Package and Contents

The package is nicely presented and comes everything you need. You get the usual drivers on CD, instruction manual, and one bundled game - Company of heroes.  There's also a DVI-to-VGA converter, a 6-pin PCIe power cable as well as 2 sets of video-out cables ... both s-video and component. One of the first thing you'll notice about the card are the two 6-pin PCIe power connectors positioned virtically near the end of the card. With such a powerful card, I guess extra power is needed.

              

Installation

Installation was straight forward with no problems at all. But I did find something unusual. The two 6-pin PCIe power connectors is positioned virtically instead of horizontally, which means after installation ... these power connectors will facing towards you. It's nothing to worry about ... just different, that's all. The card itself is a little longer than most other graphic cards, and takes up 2 PCIe slot space. So make sure you have plenty of space in your chassis. The stock cooler is pretty much standard really, but it does adequate job of cooling the card.

Driver installation was very simple ... no further comment here. In our benchmark tests, we used the Nvidia's Forceware drivers version 174.74, which supports Windows Vista and the latest 9800GTX (G92 GPUs).