We are hearing a lot about NVIDIA these days, though unfortunately much of it is pretty negative as well. We're hearing about poor yields on the GT300, a delayed launch date of the model and also low supply of popular GeForce GTX 200 series models. The worst thing about all the information is most of it seems to be true. Sure, we've got the GeForce GT220 and GeForce 210 launch, but a lot of people simply find it hard to get excited about these low-end models, even though it's NVIDIA's first 40nm graphics card. This model we continue to see from NVIDIA partners is the GeForce GTX 260+ which went through many variations since its launch and for the most part has offered some great performance. - TweakTown

Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ Razor Edition Card Review

The overall package doesn't show us anything we haven't really seen before, we have got a bit of information on the front of the box and all the normal cables we are accustomed to see. While as far as extras go, we can see that Galaxy's own overclocking software Xtreme Tuner is included. Not sure if you noticed, but on the front of the box Galaxy made mention that these GeForce GTX 260+ Razor Edition is a single slot board. This is pretty noticeable when you look at the card, especially across the bottom where we can see the heatsink pop up slightly. The thin cooler means we have got a smaller fan sitting on the left side of the setup.

In the middle we can see a heap of copper over the core. The overall design is that this small fan pushes cool air to the right over the copper heatsink to help keep the core as cool as possible. To be honest though, just looking at the card we find ourselves quite worried. These GeForce GTX 260+ has never really been that cool of a card so we hope that the numbers we see here aren't too high. The other issue we're also worried about is the noise, as these small thin fans can pump out quite some dB's. Looking around the board, we have a pretty standard setup. At the back we have our standard two 6-pin PCI Express connectors.

While the GeForce GTX 260+ might be feeling a bit long in the tooth for us, these models continues to give us some excellent numbers in today's games. Sure, we are not seeing the big numbers at ultra widescreen, but really that doesn't come as too much of an surprise due to the age of the model. Getting a bit more specific about the Galaxy version, the model is great and the new Razor series which refers to single slot coolers should bring with it some exciting variations on popular models. Now the last decent performing single slot card we saw was the Radeon HD 4850 and the heat that model was putting out was quite worrying.

So what we can see is that Galaxy is able to half the width of the board with the temperature and noise numbers being surprisingly good. As far as the bundle goes, there isn't anything too exciting on offer. The hero of the card is the cooler and it's great to see that it deserves that title. With the numbers we are seeing from the cooler we were a bit surprised that Galaxy didn't choose to bump the core and memory clock slightly, but this can of course be done yourself anyway. Be it for a home theater system with a small case or a system where the slots are very close together, there are people who are going to want this model.

It is good to see Galaxy is attacking the popular GeForce GTX 260+ again with something different. If you're after a decent performing single slot card, you really can't go wrong with this model. But on the other hand, if you're looking for more gaming performance maybe the dual slot overclocked model we've looked at in the past from Galaxy would be a better option.