9600 GT 512 mb?

[Gilgamesh21]

hello everyone .

just asking around whether this mid-range card is much better than 8600 or does it have the same performance? and can this card hold up for some time befor it crumples for new high-end game,say like two years or so?

thanks

[michaewlewis]

I heard that the 9600 uses the same design as the 8600. They just changed the number to make people think it was the new thing.....

[saint_hades]

the 9600 has some new thing's

i think it's a bit better

if you want it's full power (speed), make sure you have a PCI-E x16 '''2.0''' slot on you motherboard

the 2.0 just make's it a bit faster

[homer]

hello everyone .

just asking around whether this mid-range card is much better than 8600 or does it have the same performance?

the 9600gt is about the equivalent of a 8800gt, so it will beat any 8600 model.

hello everyone .

 and can this card hold up for some time befor it crumples for new high-end game,say like two years or so?

hard to say. technology is improving so fast its difficult to tell.

[elxr06]

well 9600gt I think will support DX 10.1 whereas DX 10.

But well, I hear that 9800GT is going to come out and hopefully I'll be seeing these in the specs:

Memory Type： GDDR4 
Memory Size： 512MB 

And hopefully GDDR4 is for real just like GDDR3 was against GDDR2. People tell me that GDDR4 is barely better than GDDR3 and I hope that is not the case. Also when Nvidia implements Aegis's physX technology into their cards that would be awesome.

I wouldn't buy a separate PhysX card but to use it whenever necessary for free however little, that's cool!