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MSI

We hardly do anything with MSI, but when I browsed through their graphics card lineup I noticed no less than four DirectX 10 graphics cards. And obviously NVIDIA allows them to show it. Above I'm guessing the 8500GT.

Now it's very hard to tell what exactly is what, but this likely is the 8600 GT.

Very difficult to spot because these are not reference design cards. But my bet this is the 8600 GTS.

Same card yet without cooler. Interesting eh ? MSI chose to design the cards themselves instead of using the NVIDIA reference designs. MSI adds a Core Cell chip to handle frequency adjustments and voltage increments for overclocking purposes and it also helps in enhancing the images.

Did you notice something else about the four boards (obviously NVIDIA 8500/8600) ? Not one has a 6-pin power connector meaning they all use less than 75 Watts of power.

Inno3D

At Inno3d we had a quick chat with our marketing contact. Now for whatever reason the photo's on Inno3D are fuzzy. They where really out there though, great booth with obviously promoting the new iChil serie of graphics cards. iChil A two-fold cooled series, one with Zalman cooling the other with Arctic Cooling products cooling the cards.It's not "just" about that cooler though, there is be plenty of other stuff to look be found, much higher clock frequencies, gold plated connectors, high overclockability, low noise cooling. It's really impressive.

Check some of our reviews, in fact we have one coming up soon.