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 - DIRT.  There's also a DVI-to-VGA converter, a 6-pin PCIe power cable as well as 2 video-out cables included ... both s-video and component.

         

Installation

Installation was straight forward with no problems at all. The card only uses 2 PCIe slot space. That's because of the large Zalman cooler. The actual cooler is an Aluminum version of the Zalman’s VF1000, which features 4 copper heatpipes which fans out to a fairly large array of Aluminum fins. This is all cooled by a quiet fan which spins at approx. 2,500 rpm. It's certainly quieter than your usual stock cooler and does a great job of cooling the graphics card.

{imggallery 372}
Driver installation was very simple ... no further comment here. In our benchmark tests, we used the Nvidia's Forceware drivers version 169.25, which supports Windows Vista and the latest 8800GT (G92 GPUs).