Introduction
01
ATI and NVIDIA, perennial rivals in the discrete graphics-card market,
have GPUs that battle against each another at practically every price
point from
£30 to £350. The introduction of new architectures
and
restructuring of pricing means that it's often difficult to know
exactly which GPU fits in where.
Thankfully, the situation - for single-card graphics at least - is a
little simpler if going towards the prestige end of the market and
spending £200. NVIDIA has the
GeForce
GTX 275 and ATI the
Radeon
HD 4890. Both are decent, solid cards hewn from the very
fastest architectures the companies have to offer.
NVIDIA's partners all tend to have a £200-ish, bone-stock
GeForce
GTX 275. They pad out their respective catalogues with pre-overclocked
and special-edition models, and that's exactly what Inno3D has done.
Retailing a GeForce GTX 275 Overclock and iChiLL variant we take a look
at the
former, to see if the extra frequency is worth an estimated
£20 bump in
price. Read on to find out.