The eVGA 8800GT 256MB Edition card is very thin in its design and can easily fit into a single slot in your case. I believe eVGA had a lot to do with the design of this card as Andrew Han has his hand in many of the designs and naming conventions that NVIDIA uses. One excellent thing is the lower power requirements of the 8800GT over its bigger brother the Ultra. The Ultra is a power hog and requires the use of two six-pin connectors to operate properly, the GT on the other hand only needs a single connector and only 105W of power. Unlike many cards we have seen in the past the 8800GT has nothing left uncovered from top to bottom of the card, no capacitors, no silicon, no nothing on the front side of the card where a plastic shield covers it completely. This makes for a very clean look and makes for less damage by accident to the capacitors when installing the card into your system. This was an excellent idea that will save Murphy’s Law from happening to novice users.

Overclocked right out of the box, the eVGA 8800GT Edition 8800GT has a core clock of 650MHz, an 900MHz memory speed and has 1625 Pixel Shaders along with 256Mb of GDDR3 memory running at a speed of 1.2ns. The card supports the latest Direct-3D and DX10 API extensions as well as the new PCIe 2.0 standard that will supposedly double the bandwidth of information with boards that support that feature as well. The card is also much smaller in size than the 8800 and much shorter as well, which will make installation into smaller systems much easier. Two of these cards in SLI mode will still leave plenty of room for air flow between the two cards unlike a pair of Ultra's that not only run much hotter, also leave almost no room for air flow. The card supports resolutions up to 2560x1600 for those that may have a monitor that supports that, but most of us play our games at 1280X1024 or 1680X1050 so it should perform excellent at those resolutions. The 8800GT series in general will support resolutions of up to 2560X1600 via Dual-Link connections to monitors like the Dell 30’’, but that monitor cost more than most complete PC systems, making it a non reality for most of us.