• Galaxy 9600 Dual 512 MB XTreme Tuner Edition

    Galaxy 9600 Dual 512 MB XTreme Tuner Edition

    Jayesh Limaye, Jan 15, 2009 1419 hrs IST

    This 9600 GSO 512 MB comes with a core clock of 650 MHz and its memory is clocked at 900MHz.

    Good performance, Superb overclocking performance, Zalman cooler.

    Still uses the old 65 nm process, Only 48 shaders, A bit expensive.

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Mid-range cards are the bread-earners of the graphics cards companies and this is very much true as far as the budget-conscious market of India is concerned. We had tested a graphics card based on the GeForce 9600 GSO last year, but now, NVIDIA has released a newer variant of the chipset - GeForce 9600 GSO 512, and the graphics card being reviewed today is based on that chipset. The Galaxy 9600 Dual Xtreme Tuner 512MB is based on this chipset and made for those who do not want to spend much but still want to game. With a three-phase power supply, Galaxy has made every possible attempt to set it different from what it really is.






The Galaxy 9600 Dual Xtreme Tuner Edition comes with a core clock of 650 MHz and the memory is clocked at 900MHz. The card uses the Zalman cooler design, which is a beautiful aluminum heat sink.












While Galaxy is a big manufacturer and supplies cards to Europe and Asia, it distributes its cards in India via BIG Corporation. Let's take a look at the card and find out whether it is only the look that is different or is there a difference in its performance.
















The box is not really attractive. However, the sabre-tooth tiger logo over a blue background looks good. The specs of the card are visible on the right and also prominently advertised is the 3-Phase power supply on the board. It is also written that there is a "Free gift inside" and we wonder what it could be. We opened the box to have a look.






Bundle












Galaxy 9600 Dual 512MB XTreme Tuner Edition



Analog 3-way RCA HDTV connector



S-Video out cable



SPDIF audio cable



4-pin Molex to 6-pin PCI-E power converters



Quick installation guide



User manual



Xtreme Tuner user guide



Driver CD



XTreme Tuner CD



Gift ball-pen




It is quite odd that in these days of HD movies, and with HD displays fast gaining popularity, this card neither features an HDMI port, nor does it come with a DVI-to-HDMI dongle. Wake up Galaxy, this is 2009! Thankfully, they have taken care of backward compatibility by providing a DVI-to-VGA dongle to connect CRT monitors to the card. As the name of the product suggests, the bundle includes a CD of the Xtreme Tuner software to tweak the graphics card. Now for the "Free gift inside". Well, it's nothing but a pen!






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Mohammed saleem
,Thane-mumbai, on Jan 21, 2009 11:35 AM
sir, is it supportable to 865 intel mother bord,cpu 2.26gh,slot of agp,( im using nvidia gforce 5500 now0 IF YES pls send the prices and whre to get inmumbai.
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Sameer
,Mumbai, on Jan 21, 2009 07:55 PM
sorry to say sir, but it cannot be installed on your system because this needs PCI Express slot and you have AGP, you will need to upgrade your motherboard
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shamon
,coimbatore, on Jan 20, 2009 07:52 PM
9600 dual is superb card ,its better the 9600gt man ,what a card at that price ,crysis i can play in high resolution and its bundle software is superb.BIG going very agressive and best performing card.all the best big byte keep it up
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iCEMAN
,Mumbai, on Jan 20, 2009 01:34 AM
I got myself the Galaxy 9800 GTX Extreme Tuner n boy has it been a bundle of joy....been playin crysis at settings i wouldnt have dared 2 set otherwise...same goes for call of duty 4....if i need more all i gotta do if overclock it n give in some juice....m sure Galaxy 9600 would stand gud wid itz tuner function
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tarlok
,mumbai, on Jan 16, 2009 11:12 AM
Jayesh it is 2009 n not 2008..wake up buddy
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