An inexpensive solution from NVIDIA - video adapterbased on the 8600 GT, it has long strengthened its position in the budget class in the market of our country. The fact is that the video card is in demand when building office solutions, multimedia centers and home computers for work. The characteristics of the video card, review, testing and feedback of owners will tell in this article about the device a lot of interesting.
Recently integrated video systemssignificantly increased in the world market, because in addition to supporting video on the motherboard, the technology should be implemented and the core of the CPU. If all these requirements are translated into a monetary equivalent, then it turns out that for an integrated video adapter it is necessary to pay about 5000 thousand rubles. Naturally, savvy users will have a desire to save on such expenses. The purchase of a video card based on NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT is just such a solution (the market price is 3000 rubles).
Unlike AMD's competitor products, thisthe video adapter has full support of the manufacturer, accordingly, work with new operating systems is guaranteed. Many owners in their reviews note that the graphics card is well defined at the level of drivers in Windows 10 (64-bit). This is a serious argument for all potential buyers.
And if the reader thinks that in front of hima weak representative of the budget computer market of video cards, he is very mistaken. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT video adapter pushed the newer chips only thanks to the manufacturer's policy: new technologies, increased graphics core frequency and so on. In fact, a representative of the budget class (albeit at low settings) is able to cope with many popular games. First of all, the guarantee of this is the technical characteristics of the video card:
Performance in games provides not onlybandwidth memory bus and the work of the graphics processor, as well as a set of proprietary technologies that are implemented at the hardware level in the "Geforce 8600 GT." And here there is something to be proud of:
However, when comparing the characteristics of a video card withthe current versions of the products, the user still does not find support for the digital output with streaming audio HDMI and a very popular DisplayPort interface. True, there is an optional implementation of HDCP, but its operation requires a special converter. Does not support the 8600 GT video adapter and textures with an indexed color palette, which is the reason for the inability of some new high-performance games.
Video card 8600 GT, presented in the budgetniche, can be not only under the logos of famous brands, as is often accepted. Demanded devices are sometimes delivered from the factory to the market, bypassing intermediaries. The purchase of a product under the NVIDIA logo guarantees the owner that before him is really an original video card that has not been finalized by anyone.
Judging by the numerous reviews of the owners,Performance - this is the main characteristic of the video card in the world market. And the original products of the manufacturer always have the most affordable price and decent quality. We suggest to get acquainted with the product more closely.
In the product from the manufacturer,video card based on the 8600 GT chipset, performance characteristics are considered to be maximally balanced for efficient operation in the normal mode. First of all, this is the noiseless operation of the device, which is provided by the proprietary cooling system from NVIDIA. However, according to the owners in the media, the graphics adapter has the ability to overheat when overclocking the graphics processor and memory bus.
The problem lies in the placement of the systempower management in the back of the PCB. Not only that the power supply circuits are not covered by the radiator, so they also transfer their heat to the radiator of the graphics chip. If you look at other NVIDIA 8600 GT products from other manufacturers, the user will find that the power controllers have transferred them to the front of the video card or have their own cooling system in the form of passive radiators.
As the owners of the original motherboards fromNVIDIA, for the 8600 GT chip overclocking is undesirable. There are many reasons for this. First, the manufacturer installed a regular cooling system, unable to create a more powerful airflow with a significant increase in the temperature of the GPU. In tests, increasing the core frequency by more than 3% leads to an increase in temperature followed by a reboot of the Windows system.
There are censures and installed memory moduleson the printed circuit board of the 8600 GT video adapter, which also have a response time limit of 1.6 nanoseconds, which significantly affects the data transfer rate between the video card and the motherboard bus during overclocking. Definitely - the cheapest solution in the budget niche under the NVIDIA logo is clearly not intended for overclocking.
The fastest video card based on the 8600 GT chip,whose price also beats records (2000 rubles), is considered a product of MSI. The well-known manufacturer completely changed the printed circuit board of the manufacturer NVIDIA (even the green color changed to red color). First of all, the power system was changed, the company's technologists installed their own PWM controllers and solid capacitors, thereby reducing heat generation. The memory modules were also replaced: the Samsung chips not only have a response time of about 1.2 nanoseconds, but also are capable of operating at higher frequencies.
Not the least role was played by the proprietary systemcooling manufacturer. A copper radiator with a large fan is quite capable of removing heat from the heating elements of the video card. It is worth noting that the manufacturer quite interestingly implemented the radiator mounting system. Clamping to the graphics processor is performed using a cross-shaped device behind the PCB, which is tightened by screws to the grille of the cooling system.
Many owners note that in the regular workthe MSI video adapter based on the NVIDIA 8600 GT chip demonstrates good results both in synthetic tests and in games. The budget class representative in low settings with a screen resolution of 1280x1024 dpi shows excellent results in Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, World of Tanks and many other similar games. Yes, increasing the quality of drawing will definitely lead to a drop in the performance of the 8600 GT, but it's still about a representative of the budget class, an analog of integrated solutions.
Do not forget about the overclocking potential,which the MSI representative is capable of. Memory shows stable performance at 1660 MHz (19% increase), and the graphics core behaves well within 650 MHz (20% gain).
Platforms with a turbine in the cooling system alwayswere effective in terms of video card performance, but clearly not in the budget class. The same manufacturer MSI tried to introduce to the market an overclocked system with an installed Twin Turbo cooler. The manufacturer has achieved results worthy: 700 MHz - the frequency of the graphics core and 1600 MHz - memory operation. However, all owners in their reviews note that further overclocking of the 8600 GT is impossible.
For the graphics core, this is the limit, after whichhe begins to show on the monitor artifacts (colored cubes), which hints to the user about the failure of the video card in the near future. And since the turbine is not capable of providing an increase in the potential of the video card by overclocking, there is no question of any water cooling system. This fact once again does not allow the device to leave the niche of the budget class. To improve the performance of this video adapter, many experts in their reviews generally recommend not to spend. If there is extra money, it is better to accumulate a higher-performance video adapter in a class higher.
Products based on the 8600 GT chipset are presentedmany well-known manufacturers who, competing with each other, tried to make their product affordable, quiet and with good technical characteristics for gaming applications. However, to disperse all market participants had to completely modify the power supply system on the PCB and replace the inefficient cooling system of NVIDIA with a cooler of its own design. There are also offers with a passive cooling system. Such solutions have not been overclocked and are positioned on the market as office products. Among the worthy video cards based on the 8600 GT chip, users in their reviews celebrate such brands: Gigabyte, ASUS, Gainward, Zotac, Palit and many other not less famous companies.
As you can see from the review, video cards based on the 8600 chipGT (512 MB) is too early to write off, because their technical characteristics still outperform most existing integrated platforms (all solutions to GMA 4000), which is 90% of the market. Yes, there are questions about overclocking efficiency, but we are talking about a budget-class representative whose requirements are very modest: minimum user costs when buying, displaying an image on the screen and supporting low-resource games. With these tasks, the video adapter on the base of the 8600 GT chip successfully copes.
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