EVGA GeForce 9600 GSO DirectX 10 015-P3-N969-LR 1536MB 192-Bit DDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card

Pros: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit didn't have one problem with it. After I booted the pc up and windows loaded it already had the drivers but i loaded them anyways upon reboot from the CD just to make sure. For $84.99 this card is not worth that price... but -$20 and the -$30 mail in rebate makes this card a whopping ~$34.99~ and for that price it is indeed worth it. The card runs fine with games like COD WW and COD MW2 with all settings on max with High Detail and Shaders at 1124 (Widescreen). I haven't tested Fallout 3 or Bad Company 2 yet but I am sure it will be fine on 1124 res. HUGE upgrade from my onboard ATI 256ram 64bit, it was good enough to play these games on low settings but with this card to dominates these games on decent settings. Doesn't use a ton of energy and the fan isn't that loud. My Exhaust fans are louder on the side and top of the chasis.

Cons: The size of the card made me say 'Woah...' when I took it out of the box. Its a big boy and long to boot but It installed easy enough for a newbie to install it without problems. I hate dealing with Mail-in-rebates, but for $30 bucks I will deal with it :-D.

Overall Review: Couldn't get the EVGA Over-clocking Software it came with to work with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Fraps didn't have a serial. These are Cons but they didn't hurt my gaming experience. And if I really need these programs I am sure I could find a way to make it work eventually. System: Asus MD with 4 ram slots, 1xPCIE, 3xPCI, 1xPCIm made for Dual Core Athlon II and lower. 3.2 GHZ AMD Athlon II Dual Core 5Gigs DDR2 RAM 1066 EVGA Geforce 9600GSO 1.5GB 192-bit DDR2 PCIE2 800Gig Green power Seagate HD (Master) 250Gig HD for transferring files from comp to comp. 30Gig HD for restore DVD-CD Burner x64 ~incoming Blueray reader/burner 400wat PowerSupply

Pros: Price - If you get it during a deal for $35 or less. Quiet

Cons: 'Oddball' configuration of 1.5 GB DDR2 memory - low performance compared with other 9600 GSO products.

Overall Review: Well it's all about price. At the right price it's a perfectly good video card. Otherwise there are better choices and this card should be avoided. I get a 3Dmark06 score of about 6500. Very good when compared to most cards priced below $40. This compares badly though with other 9600 GSO products though (score of 8700). About the shell-shocker rebate - The second label required besides the UPC on box is located on the back of the hardware card. As some other reviewers noted the sticker is perforated and requires extreme care to peel off. I imagine a lot of people will get ripped off on the rebate. If you are still looking I'd recommend checking out the discounted 9800 gt cards which are 2x as fast as this and are currently going for about $50 (here at NewEgg)

Pros: Very nice medium end card. Super quiet. Easy to install. Easy to overclock with EVGA Precision. Nice price for an even nicer card.

Cons: Slightly bigger then my last card so there was some power cable movement necessary.

Overall Review: A very nice, easy to overclock quiet card. I bought this one to replace my old one which had a loud and dying fan. I can actually hear myself thinking with this super quiet card

Pros: This card is a great buy. At the time I got it, there was a rebate and instant savings. the price came down to ~$35. It runs any of the games from the HL2 engine at max settings without a hitch. Prototype and Mass Effect run fast and smooth at very high settings and 1280x1024. Global Agenda showed the biggest improvement, as I could switch to DX10 mode without the game slowing to a crawl. (GA is the first game to give me DX10 problems). I was previously using a 8600gt-xxx by XFX. This was a great card, but it died, as I put it under a lot of stress over the course of 4 years. This card doesn't have require an extra power cable to be plugged into it due to its lower power requirements. This helps me keep the case free of clutter. It runs nice and quiet as far as I can tell. Any time I'm not wearing headphones, I have a game going on my speakers, but I HAVE noticed loud cards in the past.

Cons: When I get a HD monitor I probably won't be able to run all my games (like Mass Effect) at max settings. I'll prolly have to knock the settings down to medium-high.

Overall Review: Dual Core CPU E6300 @ 2.8GHz 2x2GB DDR2 800 ram 700W PSU ECS G41T-M motherboard

Pros: The vid card has worked great. I noticed a slight improvement over graphics from 8600 I had. I also just received the rebate in the mail from EVGA. It works well for what I wanted for this particular computer, which is just web browsing and watching videos and movies.

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: Newegg shipped the card quickly and without hassle. I always appreciate their service and prices. Thanks for the shellshockers and other bargains! I didn't have to contact EVGA for anything but they were prompt getting me the rebate and making it less of a hassle to get.

Pros: Very quiet and performs really well. I like the heatsink and fan combo on this one. I've owned a 9600 GSO before that had a cooler looking heatsink and fan but this one cools much better. I would prefer better cooling to cool looks any day :)

Cons: Not for enthusiast type gamers. Will not handle heavy graphic loads but does very well with minimum specs. No "eye candy" in newer games.

Overall Review: With the rebate, this cards' price/performance ration can not be beaten. Very good buy and if they keep this rebate going, I will be making a few more purchases.

Pros: -Very reasonable price. I got this on Shell Shocker, so it was quite cheap after MIR. -The EVGA precision utility is nice. It allows you to same multiple profiles. -I am able to run at 650Mhz core and 500Mhz memory clock with the fan at 90% and my core temp hits maybe 70c while playing Starcraft II. -I saved an underclocked (450 core, 300 memory) profile for use when web browsing, etc in the hopes of reducing heat output and power usage. When underclocked, GPU temperatures are about 5 degrees C lower.

Cons: - For the power, the card is quite large. I have an Intel motherboard and this card extends past the first two RAM slots. If I want to remove the RAM, the card must come out. This is not a big deal unless you are pulling out RAM all the time for some reason.

Overall Review: -The 1.5GB RAM on this card is not really needed. -This card offers CUDA acceleration. I use CoreAVC and I can play 1080p MKV files with less than 10% CPU usage on a Core2Duo 1.86Ghz chip. -Allows me to play Starcraft 2 at Ultra settings at 1680x1050, with a couple of items turned down due to my dated CPU.

Pros: Quiet, low power, good performance. Clock for clock it's quite a bit more powerful than the 8600GT.

Cons: The DDR Ram SEVERELY hampers this card. Overclocking the core does little to improve performance because of this, but overclocking the RAM gives huge returns on performance

Overall Review: I was able to overclock the ram from 400MHz (800 effective) to 522MHz (1044 effective) and saw a huge performance boost. Could've gone higher, but MSI Afterburner wouldn't let me (max freq was 522 for the RAM). At stock speeds, the bandwidth is rated at 19.2GB/s, and after the overclock it's roughly 24.5GHz (almost the same bandwidth as my 8600GT XXX edition). After increasing the memory bandwidth, I saw my average framerate in PCSX2 (running KH) increase from 110FPS to 140FPS. Would be a great performer if not for the RAM. Amount of ram is kind of pointless for the kind of horsepower this thing offers. It's not a professional card, so it doesn't have the optimized drivers, and resolutions even as high as 2560x1600 likely aren't going to take up more than 1GB of the onboard RAM.