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Chaintech GeForce 9600 GT 512MB OC
Introduction
There's gotta be a weakness with this card. It seems too perfect. It's available at a primo price: under $150. It plays impressively well every game I threw at it. It's quiet. It sips power. It costs less than a hundred fifty dollars. It's good at video playback. It's so cheap. Everyone recommends the GeForce 9600 GT first, and they should. It's got a price-to-performance ratio unlike any card before. I'm not exaggerating. This card could very well be the best deal NVIDIA has ever put to market. I spent a day with Chaintech's factory-overclocked card... And I found a couple things I didn't like. Deal breakers? Hardly. The Card & Bundle The 9600's got a stock heatsink and a green PCB, but, then, they're not bad. The cooling is sturdy, slender, and quiet while idling. The sticker's not reference. Woo. If this is your first serious gaming video card, you'll probably think it's long at just shy of nine inches, but it's practically diminutive in relation to its ass-kicking capacity. Chaintech forgoes extras in lieu of factory-overclocks. In the box, besides the software CD and unremarkable leaflets, there are TV-out cables for component and S-Video, a power adapter, a VGA adapter, and an HDMI adapter with its audio cable. (Chaintech, an obviously green-minded company, shipped this particular video card to me from Hong Kong, in a sack. A retail box in a plastic bag. And it held up! If you care to know, DHL did the job.)
Page 1: Introduction, The Card & Bundle
Page 2: Specifications and Setup Page 3: DirectX 10 Titles Page 4: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics Page 5: Video, Power, and Overclocking Page 6: Conclusion 
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