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 Bait and Switch June 6, 2008
V. Balmer (IL)
2 out of 11 found this review helpful
Frontlines: Fuel Of War was to come with this card, but the shipper, TigerDirect did not ship the game with the card. After talking with TigerDirect, they would not honor their agreement. I would suggest not buying from TigerDirect and purchase this card elsewhere.
Won't work - reboots continuously June 9, 2008
Samuel Abbe (Alexandria, VA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Two things to consider on power supplies and graphics cards: The total wattage (W) and the amps (A) available at 12 Volts (V). Higher end graphics cards can't get enough power through the motherboard and require a direct connection to the power supply. The 12V is normally split between several rails/plugs. First rail supplies the computer, 2nd supplies the 1st video card, 3rd rail supplies the 2nd video card, etc.
Even though my system (500W & 34A) exceeds the minmum requirements (400W & 26A) this card puts my system into a continuous reboot, restarting every few seconds never mind starting windows.
Contacted PNY and they said buy a new power supply that can supply 26A on a single 12V rail. Turns ou there is no such thing. Even the most advanced power supplies only supply 18A per rail (like my current system).
Of course ANTOnline happily accepts return except on computer parts so now I'm stuck with a $160 card I can't use.
Lastly unless the game is on the driver disk I didn't get the copy of Frontlines that is supposed to come with this package.
 PNY 9600GT May 9, 2008
S.P. (California, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this card on sale for $110 and never regretted it. The 9600 is the best mainstream gaming card you can get. I had no trouble playing Assassin's Creed DX10 with over 30 fps at 1680*1050. If you want to play Crysis smoothly at that resolution, I suggest you go with the 8800gt or gts. The 64 stream processors can hold you back at high resolutions, but running two (SLI) will fix that up. For you overclockers, I got mine to 750 core, 2100 memory, and about 1800 shaders on stock cooling. People that like silent computers will be happy to hear that the fan only spins when it gets over 60C I think, mine doesnt even go that high when playing a game. You may need ntune for that though.
Great bang for the buck July 8, 2008
Thomas R. (TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Upgraded from a 2+ year old 7800GT. Installed in a XP 4200+ dual core. Card works great at the high resolutions of my 24" LCD.
I'm not worried about all the numbers about how well my card works in this benchmark software or that test level; I just wanted a good card that could play TF2, COD4, C&C3, and not slow down. I found it.
Highly recommended.
Great time to purchase a video card August 3, 2008
Harvey Ramos (Springfield, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Right now is a really great time to upgrade your video card if you haven't already. the Nvidia 9600GT series of cards is a worthwhile upgrade for just about any card more than a year or so old. If you've got any 6000 series or 7000 series Nvidia card, this is an upgrade. If you've got an 8000 series less than an 8800 this is an upgrade.
This card is just a little slower than an 8800GT (with at least 512MB, not the crippled 256MB versions), and priced appropriately. It is on par with ATI's 3800 series cards, and a slower than the ATI's new 4800 series cards that just came out. All of these cards I just mentioned will play ANY recent video games with all of your eye-candy set to High at very playable framerates, and many games (especially older ones) you can set to Very High settings.
At the time of this writing, you can find all of these cards for less than two hundred bucks, with this 9600GT and ATI's 3800 series at the low end of the price spectrum for as low as one hundred after rebates and such if you shop around a bit. Really, this is a great time to buy a video card if you are at all in the market for one (or might be in the near future).
For the people looking for numbers, on my system Vista gives it a 5.9 for both Graphics and Gaming Graphics. 3DMark06 gives it a score of 11200 at stock speed, and slightly overclocked it went up to 12400. Overclocking takes just a few moments with Rivatuner software if you so choose, but even at stock speeds this is plenty fast.
The only things to watch out for is the size of the card (it is fairly long), and make sure you have an adequate power supply. You don't need a HUGE power supply, but you just need a good one and not a generic cheapo one. It requires a separate PCIE power input. This isn't anything out of the ordinary, and any other card in this range you get will need the same thing. The fan is quite loud at startup, but goes down to near silent once the drivers load up.
My system is a Q6600 (overclocked to 3.2Ghz), 8GB RAM, 3x Western Digital 640GB hard drives, OCZ StealthStream 600W power supply, Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard.
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