XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition

XFX is another high-end graphics manufacturer known for producing very unique graphics cards. Starting with the GeForce 7 generation for instance, they developed a range of cards with such features as black PCBs with fluorescent green DVI connectors, giving their boards a very distinctive look. In more recent months, they’ve even produced 100% silent cards that rely on heat pipe cooling. Their GeForce 7950 GT XXX with heat pipe cooling (Part Number PV-T71J-YHD9) is currently the world’s fastest silent graphics card.

Like BFG and EVGA, XFX offers a lifetime warranty program on their graphics cards. In fact, XFX’s lifetime warranty program goes one step beyond BFG and EVGA; XFX actually provides a lifetime warranty to the original purchaser of the graphics card, and the card’s second owner, providing comprehensive warranty coverage to both users. In order to activate the double lifetime warranty, both users must register their card with XFX. Once that’s done, you’re both covered!

XFX also provides toll-free 24/7 tech support, as well as email and online support via their help desk feature.


Besides their excellent warranty and support, XFX is also rapidly growing in popularity thanks to their use of overclocking. For each particular GPU they offer cards for, XFX provides multiple product lines with varying levels of overclocking.



At the top of XFX’s lineup are the XXX Edition cards. These are XFX’s fastest, highest-clocked boards, and are designed to deliver blistering performance. The XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB board we’re reviewing today is a XXX Edition card.

XFX clocks their GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition at 580MHz on the graphics core and 1.8GHz on the memory. Besides the graphics core and memory, the stream processors ship overclocked out-of-the-box as well, running at 1.35GHz.

As a result of these clocks, the XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition was the fastest GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB card we tested, although keep in mind that the other cards are right on its heels in terms of performance.


But performance isn’t this card’s only redeeming feature. XFX also includes a nice game bundle with their XXX card as well. Inside the box you’ll find a copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and for a limited time only XFX also includes a copy of Call of Duty 2 when purchased from select retailers, all inside the box.


Also inside the box, you’ll find two DVI adapters, an S-Video cable, power adapter, and a video dongle with component video connections.