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Locked and Loaded to accomplish the Mission
Armed with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern-day firepower, players
are transported to treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue
enemy group threatening the world. As both a U.S. Marine and British S.A.S.
soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, players
use sophisticated technology, superior firepower, and coordinated land and
air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy, and communication are
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NVIDIA
SLI (Scalable Link Interface)
NVIDIA SLI™ (Scalable Link Interface) technology is a revolutionary
approach to scalability and increased performance. NVIDIA SLI takes advantage
of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express™ bus architecture,
and features hardware and software innovations within NVIDIA GPUs (graphics
processing units) and NVIDIA nForce4 MCPs (media and communications processors).
Together the NVIDIA SLI patent-pending technologies work seamlessly to
deliver heart-pounding PC performance. And depending on the application,
NVIDIA SLI can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration
for unparalleled gaming experiences.
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NVIDIA
Unified Architecture
Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry,
vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering an incredibly
true-to-life 3D graphics.
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NVIDIA
Lumenex™ Engine
Support for 128-bit and 64-bit floating point HDR with up to 16x anti-aliasing
delivering vividly realistic lighting effects while obliterating ‘jaggies’.
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Microsoft
DirectX 10 Geometry Shaders
Dynamic geometry creation smoothes surfaces and enables incredibly detailed
environments, shadows, and effects.
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NVIDIA
Quantum Effects™ Technology
Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation deliver
amazing performance and visual effects such as smoke, fire, and explosions.
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Shader
Model 4.0 Technology
Get your box geared up for the future of games with blazing fast shader
performance and watch your characters sweat with Shader Model 4.0.
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NVIDIA
PureVideo HD Technology
Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing
an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™
HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies
with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality
movie playback and picture clarity.
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High
Dynamic Range (HDR)
High dynamic-range(HDR) lighting effects bring environments to life for
a truly immersive experience. It takes advantage of the subtle light,
texture, and color intricacies to create incredibly realistic environments.
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Windows
Vista Ready
Windows Vista is the first operating system to require a GPU (Graphics
Processing Unit) to realize the best experience possible.
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PCI Express
2.0 Support
PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate
from 2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance
boost to 5 GT/s is by far the most important feature of the PCI Express
2.0 specifications. It effectively increases the aggregate bandwidth of
a 16-lane link to approximately 16 GB/s. The higher bandwidth will allow
product designers to implement narrower interconnect links to achieve
high performance. (backwards compatible with PCI Express)
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Specifications
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Detailed Features
A Closer Look
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Features
- Full DirectX 10 Support
World's first DirecX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers
unparalleled levels of graphic realism and film-quality effects
- OpenGL 2.0 Optimizations and Support
Ensures top-Notch compatiblity and performance for OpenGL applications
- NVIDIA Lumenex Engine
Delivers stunning image quality and floating point accuracy at ultra-fastfrmae
rates
- NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable
a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU - all
while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI
- GigaThread™ Technology
Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent, simultaneous
threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation
shader programs.
- NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Technology
The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing
that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color,
and precise image scaling for movies and video.
Minimum System Requirements
- 1GB of system memory
- CD-ROM drive
- 50MB of available hard disk drive space for basic driver installation
- Microsoft Windows XP operating system
- PCI Express-compliant motherboard with one vacant PCI Express x16 slot
- Minimum of a 400 Watt power supply.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 22 Amp Amps.)
- Minimum 450 Watt for SLI mode system.
(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 24 Amp Amps.)
- An available 6 pin PCI-E power connector (hard drive power dongle to PCI-E
6 pin adapter included with card)
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Latest Owner Reviews
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| REVIEW BY: Reviewed
Sep 28, 2008 |
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| I bought this card when it was $320 and that was a steal, but now it's $175!!! I'm thinking about putting another one of these in my system for sli. Right now, my single card o\ced to 750mhz core, 1800mhz shader and 1200mhz memory runs every single game on all max, except for crysis, which its runs on all high 1280x1024 with 4x anti-aliasing. If you want a great graphics card that is insanely cheap and insanely fast, buy this one... you won't regret it. |
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| REVIEW BY: gradetsk Reviewed
Sep 20, 2008 |
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| I love this card I got it about 4 weeks ago and it plays all games wonderfully I can't wait to buy a second and sli it I got a 3d mark O6 score of 14406 and I can run crysis on high at 1680x1050@36 fps the benchmarks say and other than that all other games run well over 60fps I think unreal tournament runs about 80-100, but you got to remember this will give you a sufficient speed increase but, not an optimal one if you don't have a fast enough processor, I am using a q9450 so anything under q6600 I believe will probably bottleneck this cards performance a bit. |
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| REVIEW BY: green horn Reviewed
Sep 11, 2008 |
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| REVIEW BY: Anonymous Reviewed
Sep 05, 2008 |
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| great deal for the performance. I don't have pcie 2.0 but runs all my games great even on my crappy 4200x2 cpu. like alot of people I was sent company of heroes not cod4. support was good after two quick calls they sent cod4 out and I didn't have to RMA anything, got to keep coh too++ |
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| Hey... I bought this here in Denmark :) It totally kicks some a**... But i would like to know if i can put the XXX version or a Evga, Asus etc version in SLI. Now the stores only got the XXX, and the other brands :) |
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What You Should Know
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DVI: Digital Visual Interface! What
Is It?
The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a
video interface standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital
display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital
projectors. It was developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display
Working Group (DDWG). It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video
data to a compatible monitor or projector, and is partially compatible with
the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).
DVI represents a major improvement in image quality over the older VGA
standard.
The DVI interface uses a digital protocol
in which the desired illumination of pixels is transmitted as binary data.
When the display is driven at its native resolution, it will read each
number and apply that brightness to the appropriate pixel. In this way, each
pixel in the output buffer of the source device corresponds directly to one
pixel in the display device, whereas with an analog signal the appearance of
each pixel may be affected by its adjacent pixels as well as by electrical
noise and other forms of analog distortion.
Previous standards such as the analog VGA were designed for CRT-based
devices and thus did not use discrete time display addressing. As the analog
source transmits each horizontal line of the image, it varies its output
voltage to represent the desired brightness. In a CRT device, this is used
to vary the intensity of the scanning beam as it moves across the screen.
The two types of DVI interfaces are Single
Link and Dual Link. Following are the features and benefits of each:
Single Link - The Single Link interface is limited to a maximum pixel
clock of 165 Hz. It uses four (4) twisted pairs of wires (one each of Red,
Green, Blue and Clock). Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz.
Dual Link - The Dual Link interface is most common for today’s modern
LCD monitors. It provides three times as many pixels as the Single Link
interface. And its maximum clock may exceed 165 Hz. Dual Link uses six (6)
twisted pairs wires with two (2) each for Red, Green, and Blue, as well as
on pair for Clock. Dual Link’s maximum resolution is 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz.
When you use the Dual Link Interface you can use a longer cable because of
its higher bandwidth. Dual Link also provides HDCP support, which is
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 What Is DDC2B?
The Display Data Channel or DDC is a digital connection between a computer
display and a graphics adapter that allows the display to communicate its
specifications to the adapter. The standard was created by the Video
Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The purpose of this standard
is to define a communications channel between an electronic display (e.g.
CRT, LCD, etc. displays) and a host system. The channel may be used to carry
configuration information to enable ‘plug & play’ and allow optimum use of
the display. The channel may also carry display control information.
Today’s computing and consumer electronic
environments demands that systems offer user-friendly set-up. With the
growing popularity of intuitive and simpler software user interfaces, hardware
manufacturers are responding with plug-and-play systems and peripherals.
However, for the user to receive full benefit from these advances,
standardization is necessary. VESA, as the prominent standards organization
for graphics subsystems, has developed a communications channel between the
host and the display. This communication channel offers basic configuration
information plus a standard way of communicating advanced functionality.
The current version of DDC, called DDC2B,
is based on the I²C bus. This is a serial bus that allows multiple bus
masters, although DDC2B allows only one master – the graphics adapter. The
monitor (e.g. a CRT or LCD) contains a read-only memory (ROM) chip
programmed by the manufacturer with information about the graphics modes
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Dual Monitor
Technology
Few PC users have ever experienced the huge productivity boost that comes
from using multiple monitors on the same PC. Ironically, many of
today's PC have the capability already installed, and Windows (since 2000)
natively supports dual monitors. Configuring dual monitors is so easy: just use
the second video port (if there are two separate ports installed), or add a
second video card or better yet, a video card that has dual DVI ports.
Then plug in your second monitor, change a couple of simple Windows settings,
and you have double the Windows Desktop. This lets you have your
spreadsheet and email visible at the same time, or PowerPoint and Photoshop.
The combinations are endless. And since most of the overhead is
handled by the video card, there is little significant impact (if any) on
system performance. Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most
amazing productivity boosters you can add to your PC! Optionally, you can use a dual monitor stand and recover your workspace in the process!
Click Here To Find Video Cards - Look For Dual DVI/Dual Monitor Ready
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Advanced PC Build-It-Yourself Guide
Not too long ago one had to be eligible for the Genius IQ Club (Mensa)
in order to build a computer. That is no longer the case. Today’s computer
manufacturers have made it much easier for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer
to create a great system.
Click Here To Learn More »
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 PCI
Express 2.0 - High End Graphics Have Arrived
PCI Express Base 2.0 specification doubles the interconnect bit rate from
2.5 GT/s to 5 GT/s in a seamless and compatible manner. The performance
boost to 5 GT/s is by far the most important feature of the PCI Express
2.0 specifications. It effectively increases the aggregate bandwidth of
a 16-lane link to approximately 16 GB/s. The higher bandwidth will allow
product designers to implement narrower interconnect links to achieve
high performance while reducing cost.
A number
of optimizations and improvements have been made to the protocol and software
layers of the PCI Express architecture in the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification.
These include:
- Dynamic
link speed management – to control the speed at which the link is operating
- Link bandwidth
notification – to notify software (operating system, device drivers,
etc) of changes in link speed and width
- Capability
structure expansion – to expand the control registers to better manage
devices, slots and the interconnect
- Access
control services – optional controls to manage peer-peer transactions
- Completion
timeout control – to define a required disable mechanism plus related
optional enhancements
- Function-level
reset – optional mechanism to reset functions within a device
- Power
limit redefinition – to redefine slot power limit values to accommodate
devices that consume higher power
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What
is SLI Technology?
NVIDIA® SLI™ technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows
you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple
NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce® SLI
media and communications processor (MCP).
How Does SLI Technology Work?
Using proprietary software algorithms and dedicated scalability logic
in each NVIDIA graphics processing unit (GPU) and MCP, NVIDIA SLI technology
delivers up to twice the performance of a single graphics solution.
SLI GPU Graphics Cards
NVIDIA SLI GPUs deliver powerful, elegant and super-rich graphics
for games and other graphics-intensive applications. Combining two NVIDIA
SLI-Ready certified graphics cards (with the same GPU) in a single system
with an nForce SLI MCP results in up to double the graphics performance. NVIDIA SLI-Ready GPUs feature dedicated, built-in SLI hardware logic
and take advantage of the additional bandwidth of the PCI Express bus
architecture. Connected by the SLI connector (which ships with all SLI-Ready
motherboards), each GPU has a maximized connection pathway, and can leverage
the second card for reaching top-speed performances. SLI Technology can
scale both geometry and fill rate performance for multiple GPUs and output
in both digital and analog formats for the highest image quality.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR SLI READY VIDEO CARDS
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Will Your
Motherboard Support the Video Card You're Purchasing? Here's the Answer...
Before you
buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For
example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed
only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications
carefully or call us for expert advice.
Close-Up:
PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (PCI Express)
Check
your motherboard and make sure you are purchasing the correct cardbus
type.
There are 3 types of cardbus slots currently available:
PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 is compatible with PCIe slot)
PCI
- The most widely used I/O bus, it provides a shared data path between
the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and
RAID cards. Though limited in terms of performance, they are considered
the best value when you upgrade your video capabilities on a PC. The PCI
interface can be found and used in nearly any motherboard.
Click
here to view our selection of PCI Cards
AGP
- The AGP slot is next in line of higher graphic performance. It was designed
especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. It offers up to
8x improvement over a PCI card, is 32 bits wide and runs at 66 MHz. It
provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one
AGP slot is on the motherboard. The motherboard must be equipped with
an AGP bus slot for an AGP card to be compatible.(AGP 1x provided a data
transfer rate of 264 Mbytes/sec. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1
Gbyte/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.)
Click
here to view our selection of AGP Cards
PCI
Express - PCI Express is the newest technology that
is superior to both PCI and AGP, in terms of graphic performance. It offers
performance as much as 4x faster than the fastest AGP 8X slot. PCI Express
connections can support fast data transfer rates, which can be used to
connect high-speed devices such as high-end video cards. The slots come
in different variations and speeds, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. Presently,
most high-end motherboards meant for design, video production, or gaming
come with PCI express slots. To use a PCI Express card, your computer
must have at least one available PCI Express slot.
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here to view our selection of PCI Express Cards
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What's In The Box
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- XFX GeForce 8800 GTS Video Card
- Install Guide
- Drivers CD
- S-Video Cable
- DVI to VGA Adapter
- XFX GeForce 8800 GTS Video Card
Contents of package may vary from those pictured and stated here,
due to changes in manufacturer's specifications or merchandising.
Please check the product information carefully, items not included
may no longer be required.
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Manufactured by:
XFX - NVIDIA Authorized
Mfg Part No:
PVT88GYDF4
UPC No:
778656044609
Box Size:
( Length:
9, Width:
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13 )
Shipping Weight:
1.9000 pound(s)
Limited Warranty:
This product has a Lifetime Warranty.
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Limited Warranty: A full text version of the limited warranty
may be obtained by mailing a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
P450-8818
TigerDirect.com
Warranty Information
7795 W. Flagler St. Suite 35
Miami, FL. 33144
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