Asus EN8600 GTS GeForce 8600 GTS Video Card

Asus EN8600 GTS & Test Setup

We covered the launch of the 8600GTS back in April for those of you that need a refresher.

The Asus EN8600GTS in our possession is 100% reference, coming with a GPU clock speed of 675 MHz, 1.45 GHz Shader clock, and 2.0 GHz memory. The 256 MB of memory rides a bus that is but 128 bits wide, yet is still capable of 32 GB/s transfer rate. As you can see in the photo above, we have the Stalker sticker attached to the heat sink on the card. The rest of the card is, again, the reference card with the standard green PCB and the PCI-E power connector.

Test Setup

Video Card Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
Motherboard	Intel 975XBX2KR
Memory	2GB OCZ Gold 1000
Hard Drive	Western Digital Raptor 74GB
Cooling	AeroCool Xfire Heatsink
Power Supply	Silverstone 850W
Operating System	Windows XP Professional SP2

All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows XP Professional build 2600 with Service Pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running. ATI CATALYST 7.7 Drivers were used on all of the ATI video cards.. Forceware 162.18 drivers were used for NVIDIA GeForce 7000 series cards. Forceware 162.2 drivers were used for GeForce 8800 series cards.