Foxconn only recently got into the retail graphics card game, and despite the fact that the company is best know for relatively bland budget and OEM designs, its take on the GeForce 8800 GTS is anything but. Of course, the card can still be identified as a Foxconn; the company is known for incredibly awkward and cryptic product names, and FV-N88SMBD2-ONOC fits the bill on that front beautifully.

We have no clue what FV-N88SMBD2-ONOC actually means, but the OC at the end hints that the normally reserved and buttoned-down Foxconn is doing a little factory "overclocking." Indeed, a rather innocuous little sticker on the card's box indicates that this is an "Over-Clocking Version," whatever over-clocking is.

Impressively, Foxconn isn't messing around with modest clock speed hikes, either. The FV-N88SMBD2-ONOC is essentially a GeForce 8800 GTS running at GTX speeds—the core clock has been bumped from 500MHz to 575MHz, and the memory from 1.6GHz to an effective 1.8GHz. Don't expect GTX performance, though; Foxconn can't make up the GTS' fewer stream processors, fewer ROPs, and narrower memory bus width.

Outside of its clock frequencies, this card is about as bland as the rest. I'm not even sure what to make of the heatsink sticker, other than it looks like something an intern whipped up in 3D Studio in about 10 minutes. Rendering time included. So that would make the FV-N88SMBD2-ONOC the ugliest GeForce 8800 in this round-up. After seeing that EVGA card naked, exposing the reference heatsink in all its glory, I think Foxconn would've been better off with clear plastic shroud and no sticker at all.

Things start to perk up for the Foxconn card when we begin digging around in the box, though. In addition to a couple of DVI-to-VGA adapters and a molex plug adapter for the card's PCIe power connector, you also get a video output dongle with component, composite, and S-Video outputs. And that's not all.

Dig deeper, and you'll find a USB game controller with dual analog sticks and loads of buttons. We've seen graphics cards bundled with game controllers before, but perhaps not nearly often enough. I'd certainly rather have a game controller than a T-shirt that doesn't fit or a game I'm not particularly interested in playing.

Speaking of software that doesn't particularly interest me, Foxconn also throws in copies of RestoreIT 7 and VirtualDrive Pro 10. They make a big deal about it on the box, too, claiming that with the game controller, there's $180 worth of extras included. The only problem is that VirtualDrive and RestoreIT are currently selling for $30 and $40, respectively. According to Foxconn, that makes what feels like a $25 game controller worth closer to $110. Maybe it's the new math.

Perhaps that same new arithmetic is responsible for the FV-N88SMBD2-ONOC's uninspired two-year warranty, as well. That's the shortest coverage period in the bunch and the Foxconn card's real achilles' heel. When competitors are offering variations on a lifetime warranty with their graphics cards, two years looks pretty shabby.