A meet and greet with the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285
A meet and greet with the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285
On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at a high resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.
So here we have the card and bundle. Gigabyte kept things fairly low-budget to keep the price down. Well, there's something to say for that as well, of course. We spotted the card for 320 EUR / 349 USD. Think back roughly a year .. where high-end graphics cards started at 499 USD. Yeah, you just had a little moment, eh? The card comes bundled with the following items:
- GeForce GTX 285 1024 MB
- Driver CD
- Quick installation guide
- Manual
- 2x 6-pin to Molex power cable
- 1x VGA->DVI dongle
Warranty
Gigabyte will give you a three year warranty on this product.
Step-Up program
No step-up program available.
The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285 is 100% reference based, but it remains a pretty funky design though, with some very proper cooling. Being a reference based product, the clock frequencies are kept standard at 648 MHz on the core, 1476 MHz on the shader processors and 1242 MHz (x2 double datarate) for the memory. Reference or not, it remains a very fascinating product with good looks for sure.
At the front side we stumble into the two DVI connectors. Both are dual-link DVI, meaning they support high-resolution monitors. To your left, a 7-pin analog HDTV-out mini-din, and S-video connector, or YPrPb (component) or composite outputs, for those who still live in the analog era...
The card feeds off the PCIe bus and the two 6-pin power converters, 'loveleh', as the previous generation GTX 280 required an 8-pin connector as well.
