Evolution is the nature of nature. Everything evolves, man just continues to work to make everything that he has better. Every product gets replaced by a more efficient and more feature rich products. Such is the nature of things. Naturally, this applies to the world of technology where this evolution is very fast. Almost every year a technological product gets replaced by a newer, faster model. The graphics card industry is no stranger to this evolution. And the two big players, NVIDIA and ATI are always looking to outdo each other with faster and faster graphics cards. So as they say, competition drives innovation and that is exactly what it is doing bringing us greater products on regular basis. - AlienBabel

Galaxy GeForce GTS 250 512MB Video Board Review

This GeForce GTS 250 is a perfect example of evolution. The G92 chip used in this card, has a long history. Such is the history of this chip, that it would not be wrong to give this chip a legendary status and just call it the G92. This chip may be forever remembered in the graphics card history for showing the world that a mainstream card doesn't need to be slouch capable of playing the games only at lower resolutions and lower settings when compared to their $600 top of the line brethren. The G92 based on 65nm fabrication process made its first appearance in the GeForce 8800 GT version, with a handicap of only 112 shaders enabled.

Galaxy's GeForce GTS 250 comes in a fairly attractive box. The box features a spider on its cover, which is a relief from all the warriors and women with swords featured on some of the boxes from other manufacturers. Their box design and labeling is an important part of catching the consumers attention in these retail locations. The box labels the features of the card pretty clearly. It advertises the 2-year warranty that comes with the card and a toll free number, should you have any technical difficulties with the board. The card comes with all sorts of guides, which is very good for a first time system builder and upgraders.

Galaxy has taken NVIDIA's reference design and made something better out of it. They have catered to the overclocking enthusiast with this video card, adding features which should aid them in perfecting their craft. Features like dual BIOS are rarely found on cards even from premium companies. Add to it the inclusion of the second external 6-pin power connector to ensure that you overclock is not limited by power. And in addition, the 5-phase power regulator supplies clean and efficient power to the GPU and memory. To top it all off, you can buy this card for $109, and you have the makings of a great price to performance graphics card.

Now pair two of these in SLI and you will have the power of a GeForce GTX 280 for less than $220 which is a great deal. And frankly we can't think of a card with greater price to performance ratio on the market right now.