PC Stats - Biostar Geforce 9600GT 512MB Review

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Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 512MB Geforce 9600GT Videocard Review

In this review PCSTATS will be testing Biostar's V903GT52-NV1AN Geforce 9600GT, a reference card in every sense of the word. While the V903GT52-NV1AN may lack the extra HD ports and pre-overclocked tuning of Palit's 9600GT Sonic, Biostar's card is affordable, fairly quiet, and single slot.

The Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN retails for about $189 CDN ($190 USD, £110 GBP) and comes with the basic essentials, which is fine. I think most consumers would agree that it's better to pay less than have a couple bundled video games thrown in.

In contrast to the Palit 9600GT Sonic, Biostar has kept this Geforce 9600GT at the stock clock speeds for the Geforce 9600GT family. At its heart an nVidia GPU runs at 650MHz, its memory at 1800MHz, and the shader clock at 1625MHz. There's a lot to like about a mainstream videocard like the Geforce 9600GT, foremost that you don't need a pre-overclocked version. Overclock it yourself and squeeze a little more performance out of it with nTune, it's not hard.

Biostar's V903GT52-NV1AN videocard is equipped with 512MB of GDDR3 memory. Like all videocards from the nVidia Geforce 9-series, the 9600GT is DirectX10 and Shader Model 4.0 compliant. The GPU itself features 64 stream processors, and the card supports SLI, PCI Express 2.0 and is HDCP compliant.

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