Just the other day we looked at the GeForce GTS 250 from Galaxy. But today we're looking at something a bit more higher up in the market, NVIDIA's number two card and the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market, the GeForce GTX 285. Galaxy has taken the time to get a bit down and dirty with the card and squeeze some extra MHz out of it. We're going to find out just how these extra MHz affect overall performance when compared to a video card that follows the reference clock speeds. Before we get into that though, we're going to take the time to have a closer look at their package and see what Galaxy has included inside, as well the looks and feel of the graphics card itself. - TweakTown

Galaxy GeForce GTX 285 Overclock Graphics Review

Galaxy has opted for a longer box that doesn't sit quite as tall. We can just see that the top left corner has the Galaxy logo while the right makes mention that the card is overclocked. We also have a picture of a spider and web down this side of the box. Across the bottom we have the model mentioned along with some of the main features like 1GB of GDDR3 memory on a 512-bit bus. Next to that we have a sticker of some of the main features of the actual GPU and to the right we have a couple of NVIDIA logos representing some more of the features. Turning the box, we have a heap of information regarding some of the cool things.

To the right of the package we have the minimum requirements of the board and we also have some information on SLI and also what's needed to get it up and running. As far as paperwork goes there isn't a whole lot going on. We have a user manual and a quick start guide. As far as software goes we've got a DVD which has a driver and user manual on it as well. As with all GeForce GTX 285 cards we have looked at since its release, Galaxy hasn't done anything to the cooler. We can see that it manages to take up the whole board from left to right and top to bottom, so a full coverage and with very decent cooling performance.

On the right side we can see the fan that pushes the cool air over the GPU while Galaxy has of course added their own spice to the unit with the help of a sticker that lets us know the brand, model and has a similar picture to what we saw on the front of the box. With the cooler looked at, it's time to have a closer look at the card itself. Towards the back of the card we have our power connectors which come in the shape of two 6-pin PCI Express connectors. Moving closer to the front of the card, we have two SLI connectors which allow us to have a maximum of three of these GeForce GTX 285 video cards running together.

As we saw mentioned on the front of the Galaxy box, this GeForce GTX 285 is of course overclocked. And we can see that Galaxy has given us a core clock of 695MHz. We can also see the shader clock has moved up to 1500MHz and the 1GB of GDDR3 memory sitting on that 512-bit bus moved to 2500MHz effective. So while the Galaxy GeForce GTX 285 doesn't offer a huge increase in clock speeds, the extra MHz on offer does give us an extra few frames. There's not a whole lot you can fault with the Galaxy GeForce GTX 285, the extra speed on offer gives us a little bump in performance and the overall bundle is pretty good.

The GeForce GTX 285 is an all round pretty good card, it currently helps towards giving us the fastest setup possible in the form of an 3-way SLI setup. Its single card performance is also great and it is currently the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market. And Galaxy's version while drawing a bit more power does perform very well and exactly how it should, which means that overall it's a very fast graphics card and is capable of running games at resolutions of up to these ultra high widescreens with those lovely 30inch LCD displays. As such you will be able to enjoy some high definition gaming experienceand performance.

While a few more MHz on the board would have been nice, since we know it still has more breathing room, the clocks on offer are enough to help it consistently beat out a stock model. If you're looking for a bit of extra grunt without breaking the bank open, the Galaxy GeForce GTX 285 is a good option.