VGA Card Buyer's Guide 07/2003

Inno3D

Established in Hong Kong, the company Innovision offers under its Inno3D graphics card label not only graphics boards based on NVIDIA 3D chips, but also video and sound cards, motherboards and various computer accessories.

Inno3D provides support through a contact form on its website and with tutorials and Q&A pages. The Inno3D products have a one-year warranty.

Inno3D Tornado GeForceFX 5200

The Inno3D Tornado GeForceFX 5200 has 128 MB DDR memory (128 bit) from Samsung, with an access time of 5 ns (Samsung specification: 200 MHz max. (400 DDR)). The board is clocked using NVIDIA's reference specifications of 250 MHz core and 400 MHz memory clocks.

Innovision uses a brown and black PCB. The card is cooled with a large, silver, passive heat sink that has no problems dealing with the heat emitted by the FX5200 chip. Its huge advantage: absolutely no fan noise.