Last month we reviewed the Inno3D Geforce 8800GT Accelero X1. It was a very good graphics card that produced excellent scores in all our benchmarks, and it also won our "Highly Recommended" award. If you asked me a few years ago, what I thought of Inno3D ... I would have said that they were a budget/mainstream graphics card manufacturer ... catering for the lower end of the market. But it's amazing how fast things do change. Not only are Inno3D now producing high-end graphics card now, they're also become one of Nvidia's main board partners in the past few years. Gone are the notions that Inno3D are budget graphics card manufacturers ... they've proven to us, that they have what it takes to compete against the heavy weights, such as BFG, EVGA and XFX. 

For those, especially in the US, who don't know who Inno3D are ... then read on. Inno3D specialises in multimedia products such as graphic/video cards and USB devices. Their head office is based in Hong Kong, and they have other offices around the world too. Inno3D are one of Nvidia's many partners, which mean all their graphic cards that they produce uses Nvidia's GPUs. Here's a little blurb takn frrom their website.

Now, let's see what Nvidia has been upto in these fast few weeks. I've spoken to a few gamers and some enthusiasts, and I asked them what they thought of Nvidia's recent stint. To my surprise, they were a little bit disgusted in the way that Nvidia have planned they product releases. I can understand why. Let explain it quickly ... It was around December 2007, when Nvidia released their Geforce 8800GT (G92). It received rave reviews and before anyone really had the chance to buy one these cards, Nvidia decided released their new Geforce 9600GT (G94) in February. Then later in March, after Cebit 2008 ... Nvidia just could resist and out came the Geforce 9800GX2. But wait, there's more ... to add the icing to cake, Nvidia thought it was a great idea to announce and release a single core Geforce 9800GTX at the end of March / early April. Perfect. Well, not quite ... looking back, Nvidia have essentially released 4 different graphics GPUs over the past 4 months. That's almost one per month. Although it gives consumers lots of choice, it is however very fustrating for the early adoptors. They are having to buy graphic cards, only to find out that their investment is obselete in a matter of months. Whether Nvidia did this intentionally or not, one can only wonder. Still, if it wasn't the way they went about it ... we wouldn't have so much choice :)

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