For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

[Eagle101]

I would like to hear some user reviews, i went to most of the websites i have on my bookmarks and saw reviews written by journalists.

Now i want to hear the public, so if you guys/girls have anything to say please post you opinion, it will be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance TGN'ers :p

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

Iv built 2 machines with E7200 - not the 300 but they have been good fast systems.

I did make a machine with a 9600GT but i never played any games with it i just gave it to the guy, the only issue i experienced with it was the cooler runs full speed until you have installed the latest driver however yours is prebuilt so you probs wont even notice this at all.

[jesus]

Re: For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

9600GT is great if you're playing at 1280x1024 or below. I play at 1280x1024 and I get 50FPS+ in CoD4 on highest settings, 4xAA, 16xAF. 40+ FPS in UT3 (My processor limits the 9600GT in this game) on all high settigns, 0xAA, 16xAF. 100FPS+ in BF2 (completely maxed out, graphically) and 25 - 30FPS in crysis on all high settings 0xAA, 0xAF.

Mine has a dual-slot cooler and I can overclock it quite a bit. However, I didn't notice a difference so I have it at factory speeds. It runs at about 40C - 45C idle and 50C - 55C under load.

[Eagle101]

Re: For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

Wow thnx Tomeis.

[10FR]Plt.B1scu1T[FM] cheers for the comment mate. Its an OEM card, so i will prolly have to get the drivers of Nvidia.com.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

oh yeah of course it didnt come with windows installed so you will have to do the drivers yourself... no great shakes.

[Skaggy]

Re: For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

E7200 and 9600GT owner here, running at 1280*1024 resolution.

I'm not one for benchmarking, but I've never noticed any lag whilst playing the following games at highest settings/AA:

BF2
CoD4/WW
TF2
CoH
CS:S
HL2
GRIDemo

In short, I haven't played any game that I can't comfortably play at high settings. But I could guess that Crysis and FC2 would cause me to reduce some of the eye candy.

Although I have overclocked the processor to 3.00GHz, so I don't know how it will perform at stock.

[Eagle101]

Re: For people with 9600GTs and/or E7300s

Sweet! And i see that you have a 550w psu there. I got an LC Silent PSU from which i have read are good and its a 550. So its good to know a 550 is good enough :)