Foxconn

Our first 8800 series card in this review comes from Foxconn; we only received one sample from them for this review so we purchased a second to enable SLI. Foxconn are relatively new to the graphics card market and only started producing cards with the Geforce 7 series however despite this “newcomer” status there isn’t a lot which is lacking in terms of their product packaging. All of the standard features are listed and despite the fact the packaging isn’t as “cool” as many other manufacturers we are happy to see that the naming of the product follows conventional methods rather than the crazy model numbers used on Foxconn motherboards.

Inside the box we find the bundled extras which take the form of a DVI>VGA convertor, manual, driver CD, TV connector and joypad. Including a joypad (similar in design to the PS2’s) in the bundle is quite a nice touch. It’s one of these peripherals that many people will just never get round to and they are incredibly useful for gamers...much more so than free games which come with most cards.

Foxconn’s 8800GTX, as with every 8800 released to date, follows Nvidia’s reference design to the last detail. The only aspect of the product which differentiates the card from its competitors is the heat sink sticker which follows the design of the retail packaging. Just to confirm, reference design means clocks of 575 MHz Core and 900 MHz memory.

Overclocking

With all reference GTX cards currently using same design for the card it was likely that we would see similar overclocks with each. Starting with the Foxconn we upped the clocks on the core initially and found that the card surpassed the core speed of some recently released pre overclocked cards which come at 630 MHz. The core eventually maxed out at 639 MHz, slightly higher than our launch day XFX branded card. Memory was next to test and we found that the Foxconn again overclocked higher than our launch day sample and reached 985 MHz.