The 9600GT's are out !!!

[leoftw]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=9600gt

Well I'm not going to pick one up but you guys might want to . They match up with the 8800GT sometimes beating them . My next card will be two cards 2xHD3870X2's :)

[armond21]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261001
and as it turns out the lan sponsor Palit has a the 9600gt avalable on newegg as well. so buy that one lol.

[leoftw]

they actually have the sickest version hdmi is nice !!

[Sir Zolofto]

Well, it's nice the 9 series is released. Still it's specifications still do not match up to a 3870.

HD3870 vs GeForce 9600
Its core: Over 800. Geforce 9600 is trying to break 700
its memory: Over 2000. The 9600 is almost there, but not quite
Memory type: GDDR4. GeForce failed to get over the GDDR3 years. Come on Nvidia, GDDR3 is old technology.
SPU: 3 times what the 9600 has. (320vs64. lol wtf?)
Its price: more expensive by appx20$
D3D/GL: Tied.
its flaw: Catalyst Drivers. Ewwwwww. AMD/ATi needs to make art out of that trash, or dispose of it.
Its plus: An ATi card promotes game developers to use their hardware for rendering/etc.

Who wins? Nvidia. biggest fan boy group ever.

I hear the 9 series for geforce will feature the aegia PPU. Thats a plus, yet to be seen though.

I am actually not a fan of ATi cards, I am only on my 2nd one I've ever owned. But I am not a fan of Nvidia cards either. ATi has proven themselfs to be durable long lasting cards. I do run into many problems using the Catalyst drivers, and the omega drivers just cause me to BSOD with an infinite loop error. Sounds like a coding issue. I had an Nvidia card as far back as the first AGP computer I ever had, which is an NVidia TNT2 Riva 32MB. Then I had a Nvidia card up till the Failure Xtremes (FX series), then I started to invest in ATi. I have a ATi9200 128MB AGP GPU still lying around. Withstood over 2 years of constant overclocking, lost a capacitor (I gotta sodder that back on one day), and still runs perfectly. But since it lost one of the capacitors, it does run about 10-20fps slower in source. (I averaged 20-30 with med settings with that card)

[N3CKCAR]

I hear it wont be long until Palit's 9800GX2 is out! I cant wait to see how that stacks up!

[Sir Zolofto]

I hear it wont be long until Palit's 9800GX2 is out! I cant wait to see how that stacks up!

Not as good as a 3870x2? :)

Palit is making the best 9600 out there to date. Good job guys

[Phlake]

Aegia Physical X PPU should make the videocard market interesting :)

[[LIT]eSaber]

Just got my Palit 8800GT Super + 1GB too. Oh well thats progression.

[rDigital]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/21/nvidia_geforce_9600_gt/



the 9600gt outperforms the 3870 overall and completely pwns any ati card in openGL based software, ie Doom 3 Quake 4 based games.

[Iron Lung]

Sweet, who wants to give the TWL captain their old 8800?
Seriously, I'm running a single 7900gt here, if anyone wants to hook iron lung up on the cheap... let me know.