When someone talks about a Palit, we automatically think of a square structure composed of wood that normally is used to keep items off the floor of a warehouse and aid in the ease of transport of those items by forklift to a trailer for delivery. The Palit we are referring to is none of the above. Palit is actually a PC motherboard and video card manufacturer The Palit GeForce 8800 GT is one of the newest NVIDIA based graphics solutions available. This GeForce 8800 GT is unlike the others that we have seen. The heatsink on the Palit GeForce 8800 GT is not just a stock NVIDIA heatsink with the Palit logo on it. Palit ships its GeForce 8800 GT with a unique heatsink and fan. - Overclockers Club

Palit GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Graphics Board Review

The Palit GeForce 8800 GT comes packed in what we would consider a seriously eye catching metallic green box with their mascot on the face of the box. We don't do much retail shopping and most packages that we receive are usually shipped in a plain box, so when we finally get to open it and see the actual product inside my initial reaction to the package sparks my interest even more about what is inside. This shiny box with is bright with colors enhanced my anticipation. The Palit GeForce 8800 GT is a PCI Express 2.0 capable video card and has a two slot cooling solution and a unique heatsink.

We are not quite sure what to think at this time, the Palit GeForce 8800 GT does perform well, but much better on an Intel system. We wish one day we would be able to put any card in any system and get the same benchmarks for that card across the board, no matter what platform you choose. We truly feel bad for those of you who choose to run an AMD system at this time, the lack of L2 cache seems to be causing problems when running games that utilize both the CPU and GPU. Now lets look at it from another perspective, would you agree that ninety percent of the games available are optimized to run with NVIDIA?

So why do we have such a bottleneck when running an NVIDIA video card on an AMD system. You think these game manufacturers would work with NVIDIA to sort out the problems to get around bottlenecks related to CPU's. On the other end we have Intel. Three years ago, practicaly no one we knew ran an Intel system, but now the tides have changed and most enthusiasts are running an Intel based sytem. Back then we all complained that gaming bottlenecks were present with Intel systems. So what will be your choice? If you prefer AMD, you will get less performance. If you prefer Intel, the performance will be better.

Either way, on both platforms, any of today's games can be played at acceptable frame rates. So what about the Palit and its GeForce 8800 GT? The heatsink is incredible in my opinion, it is quiet and doesn't weigh the card down. There was a nine degree difference at load compared to the usual heatsinks we have grown accustomed to seeing on NVIDIA based cards. Not to mention that the card performs better than the ATI Radeon HD 3870 in most games.