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Just like in our previous article, you're basically limited to 1024 x 768 without AA here. It is very likely you can still get away with 16x AF, just to give image quality an extra nudge. Now, this is interesting. At that setting, the Leadtek PX8600GTS prove to be about 10 to 15 percent faster than the other GeForce 8600GTS, including the meagerly overclocked MSI NX8600GTS OC Edition. So, it looks like the additional core and shader clock comes to play only in shader limited situations. In fillrate situations, the Leadtek card wasn't able to gain any advantage. The most likely explanation is memory clock - remember, the Leadtek PX8600GTS TDH Extreme's memory is still clocked at standard clocks - 504 MHZ (1008 MHZz effective). Leadtek seem to overlook that fact, but you don't have to - from experience and reviews around the web, you can actually overclock the memory to around 600 MHz (1200 MHz effective).

Next, we're going to discuss the GeForce 8600GT cards. For those of you who want to skip over to the conclusion, click here.

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