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Nvidia GeForce 8500GT SLI review

An upgrade for budget systems?

Our Score 3

Last reviewed: 2008-03-15March 15th 2008

Price at launch £116.00
Graphics Core Clockspeed 460
Graphics Interface Type PCI Express x16
Graphics Memory (Mb) 256
Graphics Memory Type GDDR3
RAMDACs 400
Video Output Composite Video, DVI, HDTV, S-Video, VGA

Product Summary

GeForce 8500GT

Price at launch

£116.00

For

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G8x architecture still strong

Against

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No way around its poor performance

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