ZOTAC GeForce 9600 GSO : Mainstream Graphics Card

ZOTAC is one of the famous manufacturer of Graphics Card, especially NVidia Graphic sCard. Zotac GeForce 9600 GSO relased soon after NVidia relasedGeForce 9600 GSO chipset. Actually it's a mainstream graphics card product.

Zotac GeForce 9600 GSO sale with the package sales, there are a DVI to VGA adapter, molex to 6pin power adapter, S-Video to RCA connector, CD Driver, manual, and DVI to HDMI adapter. By Included HDMI adapter is quite interesting because it can increase the compatibility in selecting a monitor to enjoy the High Definition movie format.

Fan installed in the standard graphics card is not noisy. The average temperature is about 33 degrees centigrade. This card also supports SLI with the availability of facilities SLI slot at the top of the graphics card. Unfortunately, the SLI bridge must be purchased separately.

Besides having a low enough temperature, the performance of this graphics card actually good in mainstream class. About overclocking, this graphic card is capable of improved performance with the overclocking. I have been read an article that tell about Zotac Geforce 9600 GSO Overclocking,he was overclocked this card at the core clock 750 mhz, 2200 mhz memory clock, Shader clock and 1875 mhz. The result is quite satisfactory performance with around 20 percent.

Overall ZOTAC GeForce 9600 GSO is a powerfull graphic card in mainstream class. It's offer a cheap enough price with a nice performance.

Detail Specification of Zotac Geforce 9600 GSO

Graphics Processing Unit

• NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 GSO @ 650/550 MHz engine clock
• 96/48 Stream Processors
• Dual 400 MHz RamDAC
• Max. Resolution @ 2560 x 1600
• True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting with 16x full- screen anti-aliasing

Memory

• 1GB/512MB/384MB GDDR3
• 1800/1600MHz memory clock
• 256/192-bit memory bus

Bus Support 

• PCI Express x16 2.0 (compatible with PCIe x16)

3D Acceleration

• Microsoft® DirectX®10 support
• Unified Shader Model 4.0
• OpenGL 2.1

Features

• NVIDIA Unified Architecture
• PureVideo™ HD Technology
• HDTV Ready
• Vista™ Ready
• SLI™ Ready
• HDCP Ready
• Full HD 1080p compatible
• Dual Link Dual DVI
• RoHS Compliant

External Connector

• Dual DVI-I Connector
• TV-Out (S-video) Connector

Available Models

• ZT-96SEW2P-FSL (96SP, 384MB GDDR3, 550 Eclk, 1600 Mclk, 192-bit, DVI, HDTV)
• ZT-96SES4P-FSL (48SP, 512MB GDDR3, 650 Eclk, 1800 Mclk, 256-bit, DVI, HDTV)
• ZT-96SEY4P-FSL (48SP, 1GB GDDR3, 650 Eclk, 1800 Mclk, 256-bit, DVI, HDTV)

Price : +- US$120