Palit Mashes 2 GB GDDR3 onto GTS 250
Palit has announced its new custom designed addition to the GT200 series, the GTS 250 2 GB, 1 GB and 512 MB.
The new card from Palit feature higher than regular cores speeds, clocking in at 745 MHz with 0.8ns GDDR3 memory and 256-bit interface. Cooling is handled by a two-ball bearing Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) fan, heat-pipes, and a copper base plating. The Palit cards also have 4-phase power supply.
The Nvidia GTS 250 is essentially the 9800GTX+ with a name change to fit with new naming conventions. However, Palit decided to go the extra mile and change more than just a little bit. The Palit GTS 250 uses a different PCB, custom cooler and is the first card to utilize 2 GB of GDDR3 onboard memory.

The custom cooler that sits atop Palits red PCB design is unique in that it uses a more forward mounted 90mm PWM fan and the casing that covers the entire card is vented on all four corners as well. We can see that the Palit used a standard dual-slot mounting bracket which is also vented, though it may not serve much purpose since there is no use of Nvidia’s standard tunnel casing around the cooling assembly to divert the air outside the rear of your case.
Another interesting feature is the rear ports, HDMI, VGA and DVI. This will give users of the Palit GTS 250 2 GB a choice between older to newer generation displays. The card packaging includes an HDMI to DVI dongle as well, so you still have DUAL DVI capability with this card.


Sorry but a 2GB 285 is already out.
And iDog, palit isnt a no-name brand. But when your best-buy shopping spree only shows you XFX and BFG, I could understand why you think so. Do your homework.
Sources? Personally, I find BFG and XFX to be of dubious quality compared to other Nvidia manufacturers, and have never tried their ATI products because of it. eVGA deffinately has top quality, but I'm more inclined to believe it's because of their craftsmanship. HIS has some of the best custom cooling out of the manufacturers, which directly relates to their quality and overclocking potential, and any of their cards that dont have their custom cooling are mediocre at best.
Sapphire is the only one that makes sense, since they also manufacture the ATI branded cards (only in japan now apparently), which could lead to them getting first pick at the bins. And gainward? Really?
Nah, I wouldn't think you'd want to make such a sweeping statement, so what I think you're suggesting is that just because Palit is less known doesn't mean they can't be just as good. Well yes they CAN be that good, I mean there aren't any laws of physics to prevent that. Again you seem to be taking the whole "Palit" thing on a far more personal level for some reason while still missing my point entirely. Now let's see if it was XFX who came up with a rehashed 9800 GTX+ with 2GB VRAM needlessly latched on at the expense of the end-user. Now even though my current card is XFX I wouldn't say HEYYY GREAT JOB GUYS, THANKS FOR TRYING TO SCREW US CUSTOMERS, THAT'S WHY WE LOVE YOU, or some other such asinine thing. Nope, I'd say something like "so a self-proclaimed top brand thinks they can put 2 gigabytes of cheapo memory on a mid-range card from last year, slap their sticker on there and we'd all blindly buy it? I don't think so..." or something like that, it's called sarcasm. I think you know how it works but I have a feeling you're one of those gents who just have to have the last word in every argument, so do go ahead, have your last word, or two, I stopped caring two sentences ago.
So I take you do not realize Gainward and Palit ARE THE SAME COMPANY??
I remember the debates then about whether we would ever use 128MB....
still it was able to boost performance 5% or more. I see things like this as "icing on the cake"
Oh
What makes most games large is introduction movies, and interludes.
Also music. But those things don't need to be stored in the card, since if they are read directly from the HD they would still have enough bandwidth to be played back stutter free.
So the rest of most games would totally fit in 1GB, most in 500Mb even!
I would not buy the card, because unless I'm planning on paying a game like Crysis, I will probably not need that large amount of VRAM.