You've probably never heard of Palit before. While the company itself is not new, it has done retail business almost entirely overseas until now. Palit is now making itself known in the US by offering some exciting high-end video cards for the enthusiast. If you search their website you will find video cards offered using both AMD and NVIDIA based GPU's, offering stock cooler options and custom heatsink and/or fan options to appeal to the enthusiast. Along with custom coolers they have also gone one step further and offered some more unique memory capacities, such as the GeForce 8800 GT based Super+ version with a total of 1GB of high-end GDDR3 memory. - HardOCP

Palit GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Super+ SLI Ready Review

A quick history lesson will tell you that the GeForce 8800 GT is based on a 65nm manufacturing processes with 112 stream processors and a 256-bit memory bus. Default clock speeds are a 600MHz core speed, and 1500MHz stream processor clock speed and 1800MHz memory clock speed. Standard configurations call for 512MB of GDDR3 memory, but as you can see in the Super+ edition that more video memory is definitely supported by this GPU. You will also note that the GeForce 8800 GT is not as fast as the new GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB although featuring a very similar G92 graphics core.

The Palit GeForce 8800 GT Super+ card is clocked at the default, suggested clock speeds of 600MHz core and 1800MHz memory. This is not an overclocked video card out of the box. The two things that make this video card unique from all the rest are the custom heatsink with fan cooling unit and the use of 1GB of GDDR3 memory. Due to the use of 1GB of memory, the price tag on this video card runs higher than other GeForce 8800 GT's, Palit has set a suggested price of $299 for this video card. On the front of the very shiny box you will find a large cyborg frog, which is rather fitting considering the green nature of this video card.

Normally a GeForce 8800 GT is one expansion slot in height, however due to the custom heatsink and fan this video card takes up two expansion slots. As you can see Palit has removed the typical heatsink shroud from the GeForce 8800 GT and have placed its own orb style fan and heatsink plates for the memory modules. This cooling system is superior to the stock GeForce 8800 GT heatsink unit in two ways, it is much quieter and it keeps the GPU much cooler. The power circuitry also receives a separate heatsink. The video card itself is also actually remarkably light in weight despite the size of the heatsink.

The highest stable overclock out of the video card was 740MHz on the core and 1960MHz on the memory. That is an overclock of 140MHz over stock frequencies for the core. We also tried overclocking just the core only, and not the memory, and we achieved a maximum core frequency of 755MHz. That is a very good overclock for a GeForce 8800 GT GPU. The Palit GeForce 8800 GT 1GB Super+ version does not disappoint in the overclocking department. So while we don't find a whole lot of value in the extra memory, we don't find a whole lot of cost associated with it either which is certainly a good point.

Palit should be commended on taking a stand and offering an enthusiast geared video card with custom cooling to allow cooler temperatures and higher overclocking. The 1GB of memory is a nice checkbox feature, but unfortunately falls flat in terms of game play advantages for today’s games with a GeForce 8800 GT. If $20 is an easy budget upgrade for you, and you want a high quality, highly overclockable and cool running video card out of the box, with possible potential for advantages with future games due to 1GB of memory, the Palit GeForce 8800 GT Super+ version may just be for you.