Review: Foxconn FV-N88XMAD2-OD graphics card

High-end graphics card, though not quite the fastest

Foxconn is a large scale manufacturer, who besides manufacturing iPods, also puts together graphics cards that are then re-branded and packaged by different companies.

The FV-N88XMAD2-OD is its new card based on Nvidia's reference design and looks extremely similar to ECS' N8800GTX-768MX, with the purple front sticker being just about the only thing separating them in terms of looks.

The Foxconn FV-N88XMAD2-OD isn't the fastest 8800GTX card we've tested, that honour goes to EVGA for its overclocked E-Geforce 8800GTX KO ACS3.

Its core is clocked at 575MHz and it has 768MB Ram clocked at 900MHz (1800MHz effective), the same as ECS' card. Despite that, it performed slightly below the ECS card.

In our test system, an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard and 1GB Ram the card scored 16,359 in 3DMark05, making it the third highest scoring single card we've tested.

A drop of 1-3 per cent across all games was consistently seen at all resolutions and settings.
We can conclusively say that the card will push out 3-5 frames per second less than the ECS and EVGA cards. A breakdown of these scores can be seen on our benchmarking site.

The card comes with a DVI-VGA dongle, power cables and a USB joypad with two analogue controllers. Designed much like a Playstation 2 controller, its rubber grips make it comfortable to hold but all the buttons are numbered, which gives it a rather tacky and cheap look.

If your computer case can hold an 8800GTX (they're 27cm long) then this card might be worth considering for excellent performance at high resolutions. The card is fractionally slower than the other 8800GTX cards we've tested, but it is also slightly cheaper.

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