gainvard 9600gt 166,00 EUR

[Tech9]

http://www.litec-computer.de/PC-Komponenten/Grafikkarten/PCI-express/nVidia/Gainward-BLISS-GeForce-9600GT-512MB-GDDR3-2xDVI-TVout::15201.html

is this thing cheap?

[Dop3KinG]

Gainvard:confused:

[Tech9]

ok GAINWARD, i was typing fast

[wolf]

sounds pretty fair to me, i like gainward too

[Judas]

Sounds about right to me :)

[Paulieg]

Gainward makes nice cards, especially their "Golden Samples". Seems like a reasonable, but not great deal.

[largon]

http://geizhals.at/eu/?fs=9600+512&in=&x=0&y=0
Cheapest Gainward 9600GT 512MB
152€

Cheapest 9600GT 512MB (XFX 9600GT 650M)
138€

[Tech9]

will my psu handle a 9600gt?

[largon]

What's the 12V rating on that thing?

[Tech9]

12v rating is 14 amps

[largon]

I reckon 14A is not enough to run it stable as this thing draws ~8A at peaks @ stock leaving only 6A for CPU until the spec would be exceeded. I wouldn't dare overload a generic PSU.

[Titus]

IMO, so great looking heatsink. :)

[wolf]

yeah , ive overloaded a 450w generic psu with my 6800 Ultra OC, not a fun experience, im really lucky it didnt take any components with it...

any brand name 500+w should do the trick if you dont need lots of power.

[Titus]

I've just bought an Antec True Power Trio 550W for my brand new rig. That's right it's not the last Antec PSU release and i question me about its capacity to drive some cards as 9600GT ( or my 8800 GS ;) ) in O/C values ???
XFX advocate 500W and more PSU. I know that O/C requires more juice ...

It will be interesting testing these new cards consumption using standard ( no brand ) PSU and brand PSU, in stock and O/C tunigs ;)