Now having just had a look at the GeForce GTX 285 from Gigabyte which strictly follows the reference design, it's nice to see a company at launch offer a card that doesn't carry the stock clocks. While there is nothing wrong with reference clocks and the speeds the GeForce GTX 285 puts out in its stock form, there's no denying that we want more power if we can get it. Inno3D tend to send us some special cards, and be it a good overclock or a nice new heatsink that helps keep the card nice and cool. While it doesn't come as any surprise that this Inno3D card carries with it the reference heatsink, so it is good to know it carries their overclock trait and should show even greater performance. - TweakTown

Inno3D GeForce GTX 285 Overclock Graphics Review

The front of the package we received from Inno3D was actually the wrong one. For this reason we've had to use a photo from them so you can see what it really looks like. We can see that the Inno3D logo is present along the side of the box with the NVIDIA logo, while also being seen in the top right corner. Across the bottom we have more NVIDIA logos and to the right we have the GeForce GTX 285 notion along with just a few of the main features. Turning the box over gives us a little blurb, moving down gives us a run down on some of the features and we also have a bit of information about SLI and what's needed to get it running.

While the card uses the reference cooler, we have to say the choice of sticker that Inno3D has gone for looks absolutely fantastic. With the card sitting in our testbed, we really have trouble taking my eyes off it as the whole gold and black theme looks simply awesome. It's unfortunate that once it's in its PCI Express slot, you're probably not going to be able to see it. We can see to the right of the cooler there's a fan present that helps push cool air across the GPU and out the back of the case. We can also see here that Inno3D has put its logo on there. Making our way around the card, we can see the same reference design.

Towards the back of the card we have two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors, while closer to the front gives us two SLI connectors which gives us the ability to run three cards. While Inno3D have left the shader clock at the default 1476MHz, the core has been increased to 700MHz while the 1GB of GDDR3 memory has had a slight bump to 2560MHz effective. The overclock on a whole isn't too bad and we will have to find out just what kind of increase in performance this helps us yield when it comes to our benchmarks. And that is exactly what we intend to do, running our benchmarks and newest gaming titles.

We were excited that Inno3D was sending a GeForce GTX 285, this mainly due to the fact that it was going to give us the second piece to our three piece SLI setup we wanted. The thing is though, once the card had arrived and we had ripped open the boring brown box, we were surprised to see the word overclock present on the front of the box. Overclocked cards at launch don't tend to happen too much, but there's no doubt companies have had the GeForce GTX 285 for a while now and have been able to do a bit of tweaking to find out just what kind of clocks can be achieved. Inno3D was able to do this, and how is just awesome.

They created a BIOS, do up the packaging and pimp the card out with a blingy sticker all in time for launch. And if the GeForce GTX 285 is a 55nm overclocked GeForce GTX 280 card, then what is a GeForce GTX 285 overclocked? Well, ultimately it's a really high overclocked GeForce GTX 280 and you know what? That's great! If this wasn't enough already, Inno3D manage to put together a kick ass package that includes two full version games, something that more and more companies are choosing to ignore these days. The Inno3D GeForce GTX 285 is a great card and is a bit faster than the stock offering.