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Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT
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cerebus
Honorary Master
It's a good card for the budget afaik.
Roquefort
Active Member
Im using the 512mb version and it runs great!
How much does the 1gb version cost? cos if it costs a fair amount you might want to go for something stronger, or put 2 weaker ones in SLI
How much does the 1gb version cost? cos if it costs a fair amount you might want to go for something stronger, or put 2 weaker ones in SLI
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
The ATi 4850 is a little more and kills the 9600GT.
cerebus
Honorary Master
ouch yea the 1gb version costs R2300 - you can nearly get a 4850 for that. But you can get the XFX 9600 gt with I think 320mb for R1300, that's a pretty good buy.
320MB is a little on the low side for today's games... rather get a 512MB. If you can afford it (and this coming from an Nvidia fan), get the 4850 or maybe the 4870 is you can squeeze enough out of your pocket.
The_Techie
Resident Techie
killadoob
Honorary Master
While the 4850 is a good card if your on a tight budget surely this card is the business.
http://www.computersonly.co.za/productdetail.aspx?sku=PVT94PYDF4&categoryId=36093
If you can afford a grand or so more buy the 4850 but this alpha dog 9600 will play games really well and is very cheap.
http://www.computersonly.co.za/productdetail.aspx?sku=PVT94PYDF4&categoryId=36093
If you can afford a grand or so more buy the 4850 but this alpha dog 9600 will play games really well and is very cheap.
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mZbZ
Senior Member
I got my 512MB one for R1200 
during rage 
during rage
cerebus
Honorary Master
Besides I'm pretty sceptical how much of that 1gb it's going to actually use.
Crysis lags on a 512MB 9600GT... not because the card cannot keep up... but because it runs out of video memory (we logged the game stats and kept on getting that message).
Well i just bought the complete PC from Rectron and didnt have much time to consider which card to go for so i just bought the GeForce GTX280 1GB 512bit. I bought the best of the best for my kido's so they are off my back for maybe a year or so .... Thanks for the input guys ...
It better be, costed me R5999
It will last more than a year.... I will give you that. In a year's time it will be equivalent to the current 4870 IMO
The_Techie
Resident Techie
It'll last at least two, I think
I wouldn't mind trading in my 8800GT for one of those
It was compared to the 4870x2 or something and rated a little faster (like 5-10% or something)... and to put it this way, the 9600GT can't run today's games on 100%....
The 4870X2 costs R6999 ... so the GeForce is good value ...
I also requested aXeRam, does it make a huge difference compared to the standard Ram ?
Well, If you check here (http://www.computersonly.co.za/productlist.aspx?categoryid=36093) you will see that the 4870x2 is cheaper than the GTX280 and it is faster.
Luckily I bought mine when they still costed R5500
Luckily I bought mine when they still costed R5500
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Not really, especially for the price. If you're already buying a GTX280 though you might as well spend money on the other parts.