foxconn 8800gts

[m0neymike]

Does anyone else have this graphics card? I was reading the foxconn website and it states that EVERY 8800GTS 320MB overclocked or not comes bundled with a USB controller. When I received mine today there was no indication on the box of a bundle and of course nothing bundled inside the box. Pretty disappointing, does anyone else own one that didn't come bundled?

 

[Captante]

Why would a graphics card come bundled with a USB controller?


Edit: My guess from looking at the Foxconn website is that you are confused ... there is a link to a USB game controller driver listed there, but no mention of one being bundled with the card.


Foxconn 8800GTS 320mb


Edit #2: I notice that the product page for the Foxconn 8800GTX lists a USB game pad as bundled with the card... GTS does not.


Foxconn 8800GTX

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Captante
Why would a graphics card come bundled with a USB controller?

XFX had a bundle back when the 7800GTX was new, where you got a USB game controller.

 

[m0neymike]

Foxconn Cares

Every Foxconn 8800GTS 320MB and 320MB (overclocked) graphics card come bundled with two great software (Restore IT 7.0 and Virtual Drive Pro 10.0) - along with a FOXCONN proprietary USB Game Pad Controller that should make your neighbors turn green with envy - until they rush out and buy one themselves. These bundles retail more than $170.00 when acquired separately.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/it-IT/new...ws_read.aspx?type=hyzx&id=it-IT0000058

and every site i've read so far that reviewed this card mentioned the USB controller it came with =[

 

[Keysplayr]

Doesn't Foxconn manufacture almost all (if not all) 8 series cards, no matter the vendor that end's up selling them?

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Doesn't Foxconn manufacture almost all (if not all) 8 series cards, no matter the vendor that end's up selling them?

I think I read somewhere that a handful of those companies actually do makes their own instead of just rebadging the Foxconn-made ones. Although, if you take a close look at the drug-induced artwork on the retail Foxconn 8800s heatsink and box, it might not be a bad thing that other companies add their own artwork...

In any case, I think it's supposedly a trade secret which companies just use the Foxconn ones and which make their own. The site I read that info at (THG?) wouldn't disclose which, probably from fear of being sued.

To the OP, if you go to NewEgg, you can clearly see that only the GTX comes with a Gamepad. I don't know why there's a sticker on the GTS box mentioning a gamepad, when it's not among the things packed inside.