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Customer Reviews for ECS N9600GT-512MX-P GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
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AC
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/3/2008 4:44:51 PM

Rating + 5 Large Card, Looks Good


Pros: One of the best looking video cards when mounted in the case. No issues with video. Note: The computer that this card is in is not used for gaming. I wanted a reasonable bang for the buck and this card did the job.

Cons: Card is wide. Be sure you have room for it.

Other Thoughts: This card is in an Antec P-160WF case. This case is listed with a width of 8.1 inches. The card has about 1 inch of room between it and the window side of the case when mounted on the motherboard.

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Styln
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/16/2008 12:53:33 AM

Rating + 2 Rebate


Pros: I have already rated this card as "excellent" - and it is.

Cons: Ordered on 04/24/08. Rebate received 08/15/08. Yep, almost 4 months later! Rebates from Geil and Gigabyte, all submitted at the same time, were received months earlier.

Other Thoughts: At least they sent it. I had completely forgotten about it it's been so long. At least they did send it, else it would be a "very poor" rating.
Manufacturer Response:Dear Stylin,

We apologize for the delay in getting your rebate check. This is very unusual as we try to get the rebate back to the customers in a timely manner. The attention on this matter will only help us to improve, and we thank you for letting us know.

Sincerely,
ECS

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Zacmanman
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/15/2008 7:14:14 PM

Rating + 5 Pretty Awesome


Pros: Overall, nVidia's 9600 GT is a very powerful and valuable card. ESC's passive heatsink is rather powerful and useful. Without any fan or help, it kept under 70c in my case. I installed a spare exhaust fan and it stayed even cooler. I'm pleasantly surprised about its efficiency.

Cons: While the heatsink accomplishes what it needs to do well enough to be a superior passive heatsink, it is very large. I don't normally keep the side panel on my case because it serves no purpose, but if I were to do so I fear that it would touch the panel or just not fit.

Other Thoughts: I have not owned this card for very long but I don't think it will fail me anytime soon, or at least I hope it does not. I recommend this card to anyone who can't pay much more than $100 for a video card.

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citsacras
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/14/2008 10:10:18 AM

Rating + 5 Solid mid-range card for 2008


Pros: Accelero Passive cooling does an excellent job and is 100% silent. This card is a great value in mid-range cards. It's not the fastest thing out there, but it's fairly cheap, doesn't produce too much heat, and can play modern games at 1920x1200. I have played a few hours of Bioshock on this card and my GPU temp only reached 56^C in a case with poor airflow.

Cons: The huge passive heatsink on this card is too large to fit in some PC cases. It fit in my Lian-Li, but not in my girlfriends Compaq Presario OEM computer. The heatsink would also prevent an SLI bridge from being used, although the soft copper could probably be easily modified.

Other Thoughts: About equal performance to 8800 series cards. However, one will still perform 8600GTs in SLI. SLI (and Crossfire) only make sense for those willing to buy two high end cards while they are still cutting edge.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
8/12/2008 12:39:19 PM

Rating + 2 Good card, bad service.


Pros: Cheap, good card, slightly overclocked out of the box.

Cons: VERY Large. Came in horrible condition. Heat sink was bent up and almost falling off, came in a plain box barely wrapped with NO CD or cables or manual as boasted. Just the card in a static bag. Cannot get my mobo to recognize it without the utility driver on the disk (different from the nvidia driver).

Repackaging it now to send back to newegg, extremely unsatisfied.

Other Thoughts: This card is amazing, all my trouble was from newegg. Extrememly let down that I have to wait for shipping again. This card had me excited! I would buy it again if I knew it would come in good condition!

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AlaskanDude
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/11/2008 10:24:36 PM

Rating + 5 Perfect, except for SLI


Pros: Cool, cool, and just ..., well, keeps the card cool.

Cons: Won't work in SLI, unless there's some sort of SLI bridge that I am not aware of. Standard SLI bridges don't fit.

Other Thoughts: Ok, so if you try to fit this in a HTPC, or SSF case, then yeah, it won't fit, HELLOOOOO!!!

If you are a REGULAR tower case, it will fit just fine. I am using it in an Antec 900 (which is one of the more narrow cases out there), and it fits just fine.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
8/9/2008 5:21:23 PM

Rating + 1 Engineering team was smoking too much crack


Pros: Perfect card for computers without cases.

Cons: Won't fit in a case. Not good for computers with cases.

Other Thoughts: If you ever see a computer without a case, let me know.

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Anthony C.
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/27/2008 11:21:41 PM

Rating + 5 Works Great


Pros: I have this card installed I waited to write a review until I played with it. I run all my games, CoD4, Battlefield Series, Medal of Honor Airborne, Frontlines: Fuel of War, and Company of Hereos at full speed with no lag. I can also run FRAPS in game with no lag as well at 60fps.

Cons: The drivers are worthless download them directly from NVidia.

Other Thoughts: Wasn't too sure about the cooler so I replaced it with a Thermaltake waterblock since I have liquid cooling.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/23/2008 11:07:24 AM

Rating + 5 Good for gaming


Pros: This is a fantastic card, especially for the price. It can run just about anything I throw at it at the highest settings (haven't tried crysis yet, though), and it's silent. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is looking for a powerful card while trying to keep the noise down.

Cons: I wouldn't turn down some more memory, but I'll live. The card is also a little big, but it shouldn't be a problem unless you have a small case.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/15/2008 6:25:44 PM

Rating + 5 good card


Pros: great card for the price. runs everything i throw at it without a problem. keeps nice and cool.

Cons: wasn't free

Other Thoughts: get the after-market fans for it, they are cheep and make it an even cooler running card

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amyhughes
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/12/2008 3:32:15 PM

Rating + 5 good balance performance vs heat


Pros: Has an excellent, silent, high-performance cooler already attached. Good balance of performance vs heat generation. Performs well. Good value.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: I use this in a nearly-silent computer. The 9600 is a good balance between performance and heat generation. In silent computing, low heat is important because less heat means lower cooling requirements, which means fewer, slower fans.

A good choice for silent computing is to take a 9600 and attach a fanless Accelero cooler to it. This card comes with one already attached, so you save the cost and trouble of doing that yourself.

This card idles at about 43C and reaches about 60C in gaming with one 120mm 800rpm fan blowing indirectly on it and the motherboard, and a single 800rpm exhaust fan. Total system power usage (minus monitor) is 92W idle and 145W gaming, with 3GHz C2D processor and one HD.

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l2emix07
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/4/2008 4:14:59 PM

Rating + 5 l2emix07


Pros: I've managed to overclock it to (750/1030/1820, says on GPU-Z) and this is just awesome for the money/noise. Price was $125 ish when it had the rebate. Idle at 36C load at 55C.

Cons: Card is big?

Other Thoughts: The price should go down or they should offer a rebate again as there're 4850's as the best price/performance ratio cards at 170 AR.

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steeljan
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/12/2008 11:09:03 AM

Rating + 5 so far, great vid card


Pros: Loving the total silence. Sitting at 48 C right now, gets to 55 C in games (I do have a quiet slow-spinning 80mm case fan blowing on it). I get 91fps in COD4 with most of the eye candy turned on, at 1280x1024, on my 19" LCD monitor.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: As other reviewers have said, it is a tall card because of the cooler. From the bottom of the pcie connector fingers to the top of the cooler it is 6 3/4 inches. Since I wanted to put a left side panel case fan blowing on it, I had to remove the top plastic cap from the cooler, which frees up 1/4 inch of the height.

It is 9 inches long.

The drivers on the CD are outdated, since Nvidia just came out with new drivers a couple of weeks ago. So, I just put in the new 175.16 drivers straight from Nvidia's website. No problems at all.

I did have a problem with my Gigabyte GA-EP35-D3SL motherboard's sound drivers (Realtek), that hung the graphics in games, making it first seem to be a vid card problem. But once I uninstalled the Realtek HD sound drivers which were conflicting with Vista's, all is working fine now.

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Paul
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/9/2008 2:53:04 PM

Rating + 5 Works in Linux, Silent, Cool


Pros: After my last two video cards overheated and died when the heatsink fan died, I decided to get a fanless card instead. So far so good. Usually operates around 40-50C degrees. And of course it is completely silent.

Works in Linux using the latest nvidia drivers. I can play UEFA Euro 2008 using Wine and it runs nice and smooth at 1600x1200. :)

Packaging is quality, comes with all the adapters you need for HD output.

Cons: The heatsink was not mounted on straight at the factory, it is crooked and the plastic clips were loose in the package and would not fit (because it was not straight). So far I'm just leaving them off. No instructions at all about the heatsink, so I'm not sure what is involved with removing and reattaching, and don't know what the clips do or if they are important or only for use during shipment?

Other Thoughts: It is a BIG card. I have a huge case so the tallness of the card wasn't a problem, but the length was more of an issue. It is much longer than the previous 8500GT card. I had to re-route hard drive cables, and some power and front panel cables that connect to the bottom of the motherboard had to be stretched to their limit. As long as it doesn't get moved it should all be okay.

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Mel
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/9/2008 12:56:04 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent!


Pros: Silent, runs cool, works great!

Cons: Absolutely none!

Other Thoughts: The heat sink on this card, Accelero S2, keeps the card idling at around 44C in my case. The card works great with everything. I highly recommend this card. I did purchase this card when they had it for $145 and free shipping with a $25 dollar mail-in-rebate, which was a real sweet deal on a card worth much more.
My system:
Antec Solo, Gigabyte EX38-DS4, Ninja Plus Rev. B (no fan), Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 2-hard drives, DVD burner, Rear and front fan spinning around 800 rpm.

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Dhampir
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/8/2008 1:06:15 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent card all around.


Pros: I haven't had a card this quiet since my Obsidian X24. So far it runs Age of Conan, Call of Duty 4, and even Crysis quite well. Stays very cool, even under heavy gaming. Comes with connectors for just about every type of display output.

Cons: The heatsink is huge. Be sure to measure before you buy it.

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Jawa
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/2/2008 3:11:50 PM

Rating + 5 Great card, great value


Pros: Excellent perf for this price. Completely silent. Great for a movie box that can double as a games box. Comes with HDMI connector.

Cons: I had to carefully re-snap one of the plastic clips that secures the fins to the card. It had come loose in shipping.

Other Thoughts: It's in my movie computer connected via HDMI to my 720p projector. Silent operation is essential for movie-watching. Also, it's fast enough to run any game I've tried at my native 1280x720 with all settings on max and 4x/16x AA/AF.

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Old Geek
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/1/2008 7:11:04 PM

Rating + 5 Great Card


Pros: this card is the most quiet (I wonder why :-) ) card I have owned. It works fast with little or now lag. Great card for the money.

Cons: None

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TommySan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/28/2008 9:00:45 PM

Rating + 5 This card vs 8800GT 512


Pros: Dead silent. 40 degrees C idle 50 degrees C under load in my case. $124.99 after rebate. Stable as a rock.
Cheap enough to buy two for SLI, but I'd probably buy standard fan models for that or add another case fan...

Cons: AC cooler seems to have been put together with less than usual fit and finish. Some pipe to fin connections seemed loose and the whole thing wasn't "square". It does, however, cool great for not having fan. It is freaking huge. Almost too tall to close my case. It fits in Antec P182, but just barely and that is a deep case.

Other Thoughts: I pulled out my 8800GT 512 to see if I'd notice a downgrade to this card in games. I played BF2, 2142, COD4 and ran 3dmark06. Games seemed identical at 1680x1050. 3dmark06 was down from 11400 range to 9300 range. Still very good for $124.99 card as my 8800 over 2X that price not 6 monthes ago. Left my AA at 8x and AF at 8x during gaming. Played fine. Should have run fraps to give ballpark FPS, but I didn't notice any real card induced lagginess or jerkiness.

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Gyles
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/28/2008 2:14:51 PM

Rating + 5 Gnarly!!


Pros: silent and cool, fits perfectly in antec p180

Cons: none, make sure itll fit and you have proper cooling

Other Thoughts: some heatsink measurements would be nice

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Mr. Derp
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/26/2008 11:06:51 PM

Rating + 4 Glad I Waited


Pros: Silent.
Great card for the money = value.
Excellent performance.
Decent build quality.

Cons: It is NOT 680MHz as they claim!
Physically large - may not fit in some cases.
Heat could be an issue in poorly ventilated cases.

Other Thoughts: I've waited a long time to replace my old ATi X800XL card, and I'm glad I waited. The performance for the price is nothing short of amazing. I went from a 3DMark06 score of 1800 to 8533, and it will play all the latest games. I would give it 5 stars if it ran at 680MHz as advertised.

This card has breathed new life into my old system so that I can wait at least another year or two before upgrading.
Specs:
Chaintech VNF4-Ultra
Opteron 170 OC 2.4Ghz
2GB PC3200 DDR

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Blacktree
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/21/2008 5:02:01 PM

Rating + 5 Mikey Likes It!


Pros: I bought this model because of the silent cooling device... no whiny fans! The performance is also pretty respectable. It doubled my 3dmark05 score, compared to the 7900GS that it replaced.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Depending on which computer case you have, the heatpipe cooler may or may not fit. It sticks out about 2 inches beyond the side of the video card.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/21/2008 4:55:48 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Silent, fast, relatively cheap. Tested Unreal Tournament 3 and Call of Duty 4, runs acceptable on high settings at 1440x900 paired with 2gb of DDR2-1066 ram and a E7200CPU. Fits happily in a Coolermaster Centurion case, which I also bought from newegg.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Idles at around 50 degrees Celsius according to Nvidia Monitor. Have played hours of GPU intense games with no sign of overheating.

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Datech
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/21/2008 12:48:37 PM

Rating + 5 Great!


Pros: Great quality! Resolution is amazing, and it really is a absolutely huge display size.

Cons: Don't use the speakers.

Other Thoughts: If you want a great upgrade for a good price, go with this.

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lazywilde
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/13/2008 3:37:20 PM

Rating + 5 Looking good


Pros: A giant step up from my 7600GT. I was able to crank every thing up on Assassin's Creed to max where it was chugging along on the lowest settings with my old card. It's completely silent. Stays at about 57C for the time being. We'll see how it gets once the extra fans and heat sink for my processor have arrived.

Cons: Like everyone else has said, it's huge. I had to tie back a few cables, but as long as you have a decent size case, it should fit. But, if you want some real power, you gotta expect a card like this to have some heft to it. Just make sure you have enough room in your case. The card also doesn't clock in at the advertised speeds, so if you don't know anything about overclocking, just be forewarned.

Other Thoughts: I have a Pentium D 820, so I was planning on upgrading that along with the card. After installing this card, I've realized I can wait on the processor upgrade. It'll be nice to have some extra speed eventually, but this card gave me the exact boost I needed for the time being. I'm definitely a happy camper.

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Jpeezy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/13/2008 2:21:38 AM

Rating + 5 Excellent Midrange Card!


Pros: This card is a rock star! Have been running it 24/7 for a month and it is rock solid. Temps stay at an acceptable range and it is silent! Other people are saying it is huge, but really it's not that big compared to some other cards. It is not as long as the 8800's and fits in my Antec P180 perfectly without blocking the upper HD cage like the 8800's do.

Cons: Zero cons. If you are thinking of getting this card do it.

Other Thoughts: Can play almost all games on max settings without breaking a sweat, have not tried it with Crysis yet.

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g
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/12/2008 8:29:02 AM

Rating + 5 loves it


Pros: Not a huge gaming enthusiast, but I do like the occasional foray into and FPS. This thing MANHANDLES Bioshock. The most important thing to me was silence as I am a musician and I record on my PC sometimes. Obviously this card doesn't make a peep. All the power and none of the noise.

Cons: Yeah, it's a giant, but that's nothing you couldn't figure out from other reviews. I have the Ultra Aluminus Case and it fit in there well. The power cord to the card was a snug fit and it made a couple wires to the motherboard a little bit tighter but nothing major

Other Thoughts: NOTE: You need to plug this thing in!! I know that's obvious to many of you and I probably sound like an idiot, but my 2 cards before this did not need direct power, so I didn't even think of that. I put in an RMA request before I realized my stupidity.
In closing: If you hate noise, like (if not love) high-end gaming, and have the room in the case, get it. One look at Bioshock at 1280x1024 and highest detail was enough to make me fall in love.

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l2emix07
Tech Level: somewhat low
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/10/2008 12:54:26 AM

Rating + 5 Awesome video card.


Pros: 1. Performance after OC (725/1000/1650) is about that of 8800GT's at stock.
2. This card makes no noise AT ALL!!
3. Runs cooler than what I expected.

Cons: The heatsink on this card is HUGE. Make sure you can fit this into your case.

Other Thoughts: If you want silence, buy it already!!

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maxreuter55
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/8/2008 2:10:35 PM

Rating + 5 Gread deal!


Pros: I choose this card mainly because of the passive Arctic Cooling system. This card meats all my expectations. It runs games really great. Also works good with my dual screens(DVI)
Temperature wise everything is ok it idles at 34°C or so and doesn't get higher than 49°C. Im overall very satisfied even though its a little more pricey than the cheapest 9600 chips.

Cons: The giant cooler did not fit into my Dell Optiplex case because it was just to big. Changed case and everything works perfectly.

Other Thoughts: I have been running this with a P4 HT 3.0GHz and im waiting for my new Core (2.4 Quad Core from newegg of course) and then I will hopefully get everything out of this beast.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/6/2008 3:55:26 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Fast, silent, affordable, dual DVI, HDMI adapter. I got this to replace my aging 6600GT- quite an improvement. Now I can run games that were released after 2004! With a slight overclock to 700MHz, this GPU idles at 38ºC in my case with two low speed 120mm case fans and a 120mm CPU fan.

Cons: It's really long, especially with the 6-pin power connector coming off of the end of it (I had to move a hard drive to make it fit in my Antec P180 case). I'm sure they'll get shorter in the future.

Not sure how well you could set up SLi with the massive heatsink blocking a direct path. I personally don't care, but it might be a concern for potential buyers.

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McMoo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/6/2008 8:06:02 AM

Rating + 5 9600 GT


Pros: Good, fast card. It makes no noise because it only has a huge heat sink, no fan. It runs TF2 at about 60fps when settings are max out at 1280x1024. Same with Bioshock.

Cons: Not 100% sure about the cooling system. Doesn't seem to be getting close overheating, but I might get a fan for it anyway.

Other Thoughts: Current system is, Intel Quad Core Q6600, Abit IX38 Quad GT Mobo, Geforce 9600 GT, 4GB G.Skill pc8500 ram, Samsung 320GB spin point HD.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/3/2008 1:04:50 PM

Rating + 4 great card


Pros: great card runs cooler than cards with fans.

Cons: ecs doesn't have a driver or utilities that support 64 bit windows. not realy a big deal had to go to nvida to download 64 bit driver. now card only runs at 650 and 900. you can download ntune and run at correct speed but you have to reset it everytime you boot up

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/2/2008 11:29:34 PM

Rating + 4 Cool, Fast, Silent


Pros: Running in an antec sonata case with 1-120mm on med setting. Runs 40C idle, upper 50's under load. Got 9953 3dmarks(06) in vista 64 with stock 650MHz clock. Overall I'm very happy. Full DX10, no fan noise, and good performance for the money spent.

GA-EP35C-DS3R
E2140@3.2
2x2gb g.skill ddr2-800
380watt antec earthwatts

Cons: 650mhz, not 680 clock.. didn't take too well to OC. I was hoping for 700ish, but it wasn't very stable. Heat was fine < 65C. Card not really worth overclocking, maybe a voltmod would help but I'm not planning on trying.

Other Thoughts: I've never dealt with ECS's RMA dept... so I can't speak to the warranty. Hopefully it keeps humming along so I won't have to find out :)

169 drivers didn't work at all for me (I used the vista ultimate 64 disc with SP1 baked in), but 174 beta and final have been flawless. Riva tuner is the only software I could use for clock adjustment in between the 9600 being new and vista 64 issues.

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Styln
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/2/2008 1:05:51 PM

Rating + 5 Very Cool


Pros: Excellent fanless cooling for a well ventilated case. Does not add noise to your kit. Good Direct X v10 performance at a reasonable price. Doesn't require a new power supply (I'm running it on an old Antec TruePower 380 W PS, 2 HDs, 2 GB mem, a DVD Burner, and 5 fans in an Antec 900 case w/o any stability problems (knock on wood)). Runs very very cool in 2D mode. For 3D, you probably gonna need some air flowing over the heatsink.

Cons: It is taller than the typical video card. I had to remove the top plastic cover so it would fit in an Antec 900 case w/the side panel fan installed. Even so, the fan does touch the heat sink. On the other hand, the air is blowing right on the heat sink! If you don't want to remove the top cover, you could go with a slot cooler. I've used Antec's 3 speed slot cooler in another application and it would work very well to keep this baby cool. My MB is a GA-P35-DS3L and the card covers up one of the 1xPCI-E slots.

Other Thoughts: ATI Tool yields 800 average FPS stock and 900 AVG FPS OC at 700/1100. This is close to what my 8800 GTS 320 does. The difference being this card cost 1/3 the price and it runs at half the temperature. Stock temps max out at 44C (ambient of 17C - so much for global warming :). OC temps max out at 47C. Very happy with this card for average gaming.

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RunsWithAliens
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/30/2008 11:36:58 AM

Rating + 5 quiet, cool and fast


Pros: Quiet without a fan of course, also no chip whine noise that some other recent GeForce cards have been reported to have. The 9600gt seems plenty powerful enough at the resolutions I run in games on my old 21" crt monitor (1280x960). I have tried the Bioshock, Crysis and MS FSX demos and it does fine at high quality settings.

Cons: Does need some air flow to maintain cool temps although even with low air flow it didn't heat up to dangerous levels.

Other Thoughts: When I initially installed this in my new quiet computer build the temp was getting up to 79c during stress testing. To increase air flow between card and heatsink I removed the clips and bent the heat pipes so the fins are hanging down slightly at about a 20 degree angle from the card (I don't have any cards in lower slots to get in the way). I also moved the 92mm fan I had at front of the case directly inside about 6 inches to the back of the drive bay area so that a stronger breeze was blowing into video card area. This made all the difference in the world as under stress testing now card only gets to 47c and immediately cools back down at end of test! Under normal gaming it doesn't even get that warm. Amazing, and that is with the Scythe 92mm fan spinning at a quiet 1250rpm.

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piako
Tech Level: average
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/29/2008 8:59:46 PM

Rating + 4 ok card


Pros: giant heat sink. decent fps performance, so ymmv depending on the games you play and the resolution. ok overclockability (stable @ 750).

Cons: tried for 800 but it didn't run at all. memory cooling a little bad. you may see a jump in temp with very little memory oc because all the chips have are paste-on little heat sinks.

newegg needs to work on their shipping. the box this came in was 4-5 times the size of the product box. the video card box was settled all the way on the bottom so all that foam and box did uselesss. also this required a mir for the rebate instead of instant, which is also not good.

Other Thoughts: underclocked to 600 the card idles around 55C with no fan. at 750/1000 with case fans activated it runs around 43C. do not rec. to use this card w/o case fans or a little ambient air going during gaming. ok to use when not gaming w/ no fan.

consumes less power than 8xxx so that's good. the 9xxx series is a large pcb so be ready for giantness.

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jmccorm
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/29/2008 8:15:17 PM

Rating + 4 Nice card, but could they make it any bigger?!


Pros: Absolutely no noise. Zero. You can't get quieter than this card. Performance is good... what you'd expect for a mildly overclocked 9600 GT.

I thought the PureVideo HD would be a wasted feature (not in the 8600 models), but it gave some improvement to some of the videos I tried it on (less stairstep brightness gradients and compression noise). I'm a bit too much of a purist to leave the image sharpening on, but it sharpened the image very nicely and brought out some good details. (In an extremely noisy or low quality video, the edge enhancement ends up bringing out flaws in the video.)

Cons: Clocking was less than advertised. I went through their installation CDs, but ended up with 650 (vs 680) core clock, and 1625 memory clock (vs 1900). Is this a newegg mistake or the manufacturer? I don't know, because the spec was nowhere on the package, in the manual, or on the CD. But the large sticker on the radiator says it says a 'superior overclocking capability', providing 20% more cooling than conventional fans.

And speaking of the radiator... it covered the next slot over (wide card) but worse, it was too tall. It wouldn't fit in my case (Dell Inspiron 530). What I ended up doing was taking the rubber bracket off of the top of the radiator. With some force, the case will now close. Perhaps, in a way, that gives even better cooling, since the radiator will now also use the case itself as a heat sink! But I plan to get a dremel tool after it to shave a bit off of the two bolts sticking up and hitting against the side panel of the case.

Other Thoughts: A decent enough card. Its major benefit (if you are comparing against other 9600s) is the no-noise radiator, and the additional cooling which would potentially allow for a bit more overclocking than a stock model.

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marx
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/27/2008 12:39:47 PM

Rating + 5 what a nice quiet relief


Pros: wow. quiet of course. very good performaing card. i'm not a Frames per second junkie. as long as games are smooth. price is awesome.

Cons: it does take up space.

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JMan
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/26/2008 8:54:42 PM

Rating + 3 Good card, bad design


Pros: Runs great, runs fast, very unique fan-less heatsink that greatly reduces heat

Cons: It's same pro, the heatsink, is it's greatest con. I wish I had known the true height of this before I bought it. Hits the side-panel of my Antec 900, and had to remove the side fan for it to fit.

Near impossible to run in a Sli configuration due to the massive heatsink that extends several inches above the card. I bought a 6 inch long flexible Sli bridge, and it's still not long enough to join the two cards since you have to have the Sli bridge go over the heatsink.

It's a hassle, and just not worth it. Don't get me wrong, just one of these babies was killer. But have my heart set on Sli, and will be sending these two cards back, and buying a different 9600 GT pair.

Other Thoughts: Just be sure that your boards x16 slots aren't too far. If my second x16 slot was just a little bit closer to the other, it would fit.

<---- using a BFG 680i Sli LT Motherboard.

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chexi
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/26/2008 7:57:06 AM

Rating + 1 Too Tall


Pros: Don't know, because I cannot use this card as it is too tall for a standard ATX desktop case.

Cons: I bought this card specifically for its silence to use in my HTPC, which resides in a standard size desktop ATX case. However, the passive heatsink is at least 1/2" too tall to fit in my HTPC and put the case back together. I thought I had found the perfect card for my HTPC, but it turns out to be just another disappointment in what is quickly becoming a terrible day.

Other Thoughts: From the top of the bracket, I measure 2 1/34 to the top of the Heatsink. Measure your clearance before you buy.

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cdn_rn
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/25/2008 2:08:14 PM

Rating + 5 Best SLi under $300


Pros: Runs COD4 at max settings never drops below 90fps. I can't wait to try Vegas 2.

Cons: None

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Osho
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/24/2008 8:38:48 PM

Rating + 3 Good hardware, not good enough drivers


Pros: I bought the ECS N9600GT-512MX-P for use in my HTPC. The primary purpose of the card was to display OTA ATSC TV signal, watch Blu-ray-DVDs and play DVDs. I also play games occasionally so gaming performance was important to me. I bought this card because it offers decent gaming performance while being completely silent - which was extremely important for me in a HTPC.

The card has performed OK so far. The integrated fanless heating solution really works well without making the case, CPU or power-supply fan overwork. I have had no issues with system instability.

The performance in a few games that I have tried is also pretty decent. I play games at 1920x1080 (HDTV resolution) and the frame-rate is acceptable in most games with High quality settings.

Cons: I have 2 primary complaints about this card:

1. Make sure that your case can fit the oversized heat sink! I have a horizontal desktop HTPC-case (as opposed to the more common vertical tower cases). The heat sink protrudes a few inches from the top of the PCB of the graphic card. The heat sink also will make you lose one slot on your motherboard. So, make sure your case can fit this giant heat sink before you purchase this card.

2. I am very unhappy with support for HDTVs in Nvidia drivers. Specifically, the overscan support is very horrible and immature compared to the ATI drivers. I had ATI card for last 5-6 years in this HTPC and ATI supported my HDTV much better.

Other Thoughts: I think this is an excellent piece of hardware. The price is also pretty good - particularly with the $25 rebate going on currently. There is a lot of good value here as Nvidia and ATI both continue to push price/performance.

If you plan to use this graphics card in a regular PC usage setting, I would recommend it. If you plan to use it with HDTV or in any "non-standard" way - make sure that Nvidia drivers are competent enough for your intended use.

And one last thing - make sure your case can fit this card :).

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saint4God
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/23/2008 5:38:08 AM

Rating + 5 Smooth as ice, ramp it up!


Pros: Games (especially MMORPG's) are getting very demanding on video these days. It is so nice to get this card and ramp up all the settings. I'm thinking "Let's see if I can break it" and it runs toe to toe with everything I tell it to do. This is a gamer's card at a great price.

Cons: It looks funny X-D

Other Thoughts: No fan? I don't know if it's a good or bad thing...but since it runs well I think it's a good thing.

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HydroSqueegee
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/22/2008 9:55:26 AM

Rating + 5


Pros: Fanless, Excellent framerates

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Outstanding card. Plays everything i throw at it flawlessly and in complete silence. Cant be happier with this card.

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Rockstone
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/21/2008 2:27:23 PM

Rating + 3 Good but bottlenecked


Pros: Simply put, the video card runs games well, especially considering that it has to compensate for a cheap CPU, cheap motherboard and x8 bandwidth. The video card has been able to launch me into the beautiful world of direct x 10, and allow me to have a super-modern PC.

Cons: Good, but don't buy and expect to run games at 50 fps without a good motherboard and CPU. While I came from a 6800 GT, the results were still... far below my expectations. Also, Crysis runs at about 23 fps on high with a few minor tweaks. I had to dual boot to XP for the first time to actually notice an improvement, it ran at 8 fps at the same settings on vista.

Other Thoughts: I just need a new motherboard and eventually CPU. I guess I'm stuck with AMD and my slightly over clocked 4000+X2 black edition.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/20/2008 8:38:56 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: SLI is not a LIE!
You can use the standard SLI bridge that comes with your mobo on this, just slide it in.

Cons: Bases card clock on PCIE bus speed, so if it's even slightly overclocked you may have problems. My EVGA123 mobo had it at 126 for some reason, and I got tons of weird crashes/freezes. Had to update mobo to a version that would let me change it.

Other Thoughts: Running great now.

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JBRogers
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/19/2008 6:04:11 AM

Rating + 5 Bye, bye AGP


Pros: Silent and fast. 3DMark06 ~ 9000 on stock E4500 with 2GB RAM.

Cons: Not a one.

Other Thoughts: Staggering upgrade from my 7800GS. No more noise. If you have more than 2" clearance between the card bracket screw and the side of your case, it will fit. I have it in 7.5" wide Ultra Grid case and it's great - 37C idle and hits 60C under gaming load. Works great in WinXP Pro and Ubuntu 8.04b with Compiz.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/18/2008 3:45:26 AM

Rating + 5 Fast and silent


Pros: Silent, fast, not a power hog – runs fine with my old 350W power supply.
What a difference compared to my old Radeon 1300 pro.
Best upgrade for your old rig for the money

Cons: Fairly big dimensions, make sure you got room, had to remove 1 IDE connector.
Clocked at 650 not advertised 680.
Weak manual and software package.

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nate birkas
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/17/2008 3:19:11 PM

Rating + 5 Great Upgrade


Pros: Very Very Fast! It will definately play ANY game out there, and most of them at MAX settings!! no overheating and no messy crashes because of it.

Cons: big... huge actually, make sure you gots plenty of room :)

Other Thoughts: great card for 150 bux

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/17/2008 1:18:34 PM

Rating + 5 Silence!


Pros: Fanless, air cooling! You get total silence from this card and it still runs at the usual "fanned card" temperatures...provided you have a nice roomy, well ventilated case.

Cons: Large cooler sticks out about 2.5 inches beyond the card itself. Make sure you have room for it.

Other Thoughts: There was no game bundle or anything with it, but it did come with all the wires and adapters you might need.

I got a nice laugh from the guy whose review said it was so quiet he had to lean over and check to make sure the fan was working...like when you tell someone to check the antifreeze level/radiator on a 1969 VW Beetle.

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markkleb
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/14/2008 3:22:29 PM

Rating + 5 Fricken Awesome!


Pros: LOL, it runs 36c in my case. Silent and the cooler takes up less space than my 8800GT versions with the big coolers.

Cons: Cooler isant black

Other Thoughts: I just ordered another for SLI, what an excellent card and now there is even a rebate.

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Afroman
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/13/2008 9:18:52 PM

Rating + 5 Booyah


Pros: It's a very fast card for a very low price. It is the only card you can get in this performance class that is SILENT. The ram chips have little heatsinks on them as well. After playing COD4 for 12 hours straight with perfect stability, I have full faith in this card's cooling design. No fans means i'll never have to worry about replacing a dying, dust clogged fan 2 years from now.

Cons: You lose an expansion slot because the heatsink is big and thick. Also, I am not sure if it is possible to do SLI on this card because the heatsink seems to be blocking the place where you would plug in the connector cable. However I don't even feel the need to do SLI because I am able to play every game at 1900x1200, high detail with high fps.

Other Thoughts: Just be aware that you lose space for an expansion slot as the tradeoff for having a totally silent solution. For me, it was totally worth it. I have never been so happy with a video card in my life. I am kicking myself for not getting one sooner.

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J
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/12/2008 1:56:43 AM

Rating + 1 bad AX


Pros: no need fan...

Cons: big fat bad AX....
SLI cannot even run BF2 WTH

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aramid
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/11/2008 9:34:35 AM

Rating + 5 Perfect


Pros: This card is perfect. The performance is excellent; more than enough for the games I play - Guild Wars and Portal, both at 1600x1200 with all the settings on high, play smoothly. Guild wars never drops below 60 FPS and Portal rarely drops below 40, but usually runs at 50-60 (I have a 60Hz LCD, so my framerates never go above 60).

The preinstalled Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 is also fantastic - this card is running 56 degrees C under load, with only a single, low-speed case exhaust fan providing any airflow.

Cons: Card is fairly large. No more so than any other performance graphics card, but make sure you know what you're getting into.

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smooth
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/9/2008 7:20:03 PM

Rating + 5 Awesome


Pros: COD4 runs 60 fps all high settings,set idle at 40-42 and 2 hours in cod4 highest temp was 61 this is celsius temps....im in an old hp 1600 n with 3 gig 4200 pc2 and agi 430 watt psu was gonna up my cpu from a 3800 amd to a 5000 but really no need with this awesome card...

Cons: NONE!!!!!!!

Other Thoughts: fast shipping from newegg love the card !!!!!!!

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willie
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/6/2008 4:45:42 PM

Rating + 5 sweet


Pros: 150 dollers and passive. i went from a 7600 to this and wow! i can play crysis on med coh,cod4,prostreet and timeshift maxxed

Cons: a lil big but whatever

Other Thoughts: 10,000 3d marks w/5000+x2(be) @2.95 , 4 gig @850hz,this card @ 700/2000

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pcmaster
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
4/5/2008 12:32:19 PM

Rating + 5 Smart build


Pros: This card is too nice so its get 5 eggs from me instead of usually 4(4 eggs give change to grown up).
Smart build-passive cooling which lowers card price with safe on fan and safe the users funds too because u don't buy fan and passive cooling use zero power which gives this baby more power efficiently and silent...

Cons: Elitegroup is made the elite Video card

Other Thoughts: Pay less get more

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Lever2k
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/4/2008 5:12:37 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: silent, fast, freaking huge cooler is great for overclocking. Heatsinks on the memory. Idles at 45 and gets up to 60 when playing 3d games.

Cons: I dont know about you guys but mine did not come factory overclock. However I did not install the drivers that came with the cd. I use the nvidia drivers dated april 1. It doesn't matter cause I use atitools to overclock anyways. This thing is long and the cooler sticks up high. I had to remove my side case fan to make it fit. It also overlapped one of my ide connectors and I had to move the connector one over to make it fit. After installing this card my samsung magictune software stopped working and windvd 9 shows no picture.

Other Thoughts: Currently running at 700 core, 2000 mem, 1750 shader. Dont need to go any higher cause I dont have any recent games that can strain this card. My board is a epox nforce 4 ultra with pci express 1.0a.

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xvokt
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/3/2008 9:02:59 AM

Rating + 5 Very Nice Video Card


Pros: Its a very good card, works cool temperature around 45-48° Celsius.
Easy to Overclock from default to 700/1750/2000.

Accelero do good cooling job.

Cons: It doesnt comes overclocked as it says it comes like nvidia's default.
Accelero cooling make the card a little bit ugly and larger.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
4/3/2008 7:19:20 AM

Rating + 5 Great Product


Pros: I run this card passive in my P182 case at 38C! It never breaks 60C under load - what an amazing cooler. Saved me the hassle of eventually having to go out and get one myself. Runs Crysis all settings high well at 1680x1050.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: The memory doesn't come at 1900MHz, mine actually runs 1850MHz by default. Core is 680MHz as advertised. No big deal. I actually did a quick test to see how far the card could go and ended up with 750MHz on the core, 1800MHz on the shader, and 2052MHz on the memory. I haven't gone further as I run stock on a regular basis anyway.

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Isaac
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/3/2008 1:13:20 AM

Rating + 5 Great Experience in Silence


Pros: • Silent
• Performance - I wanted silence but was concerned about how much performance I'd be trading off... now that I own it, I don't worry as it works very well
• Value - The 9600GT series really hits a sweet spot with its price, silent or otherwise.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Installed in a Lian Li PC-7B and fit with plenty of room to spare. (Incidentally that case has a small grill on the side right over the cooler - seems to match the needs of the card quite well.)

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/2/2008 10:57:44 PM

Rating + 5 Great Deal********


Pros: This card came factory overclocked @ 680 mhz. The car was somewhat tricky to install in my Raidmaz Scorpio case but did clear. The drivers and software seam to work fine and I had no installation problems. By adding this card I up'd my 3D benchmark by just shy of double what I was getting with a Radeon 2600 XT. I paid only $20 more than what I paid for the Radeon just 6 months ago. This card will show you details in games I never saw before. It plays COD4 on highest settings with good frame rates and after gaming for an hour the Temp never got above 47* C. The aerocooler works well and the card doesn't use a lot of power.

Cons: The only real con if it is one is that this card is long and wide with the Aerocooler, but it's not really a con because it seams to do a great job cooling. If you deside to buy you need a decent case with room.

Other Thoughts: I ordered this on Sunday afternoon and had it Wednesday morning before 9 am, New Egg is awesome. My system is a AMD socket 939 Opteron 165, with 2 Gigs of PQI 3200 ram, on a Foxconn N-Force4 Ultra MB. I was an avid ATI supporter, but this card is just smoking for the money.

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Dumbcomputers
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/2/2008 12:45:22 PM

Rating + 5 Great card but didn't come factory overclocked


Pros: Price is outstanding considering that the passive cooler runs for $20 if you purchased it separately. Easily overclocks to 680/925 with pre-installed cooler. HDTV output much improved over 8-series. Performance almost in 8800GT (G92) territory at a price which is 25% less.

Cons: Cooler is massive. People should verify that it will work in their case before buying. Did not come factory overclocked like all the reviews say it does. Even the ECS website says it runs at 650MHz. They must have change this very recently. This is not a huge problem since you can use software to overclock it if you are so inclined.

Other Thoughts: Best Bang for the Buck.

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Lord Platypus
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/31/2008 5:50:28 AM

Rating + 5 very pleased


Pros: Fast, runs Crysis at high settings at 1680x1050 resolution. Handles everything else I've thrown at it without breaking a sweat. Runs source engine games at max settings with 16xAA and 16xAnisotropic filtering. Heatsink keeps it very cool.

Cons: the heatsink is huge. I have a NZXT apollo case and I had to remove the window fan to fit the side back on. Make sure you have room for it.

Other Thoughts: Very happy with the price performance ratio. If you have a high profile chipset cooler, you'll have to replace it with a low profile one to use this card.

system specs: Asus A8N-SLI, AMD Athlon X2 3800+, 2gig ram, 2x 250gig Seagate hdd in raid 0, ultra xfinity 500w psu

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redbird
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2008 7:06:28 PM

Rating + 5 Quick Update


Pros: See Other

Cons: See Other

Other Thoughts: Just a quick update to my original review, I did go ahead and install the turbo module and what a difference that makes. Idle temps are now 32-34 c. and under full load they hit 45 C. and stay right there. The fans are so quite I have to open the case to make sure they are running. This thing is just right for a quiet solution.

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lippnc
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2008 5:08:46 AM

Rating + 5 Great card!


Pros: Uses the Accelero 2 cooler - quiet fans avail here at the egg for 8 bucks plus shipping. Passive cooling works wonderfully for me - idling at 48 and under full load game 61 (using Everest for temps)! Nice. I have no case fans either, but I do have an aluminum case.

Cons: None so far! My build: Asus P5N-E with E2180 Oc'd to 2.8 (10x280 at stock voltage/stock cooler), 2 GB Kingston Value DDR800, Coolmax AP-550X (I know, cheapy PS!)

Other Thoughts: Stock speeds are 680/1728/1850, and all review sites confirmed this before I purchased (tweaktown, guru3d, tbreak, and ocworkbench). Card is lightning fast and the cheapest available. Haven't owned an ECS product since that all in one MB 1st PC purchase back in '99 and it blew. This card however, will make me consider ECS for future purchases.

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redbird
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/28/2008 4:05:10 AM

Rating + 5 Nice card


Pros: As you can see in the pictures it has no fan and uses the Arctic Cooling Accelero S2. So it goes without saying the thing makes no noise and does a good job of keeping the card cool, my idle temperatures are 47 C. and under load, using the Video Card Stability Card Test, from the The Freestone Group and running it for 30 minutes, temperature rose to 70 C. well within specs. After the test, temperatures fell back to 47 C. after about three minutes. It plays Oblivion at 1680x1050 widescreen just fine and that's just about the most demanding game I have. Video playback is great and watching TV using media center is very clear. The benchmark results show 460 FPS for what that's worth, just a few behind the 8800GT reference board at quite a bit less money.

Cons: None really for me.

Other Thoughts: I did also pick up one of the Arctic Cooling Turbo Modules but it looks like I may not need it although I will eventually put it on as the weather warms up.

I also considered the ECS 8800GT version with the Accelero S1 but for the difference in price even considering the 8800GT version has a good rebate going, I went with this one and am pleased with it.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
3/27/2008 10:38:16 PM

Rating + 5 FYI


Pros: See other thoughts..

Cons: See other thoughts..

Other Thoughts: Just letting everyone know that Arctic Cooling(among others..) sells an extended, flexible SLI cable to make up for the size of this cooler. Just head over to their website and look under VGA Coolers > Accelero S2 > Compatibility.

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john
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/25/2008 8:49:14 PM

Rating + 3 Watch out for case size


Pros: Silent and factory OC at a very good price. It's the reasons I originally purchased it.

Cons: I have an Antec 900 case (yea, I know, not exactly silent with all the fans) with a Gigabyte p35-ds3p motherboard and the cooler extends too far off the card for it. It hits the GPU fan on the case by about 1/2" and the case refuses to shut- comes close, but just won't make it. The cooler could be modded relatively easy by removing a strip or two of the aluminum and shaving off some of the copper heatsink pipe, but I don't have any tools to cut copper.

Other Thoughts: While I'm sure the cooler rocks, watch out for the dimensions of the cooler. It creates a lot more width than I had anticipated.

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my-kull
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/25/2008 7:18:12 PM

Rating + 5 5 stars ECS!


Pros: costs was less than other 9600gt', came with an accelero s2 cooler, runs crysis at 1440x900 with all high setting, just under 10,000 in 3dmark06, way better than my 8600gt( ill be selling now). I have to say that ecs has outdone themselves with this graphics card.This card can actually run on a 430 watt power supply, so low power consumption! While running crysis i got 30-45 fps constantly. Aside from that, the accelero s2 cooler is awesome, i maintain 37 degreees celcius( read con) even at load!

Cons: Well i did just say 37 degrees celcius! I have read quite a few reviews and have heard that this card can go up to 100 degrees celcius, i thought that is too high and after installing saw that the edge of the card rubs on my case door. I removed the door and am cooling the case with a 18 inch fan to prevent overheating! So there you go, this card has no cons that i am aware of and would tell anyone that using this card without any sort of additional cooler ( 80mm fan) blowing air thru the heatsink, you might have high temps.

Other Thoughts: ECS has never really appealed to me. When i first saw this card i was right about to buy a evga 8800gs, then thought i'd take a chance. Sure enough, I am 100% satisfied with this product. some people might complain that you have to use a fan separately on the heatsink to drop temps, but come on this card was 150 bucks with an accelero s2! deals dont get much better people!
Intel e4500 @2.66Ghz, ECS 9600gt, 1 gig A-Data @887Mhz, gigabyte 610i, 160gb HD, Thermaltake 430w.

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Just a reviewer
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/21/2008 3:05:27 PM

Rating + 4 Silent, But Possibly Deadly


Pros: 1. Silent.
2. Works like advertised with drivers downloaded from the Nvidia website.

Cons: 1. Quickly went up to 93c for the ATITool Artifacts test.
2. Actual memory speed is 1850 instead of the advertised spec of 1900.
3. May need a fan in some cases.
4. Heatsink is not an Accelero S1 with 4 heatpipes and does not have the turbo fan included like the ECS 8800GT version. (Not technically a con.)

Other Thoughts: 1. ECS told me the 9600GT is rated to run at 100c. I don't know how long it can go at a constant 100c, but I don't want to test its limits at such a high temp.

I got this card because I wanted something totally silent. The MSI N9600GT 512M OC is pretty quiet, but not silent because its fan has a light rattling noise to it.

However, in my case (pardon the pun), the airflow is minimal because I undervolted all of my case fans, so even with the large heatsink, the card runs extremely hot when running ATITool's Artifacts test.

I decided to get a silent fan to blow a slight amount of air through the Accelero heatsink. Fortunately, the Accelero does not require that much air for it to stay below 70c, but the fact that I had to get some air blowing through the heatsink defeats the reason for getting a passive cooling solution.

2. I didn't overclock this; I am not looking for the fastest card, but the most reasonable performance with the quietest card for a decent price.

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DivineBaboon
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
3/14/2008 7:28:39 PM

Rating + 5 um you can't use a normal SLI conenctor


Pros: for the two guys posted before me,here's the answers. No you can not use a normal SLI connector with this card. You have to buy an extra long connector off the arctic cooliing site. And no,you CANNOT bend the fins,what so ever. the cooler on it is called Arctic cooling Accelero S1,just google "arctic cooling accelero s1 compatibility",click the first link that domes up,and read up. Next time please do some research before posting silly comments like "oh you can just bend the fins lol"

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: accordign to the reviews of the Accelero S1 cooelr on the internet, it beats all the default nvidia stock cooling solutions. And if you add the Turbo module fans(sold on newegg too),it wil lfurther reduce the temperture to incredible amounts. Just do a quick google.

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Krown
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
3/14/2008 3:18:42 PM

Rating + 5 Uh?


Pros: I don't own but had to weigh in on the first comment. Great specs and plan on purchasing a pair of these or the bros of this one the 8800gt.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Why cant you just look out side the box and bend a couple of fins to fit the bridge through to make the SLI work. Come on people use some common sense.

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Tech7
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
3/13/2008 9:38:05 AM

Rating + 3 Card *looks* cool


Pros: The specs are great

Cons: I hve not purchased this card but I can see one major flaw for those of you who wish to use SLI. The heat sink will get in the way of using the connector. Just an FYI

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