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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This graphic card is GREAT. I got it on black friday for only $100~ and its the best $100 I ever spent in my life so far. Its was way beyond my exspectation.(spelling?) hahas it ran Crysis better then my old evga GeForce 8800 GTS. Hmmm I still havent tested out my TES Oblivion yet but I am sure it with eat that up. For the price this graphic card is amazing. I highly recommend this card for people who want HD gaming but are strict on budget.