The GeForce 8800 GT has been a hit now for some time though it's seen some tough competition from AMD with the 3870 and 3850, both continue to try and undercut each other in price cuts and in higher-clock speeds. Today we have one of these pre-overclocked GeForce 8800 GT video cards to look at from Foxconn who give their own twist on Nvidia's successful formula with their Foxconn GeForce 8800 GT OC.

The logo might look a little less than perfect there because this is actually a new logo Foxconn pasted over their older logo but with the retail cards this should be bright and not a problem at all. As you probably know the GeForce 8800 GT is based off of Nvidia's new G92 GPu core. We've been over it a number of times before but let's give you a quick recap of what's new. First off the major advancement is the shift from a 90nm to a 65nm manufacturing process. This solves a number of issues the first GeForce 8 cards has including heat, power consumption, and cost. Shrinking the die size reduces all of this and as such the GeForce 8800 GT is a single slot solution as opposed to the dual slots of the GeForce 8800 GTX and original GTS which Nvidia can manufacture cheaper to provide near GeForce 8800 GTX performance levels in a slimmer and more efficient overall design.

The number of stream processors on the GeForce 8800 GT is 112, just under the new 8800 GTS 512 by 16 and more than the new 9600 GT by 48. The core clock is 600MHz for a standard GeForce 8800 GT but the overclocked Foxconn we're reviewing bumps that up out of the box to 660MHz. The memory clock also sees a change in tune from the vanilla 1.8GHz to 1.94GHz of 512MB of DDR3 with a 256-bit memory interface. Other new changes include support for PCI-Express 2.0 and onboard video decoding of HD codecs such as H.264.

Foxconn also touts high quality Japanese solid capacitors on the board for better tolerance in high-temperature situations, two power input filters to eliminate power noise and ThermalSafe IC monitoring to prevent chip burnout when overclocking.

Foxconn's software bundle is unique although the norm for the company. They include their Foxware overclocking utility and also rather than games some handy utilities are included. These are Foxconn's Drive Clone 3 for data backup and VirtualDrivePro 10.0 for emulating CD and DVD-ROM drive for loading images of games or other ISOs you might have. It isn't a game but that can be hit and miss if you already have or are not interested in the title included with the graphics card you are buying, this has a more general usage for everyone. The Foxware utility is very easy to use and control overclocking by 1MHz increments and implementing the safety features in case the card gets too hot. Here's a quick look at the GUI.

The hardware bundle is fairly standard with a DVI-to-VGA adapter, HDTV cable, and VGA power cable.

As far as price it is one of the cheapest GeForce 8800 GT cards on the market and the second cheapest overclocked GeForce 8800 GT at Newegg at $209.99 after rebate. An excellent and reasonable price as GeForce 8800 GT cards have at last dropped in price and approached sub-$200 levels.

Here are the specs from Foxconn.

GPU NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
Core G92
CoreClock 660MHz
Pixel Pipeline 112 Stream Processors
Vertex Pipeline 112 Stream Processors
RAMDACs 400MHz
Memory Type GDDR3
Memory Size 512MB
Memory Clock 1940MHz
Memory Interface 256bit
Graphics Bus Technology PCI-E x16, Gen2.0
Cooler Fansink
Connectors Dual Dual-Link DVI + HDTV_Out
Special Features： PCI Express 2.0
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Support
NVIDIA® SLI™ Support
Dual Dual-Link DVI Support
HDTV Out Support
Windows Vistaâ„¢ Support