Introduction

I'm sure a lot of you have never head of Palit before. Before we were approached by them we had never heard of them either. Palit is not a new company, but they have done business almost entirely overseas. Now they are offering their products here in the United States. They offer both AMD ATI video cards as well as Nvidia-based cards. They were nice enough to send us over their GeForce 8600GT Super+1GB PCI-Express card, let's take a look...

Specifications

- Bus interface: PCI Express
- Memory: 1024MB
- Memory Interface: 128 bit
- RAMDACs: 400 MHz
- NVIDIA unified architecture with GigaThread technology
- Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 support
- 16x full-screen anti-aliasing
- True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
- NVIDIA Quantum Effects physics processing technology
- Two dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560x1600 resolution displays
- NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology
- HDCP capable
- OpenGL 2.0 support
- NVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- NVIDIA Lumenex Engine
- Innovative Cooling System
- Built for Microsoft Windows Vista

Packaging

Palit's packaging is what you would expect from a video card manufacturer. It looks like their mascot is a mechanical frog. The back of the packaging lists the technical specifications in a ton of different languages.

Opening up the package we have the following items: the video card itself, installation guide, VGA to DVI adapter, S-Video to component adapter, and driver CD.