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Review: £250 - £400 to spend on a graphics card? Read this

by Tarinder Sandhu on 21 January 2009, 09:27 3.9

Tags: GeForce GTX 295, GeForce GTX 285 OCX, BFG Technologies, ZOTAC, PC

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ZOTAC bundle and warranty


The box isn't as big as a house, as has been the wont of some manufacturers.

ZOTAC alludes to most of the features that we've spoken about on the previous page.








Items Quick Install Guide
User Manual
Driver CD
ZOTAC sticker (important!)
3DMark Vantage Advanced
Race Driver: GRID (full game)
HDMI cable
DVI-to-VGA dongle
Internal S/PDIF cable
Dual-Molex-to-6-pin PCIe power adapter
Eight-pin power adapter

The bundle is decent, especially in light of the fact that ZOTAC's card is one of the cheaper GTX 295s around. Race Driver: GRID is a title we use in the current suite and 3DMark Vantage, albeit synthetic, puts the card through its paces.

ZOTAC makes the most of the GTX 295's HDMI by bundling in an HDMI and S/PDIF cable, which you attach from motherboard to card.

In terms of connectivity options, there are the full array of cables and adapters to let you make the most of the card's potential out of the box, and ZOTAC provides the necessary six-pin and eight-pin power-connectors, as well.

Warranty

All ZOTAC cards are backed by a five-year warranty that begins of the date of purchase. The warranty is currently not transferable, should the card be sold on, though. The original warranty period was for two years, but the extension is available for owners who register with ZOTAC within two weeks of purchase.

ZOTAC has a service centre in the UK. Customers have the option of sending faulty hardware either to the dealer from which they purchased the card from or, alternatively, back to ZOTAC's centre, where the company quotes a five-10 working day turnaround, and will ship the product back to the customer for free.