The ZOTAC driver and utilities disc comes with a number of free software and trials. A few of them are GeForce-accelerated, taking full advantage of Nvidia’s CUDA. Here’s a description of the applications included.



Easily stabilise, brighten, and sharpen your high-definition videos using powerful enhancement technology with vReveal. Harnessing the power of NVIDIA CUDA technology and ZOTAC GeForce series graphics cards, vReveal processes videos up to 5x faster than with a CPU.



Edit your home videos with extreme precision and stunning effects with Nero Vision Xtra. Advanced features such as picture-in-picture effects, multi-track timeline, full key frame control and master effect track lets anyone transform home videos into cinematic masterpieces easily with Nero Vision Xtra.

Note that this is the trial version only.



Experience online photos and videos like never before with Cooliris, a revolutionary browser plug-in. Cooliris transforms your web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome) into the ultimate media browser that scrolls through infinite amounts of photos and videos in a matter of seconds with the option to view the content instantly.



Transform your PC into a digital entertainment hub with the open-source and award winning XBMC media centre. Enjoying digital audio, video and image content with XBMC media centre is a breeze, whether the content is on physical media such as CDs, flash drives, memory cards, or stored on another system over the network, XBMC media centre can access and play it with ease.



Enjoy web browsing on your high-definition television set with the big-screen optimised Kylo web browser. Kylo is the ultimate TV web browser with big fonts and big buttons for easy usability while relaxing on the sofa.


ZOTAC FireStorm is the brand’s take on the already populated world of overclocking utilities. Nonetheless, it is still a good touch for those unfamiliar with other applications such as MSI Afterburner.


The utility is fairly simplistic in design and functionality providing three sliders for basic clock speed adjustments and fan control. Nonetheless, it works as promised but those wanting a higher degree of customisation should look at MSI’s Afterburner application instead.

Assassins Creed Brotherhood

It's great to see that ZOTAC have also included a free copy of Assassins Creed Brotherhood which is presented as a redeemable coupon and allows the game to be downloaded from UBISOFT. I am the first to criticise manufacturers when they include cheap, out of date games and inflate the price of the product. More so, I find it frustrating when manufacturers don't include any game at all, especially on mid/high range cards. While some may argue adding a game will only increase the cost, I would retort that manufacturers will not be paying full retail price for a game, especially if it is in digital format so this should be taken advantage of but only if it enhances the overall package. Including a poor quality game does nothing to make the overall package attractive and indeed it can actually hinder the appeal, especially if the products price is inflated.

ZOTAC however have struck a very good balance by including a popular, new game while managing to keep costs under control so if the package was not attractive enough already, it certainly is now!

Let's move on to the product testing section of the review...