Should the
GTX 280 be a bit too rich for your blood, NVIDIA's lookin' out. Introduced (and reviewed) today, the PCIe 2.0-compatible
GeForce 9500 GT checks in a few bucks south of $100 depending on where you go and provides a 550MHz core clock, 1,400MHz shader clock, 32 stream processors, 800MHz memory clock, 256MB / 512MB of RAM and twin dual-link DVI ports. Assuming the specifications meet your standards, you're probably curious about performance. Based on the first reviews, it was found to be "measurably faster than the
Radeon HD 3650, and pretty much on par with the
GeForce 8600 GTS." For under a C-note, it's a solid buy for those okay with being a few steps behind, and HTPC builders will find the low power consumption, quiet operation and small size to be quite appealing. Check out the links below for pages upon pages of in-depth coverage.
Read - Introduction, benchmarks and review
Read - Benchmarks, images and another review
posted Jul 29th 2008 11:10AM
You can get 8800 GT love for under $100.
...oh wait. (forget what i said)
...no, 8800 GT love, is still better.
What is a 8800 GT 'love'? Is it a pink colored 8800 GT?
No, Dillon, it's the wonder of nature called SLI. One day your parents will tell you all about it.
You can get a Radeon 3850 for under $100, and it will run circles around this sad card. 8800GT will beat it, but this is far from an 8800GT.
Rick - I lol'd.
Here you go, sub 100 9600GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261002
Even Better, 9600 for $99!
http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3876579&CatId=3585
The 9600 GT/GSO looks pretty cool, but I don't really think its fair to compare the discounted and rebated price of one card to the MSRP of another, unless you really need to buy a card today. If you wait a few months, the 9500GT will also be disounted and rebated, and most likely < $70.
The 9600 is worth it.
testing
Did you hear about nvidia's 'gaza experiment'? they took some unbiased uninformed users and gave them a notebook with a G86 chip and none of them complained about the chips failing after 10 minutes, that shows again how people get influenced by what they hear from fellow users and daft journalists and lawyers and experts and dell support hotlines instead of listening to salespeople, that are trustworthy.
Troll. Don't you have anything better to do?
Troll? I'm amusing people with sense, and engadget staff, that's not the same as trolling, and I think bringing humour is a great way to spend your time.
It's a much better use than writing long post to support an imaginary friend called MS too I might add
I'm proud to be voted low by MS fanboys.
I got one of these over 2 months ago via a cock up by Medion.
Such a powerful card for its price range. I can run TF2 with everything full (aa, fsaa, motion blur) at 1680 and have a steady 40 - 50 fps
Its amazing how good such a cheap card can be.
"I got one of these over 2 months ago via a cock up by Medion."
Umm... what?
Yes, do tell us more about this cock up.
Apparently I need to live in a country that uses the phrase "cock up"...or just purchase more from Medion.
Basically I bought something very similar to this:
http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md8393/uk/flash.html
From them a long time ago. I made a topic on neowin about the gfx card as I couldn't find a price comparison to see what its real worth was, and was total it wasn't out yet.
I don't usually buy pre-made PC's, but they do some really powerful yet cheap computers. Blu-ray, 500GB, Good graphics, Quad core with a stylish LG cash for £500? Can't go wrong.
That website has an ALDI logo on it.
In the USA, ALDI is a low-end sketchy grocery store chain. No wonder you experienced a "cock up" buying a PC at the grocery store.
maybe he likes having cock up....
lol ALDI? are you serious?
lol, they dont even have shelves in their store.
At least in the US, ALDI's is where you go to get the very lowest prices on groceries. They save money by making their stores not accept credit cards, having wood paneling as walls, really low lighting, not bagging your stuff for you, making you buy your own bags, just putting the stuff out in the aisle that they shipped in, and you have to put a quarter in to get a cart.
Why in the world would you buy a computer from there?
1) why would you buy a computer from ANY grocery store?
2) why would you buy it from the cheapest grocery store?
I never had someone else bag my stuff at a supermarket, I'm not handicapped or 92 though.
Jason, it's called a "discounter" for the exact reason.
The philosophy behind discounters is, for every brand product on the "shelf" there should be 3+ other no brand competitive products. They save money for no shelves, no storage (what you see is what they have on stock), and changing products from day to day, what they have in stock today, may not be available anytime soon.
I don't know how the product quality is in USA in those discounters, but here in Europe you can find some really nice products so cheap that you can't even imagine (speaking of food). Of course I wouldn't buy any hardware there, but I guess it's nothing wrong, they buy up some stock from Medion and sell it, it isn't anything of lower quality, it's just that they buy in masses and can afford to sell it cheap for that few days they have it in stock in all their stores.
And of course there's also tons of crap products, like everywhere.
All in all, I think it's fine that those stores exist, you really can save a lot on money for good or better quality food as you buy in a normal store for shit loads of money.
I had a geforce 2 with 64MB ram for years, it was like a super card. it out performed any new card i bought, every time no matter the new card was. The last try before it died was comparing it to a geforce 4 256MB card.
The 64MB card ran Doom 3 and Far Cry without flinching!
Eventually the fan on it quit and the card soon followed after I tried desperately to saddle on a new fan that didn't quite fit.
I see they have the intertubes at the retirementhous nowadays.
man, you should setup a shrine or something for that geforce 2.
It was probably a Geforce 4 MX then, which was basically a higher clocked Geforce 2 without programmable shaders or anything.
Few steps behind? Man I JUST got a ATI Radeon HD 3650 and this performer better for cheaper? This is like the immigrant worker of GPUs.
um nevermind a 9500GT, why didn't you get the $99 Sapphire 3850 that's be out for a while now?
You're still the juggernaut, BITCH!
What is a TF2? Why are people so lazy?
It stands for Team Fortress 2. All you had to do was pop it into Google to see what it meant.
TF2 = Team Fortress 2.
Shane, if people are so lazy, and then you're too lazy to look up what it stands for, but then you go ahead and Google it anyways, then come back here to post to yourself that all you have to do is Google it..... who the hell are you criticizing...
It's Team Fortress 2. Perhaps you're the lazy one in not trying to find out what TF2 means.
Sigh, don't believe these liars, Shane. TF2 stands for "Transistor Functionality 2" for the second generation of this technology. Means really really good.
Tooth Fairy 2
Treet Fighter 2
I have a 9500 GS in my asus laptop right now. It's decent.
Yeah but...can it play Crysis?
No. No it cannot.
Sweet.
Nice what a bit of competition from the red team can do for prices and product choice.
So Twin Dual Link DVI ports.... Does that mean you can drive 4 monitors with the single card?
I have 3 VGA monitors on my work computer and it is currently running off of a PCI-E video card and a PCI video card (and it doesnt work all that great).
The computer I'm using only has 1 PCI-E slot so I'm very limited to what i can use. Would love to be able to run all 3 monitors off of 1 video card (and maybe add a 4th).
well a cheap card for a new casual gamer pc. not bad but 8800 GT would be a better choice
We have had 2 HP desktops for 2 weeks which had 9500 cards in them. Both were having fan issues by the end of the second day - and were not doing what we wanted them to do anyway. Replaced both with 9800GTs.
Now if you really want to benchmark one - install CUDA drivers and see how many PPD you can get in Folding@Home with one. I almost bet it has to be lower than an 8600GTS.
you can get a 8600gts 512 for 70 bucks
or an 8800 GS for $80.
Or an 8800 GS for $80. Incredible improvement for just $10.