Most of you probably haven't heard about VVIKOO before, that's because they are new in the business. VVIKOO will sell both NVIDIA and ATI products on the Germany, France and UK markets first. After that, an expansion to cover whole Europe is planned for the future. It is certainly not profitable for a company this size to have their own factory. That's why VVIKOO has teamed up with Palit, one of the biggest manufacturers to bring their customers cost effective, high quality solutions. This does not mean that the cards are simply rebranded Palit products. According to VVIKOO, the company performs additional quality and testing control to ensure a defect free product. - techPowerUp!

VVIKOO GeForce 8600 GT 256MB Turbo Card Review

The card is based on the GeForce 8600 GT design by NVIDIA with a higher clock speed and a Zalman cooler for improved cooling. VVIKOO's package is kept in silver with their bee logo. The package design is very clean, so it will stand out over all the other flashy packages. On the back you have a basic specifications list in multiple languages. Instead of the blueish NVIDIA reference PCB, VVIKOO uses a regular green board. Unfortunately the cooler is a bit taller than the NVIDIA reference cooler, which means that you need two slots. But a bigger and more powerful cooler also means more overclocking is possible.

We used ATITool to search for the maximum core and memory clocks, we then verified that the clocks were stable by running our benchmarking suite and looking for visual errors or crashes. The final overclocks of our card are 766MHz core and 2030MHz memory. These overclocks are really impressive, first you get an already overclocked card out of the box and then you can even overclock it quite a bit more. At our overclocked speeds, the card had absolutely no problems beating the GeForce 8600 GTS in most benchmarks. The Zalman cooler works great too, and keeps the temperatures at acceptable levels.

Even though VVIKOO is new in the business, their GeForce 8600 GT Turbo works very good. The card was rock stable during all our testing and kept the promise of being an overclocker's product. Even though the card is already overclocked by 85/400MHz over the NVIDIA reference GeForce 8600 GT design, we could get another extra 140/230MHz out of it, without any change to the cooler. So compared to the regular GeForce 8600 GT we could reach clocks that were a lot higher than NVIDIA's reference design and still able to run as stable as a rock with the standard Zalman cooler.

Our benchmarks show that the GeForce 8600 GT Turbo from VVIKOO has a nice performance advantage over the GeForce 8600 GT out of the box, but it can not beat the GeForce 8600 GTS. Once we overclocked the card, this was not a problem anymore. Especially at higher resolutions there is quite a difference in performance, big enough to be noticed while gaming. The price of the GeForce 8600 GT Turbo is only $20 more than a regular GeForce 8600 GT graphics card, so if you are in the market for such a card, spend a few bucks extra and get a nice performance boost.