It really does seem weird to be looking at models which are considered quite old now. The funny thing is that while these GeForce GTS 250 might have been out for a while, it's still a very current model. And a few years ago this wouldn't have been much of a surprise, but with the recent releases of so many cards over the past eighteen months it just seems funny that the GeForce GTS 250 card is still a very current model. Today we'll be looking at a card from Inno3D and like most companies they've really been able to mix it up because of the age of the card. The biggest advantage to working with cards that have been around for a while now is that there are plenty of options when it comes to cooling. - TweakTown

Inno3D iChiLL GTS 250 1GB biTurbo FreezerX Review

Inno3D has got a quite pretty black and silver design going on. This isn't really anything new when it comes to the iChiLL series. The overall color setup is pretty much the same as other iChiLL models we have seen from the company in the past. Also in the middle we can see that this particular model is part of their FreezerX series. Moving to the bottom of the box, we have a number of logos including both the Inno3D and NVIDIA one. We also have a bit of information on CUDA, while above this we have mention of some of the extras included in the package. To the left we have the model and all the other important details.

Checking out the card for the first time, we can clearly see that it's part of the iChiLL series with the massive cooler on the front. We can see there's a fair bit going on with it. Instead of the standard 80mm fans that most coolers use, the Accelero Twin Turbo Pro unit actually consists of two 92mm ones. Behind the two fans we can see an number of fins and across the top we have a couple of heatpipes that protrude from the core itself into all the fins. We can also see that Inno3D has placed their logo and the iChiLL one on the middle of both fans, while we see the Arctic Cooling one and the fan model in the middle of the cooler.

Inno3D has come out and overclocked the board which is always a nice bonus. We can see the core has just been bumped from the stock 740MHz to 760MHz. With that said, the shaders are still at the default 1836MHz clock. As we said in our introduction, these GeForce GTS 250 is feeling a bit long in the tooth these days. With that said though, Inno3D has been able to give a fresh look and feel to the model thanks to their decision to move to a nice meaty cooler while also taking the time to make use of it by overclocking the core and memory. All that just lifts the graphics card up to new hights in gaming performance.

Now if this wasn't enough to bring a smile to our face, it is great to see that the company has also decided to include two full version games in the package with one of them being the higher profile Far Cry 2. For a mid-$100 card the GeForce GTS 250 packs some serious punch for people wanting to game at resolutions of up to mid-range widescreen on a regular basis. However, if you want to do a bit of gaming at higher resolutions though, and don't want to spend big dollars and if you are happy to move to medium settings in your games, the GeForce GTS 250 won't have any dramas and will do just fine but not much more.

If you were going to do a fair bit of gaming at higher resolutions we would suggest the move to an GeForce GTX 260+ or perhaps even an GeForce GTX 275 for that matter. Inno3D has put together a nice fresh card that performs well and offers a really good bundle. And when it comes to buying a new graphics card there isn't much more you could ask for. So if you're looking for a good performing GeForce GTS 250 that offers a decent bundle and a mean looking cooler, these Inno3D GeForce GTS 250 Twin Turbo Pro is a great card.