Vvikoo GeForce 8600 GT Turbo

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 MHz / 200 MHz over the NVIDIA reference 8600 GT design, we could get another extra 140 MHz / 115 MHz out of it - without any change to the cooler. So compared to the regular 8600 GT we could reach clocks that were 42% and 45% higher than NVIDIA's reference design. Our benchmarks show that the GeForce 8600 GT Turbo from VVIKOO has a nice performance advantage over the 8600 GT out of the box, but it can not beat the 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.

Although at first glance the 8600GT from Vvikoo looks pretty basic and it's performance at stock isn't staggering, when you begin to tweak and fiddle you can unlock some fantastic performance. With a simple ATI tool overclock I was in figures well above the more expensive Fatal1ty card. It may be the ugly duckling of the 8600 family, but tell it it can be more, and the GT Turbo from Vvikoo doesn't let you down.