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What's great about these cards is that they are a single-slotted design, short as modern cards go - which these are still a few generations old - and when you get two or three playing together, it is YOU who laughs with glee. Excellent performers even going up against the 240GT. For those of you who do a little F@H, this card will actually get 1000 more points per day than a 240GT will at full utilization. For those of you who game, the 240GT may be better at large scale texture-fill due to it's wider memory bandwidth edge and clock speed, but the core on the 9600GSO is actually 30mhz faster stock. And while most 9600GSO's are SLi-Ready, I am not aware of ANY 240GT's that are. Being that modern games require a great deal of graphical muscle, three of these will perform about on-par with a GTS450 in DirectX 9/10 games, but they are not DirectX 11 capable. (Though many modern games have DirectX 9, 10 and 11 modes, this may change). All said, I still own five of these cards spread over three machines and am very satisfied with their performance! * * * * *Read full review
Like all early 9600GSO cards this card is based on the same GPU as an 8800GT with reduced memory bandwidth and fewer shaders. The video card is almost as fast as an 8800GT card, but the memory used on the 768MB version is slower than on similar cards with equip less memory. This combined with the slightly crippled GPU limits the card's potential. Frame rates in software titles that support DX10 are relatively slow (generally about 25 frames per second). DX9 titles on the other hand all flight with this card (making it quite an upgrade from my former 7600GT based video card). So, if you're expecting to use this card to exploit new titles supporting DX10 you're probably going to be disappointed. Regardless of how you limit resolution or options, frame rates under DX10 will be slow and many software titles will experience stuttering. If you're OK using software under DX9, the card is more than adequate. Note - After living with this card for another week, I'd like to add an additional note. My initial impressions of this card running under DX10 were based on more demanding titles like Call of Juarez (which taxes even high end video cards). After testing STALKER and a few other games, I'd like to revise my original statements. This card can handle some DX10 titles at fairly high resolutions, even with some of the options (like anti-aliasing) turned on. While performance under DX9 is (like most DX10 display cards) faster, the performance of the 9600GSO is more than adequate for many DX10 titles.Read full review
this is a good card, i have one for around a year, but wanted a 2nd card for SLI GREAT, good card for the price. i run 2 lcd 19 inch screens, and my tv sometimes, it has a good pic and good fpr i game alot, on counter strike source get around 200 give or take, needs good power to push it, i have 750 watt,run 5 120mm fans dvd,cd, and extras, running q8300 over clocked to 3.4 with asus striker board, so i am getting a 2nd card for sli and giving to my kids and i am going to I7 quad core with 2 290 gt cards in sli with a 42inch hd tv.
Lots of memory for a GPU that @ one time sold for $140+, it will handle anything that you can throw @ it ( game wise & dual monitors that is ). The only knock on this card is it does'nt have HDMI, it does have s-video and is GREAT to run in SLi. I've been running 2 in SLi in F.E.A.R & and COD Modern warfare & Black Op's w/everything ( settings) on high an NO hickups !! This is a solid GPU card...
Thank You ! My Old Lenovo lijed Every Byte of It!
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