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Brandon Hill (Blog) - February 21, 2008 9:58 AM

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT @ PC Perspective

DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
@ PC Perspective
@ AnandTech
@ OCC
@ t-break
@ Elite Bastards
@ Hot Hardware
@ I4U
@ Chile Hardware
@ Legit Reviews
@ Guru3D

Motherboards
AMD Quad-CrossFire - CrossFireX Performance Preview @ PC Perspective
ECS A770M-A (V1.0) AMD 770 Motherboard @ Bigbruin.com
Foxconn Mars @ InsideHW.com

Video
ZOTAC GeForce 9600GT 512MB AMP! Edition @ TweakTown

Cooling
Noctua NH-U12P CPU Heatsink @ Madshrimps

Power Supplies
Sigma Shark 635W Power Supply @ ThinkComputers.org

Peripherals
TRITTON AX51 5.1 Headphones @ Motherboards.org
Belkin In-Desk 3" Grommet Hole USB Hub @ Everything USB

Multimedia Devices
Super Talent Vidego28 MP4 Player @ High Tech Reviews

Consoles/Console Accessories
Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel for PC & PS3 @ I4U

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Interesting

By eye smite on 2/21/2008 10:31:02 AM , Rating: 4

Seems like all the review sites latched onto the 9600GT faster than they did the 3870X2. That's good though, I hope it drives the 3000 series down in price, I need to replace this aging X700pro 256mb card. heh

RE: Interesting

By TheDiceman on 2/21/2008 10:46:47 AM , Rating: 2

Actually, there has already been a price drop on the durrent 3000 series ATI cards, at was announced yesterday. Not all models and retailers reflect it yet, but they are starting to show. For instance I saw a Sapphire 3870 down to $189 at NewEgg.

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RE: Interesting

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 2/21/2008 12:54:15 PM , Rating: 2

Newegg is actually down to $184 if you put it in your cart. They're selling below MSRP.

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RE: Interesting

By noxipoo on 2/21/2008 2:43:55 PM , Rating: 2

so 3870 or 9600GT?

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RE: Interesting

By DingieM on 2/22/2008 8:19:46 AM , Rating: 2

If you are going to play lots of Company of Heroes, that game seems to run much better on the HD38xx cards.

ATI has the advantage of being "futureproof":
1. It has DX10.1 and more important, SM4.1 hardware which can have further performance improvements than SM4.0, especially with global illumination that is SM4.1/DX10.1
2. Vista SP1 brings DX10.1
3. With CrossfireX you can mix with a HD3850 that almost make it as fast as 2 HD3870's and even mix it with a X2! I highly expect it to be CrossfireX compatible with upcoming RV7xx cards.
4. It has full VC-1 encoding (popular high quality codec) in hardware.

But, if you are a bit patient, wait for the RV7xx series in summer time, that will obliterate the current generation's performance.

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Headset

By OPR8R on 2/21/2008 1:34:02 PM , Rating: 2

I love that the price of high end GPU's have come down so much lately but that's not nearly as exciting to me as a wireless headset would be.

Am I the only one who's grown painfully tired of rolling over and ripping out the cord of his headset?