XFX PVT94PYDD4 GeForce 9600GT 512MB GDDR3 700MHz PCI Express 2.0 SLI Ready Video Card ( Dual DVI / S-video )

List Price: $237.99 Discount Price: $139.66

Features:

• NVIDIA SLI Ready
• 700Mhz Overclocked Speed
• Double Lifetime Warranty
• 512MB of 256-bit DDR3 Memory
• Dual Link DVI (Dual Monitor) Support

Customer Reviews:

Great Product for Reasonable Price [Posted on 2008-03-07]
This is a great product for a reasonable price. I am using it with Windows Vista Home Premium in a Dell system with AMD X64 4000+ X2 and 2GB of RAM.

Once installed, it brought my "Vista Customer Experience" rating from 3.0 to 4.8. Also, I was able to play Crysis with no problem at all. Crysis recommends that I play it on Medium (which I do). It is smooth, plays perfectly and frankly looks better than any game I've played to date.

My only complaint was that you need 2 Molex connectors to give it enough power, and my system only had SATA connectors. I had to go online to purchase SATA / Molex adapters, but they were inexpensive ($5 each).

Overall, I am very happy with this product, and it works as advertised.

Awesome [Posted on 2008-04-02]
I only have one word for it, Fu..ing AWESOME, I own an Intel C2D at 2.66Ghz, 2gb Dual channel Kingston DDR2 RAM, a 600watt power supply, a 320Gb Seagate Sata II HD, and I can run Crysis at 1200 X 1024 with all settings at High, every other game like Bioshock, Unreal III, CoD4 all maxed out, dont need to say more than just freaking AWESOME. It was worth every last single penny i spent on this beauty.

Good card but... [Posted on 2008-04-21]
A few complaints about this card.
The jack for the S/PDIF Cable is soft and weak, it can get deformed just by trying to plug the cable into it so be careful. Also the manual failed to say which pin on the gfx card was signal and which was ground. I just used the standard colour coding for S/PDIF Cable; white as signal and black as ground.

Big error, the shader clock is not 1790Mhz, it is really 1750Mhz so do not expect to get 1790Mhz shader clock. This was also an error on the XFX product page but I asked them about it and they corrected the spec on their website now.

This is a highly overclocked model yet the design is the same nvidia reference design that BFG and eVGA uses so all 3 brands are really the same, for overclocked models one would expect to get a 3-phase power design atleast. This card comes with the standard 2-phase power design.

The biggest con of this card is that it comes bundled with Company of Heroes, while some people may like that game, I find THQ games to be very lousy. Anyway this is not about THQ or CoH game, the point is that gfx cards should not come bundled with games because it increases the cost and most likely it will be a game you don't like or won't play. Gamers prefer to buy the games they like separately instead of wasting extra money on buying a card bundled with a game.

Now a few good things about this card.
XFX tech support is pretty comparable to BFG except that they take a day or 2 longer to reply but they're not so bad.

This card comes with DVI to HDMI adapter as well as the S/PDIF Cable so rest assured it can power your HD monitor.

It comes with lifetime warranty once you register it within 30 days of purchase so I guess XFX is pretty confident that their quality is high.

Since this card is nvidia reference design, you can update the card bios from any similar 9600GT and edit the vendor name with some tools from Guru3d. The reason for this is that XFX does not feel the need to publish BIOS updates on their site so you will most likely have to get bios updates from elsewhere and modify them.

Best deal considering the price/performance ratio [Posted on 2008-05-03]
I upgraded from a XFX 8600GTS XXX because it had the jerkies on World In Conflict. Installation was fast and simple. This solved the problem with twice the bandwith (256bit) and RAM (512mb) and I can even run Crysis on high, 8x anti alliasing at 1400x900. I hav'nt tried higher resolutions as there is no need. Water effects in Vista Direct X10 is notably realistic unlike Windows XP DirectX 9. There is already a new driver so check the XFX website.

Remember to register your card as XFX has a transferrable lifetime warranty.

Too bad Amazon did not have the Alpha Dog version which has a 40 mghz faster core clock but they had free shipping. My ASUS P5N-D motherboard has SLI so I can run two cards and double the speed when the need arizes. That motherboard has the latest Nvidia 750i chipset and 1333 frontside bus for only $160.

All you need! [Posted on 2008-05-20]
I wanted to build a new computer at a reasonable price. I ended up getting a q6600 quadcore, 8gb of ram, 780i motherboard, and when it came time for graphics i had the choice of 8800gt or 9600gt. I purchased the 9600s because they are newer and i figured that it should be better. All i heard is that the 8800s are better because of their g92 gpu, but i still choose the 9600gt. I purchased 2 of them and i run them in SLI. When i checked my computer on [...] it says i have 2.5gb of video ram. At first i thought it was crazy, but i can run crysis at high settings with 4x antilasing flawlessly. I can get crysis at all very high with 16xhq antilasing at 1680x1050 and it runs but i have extreme lag issues, but thats because of the processor; some programs still don't thread themselves on 4 cores. If your looking for awesome graphics cards at a low price by these i promise you won't regret it. By the way they can't be triple SLIed that was a mistake i made a first and had to send one back.

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