ATI Technologies Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB DDR Video Adapter

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• Item Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000T70TU
• Item model number: 100-437100
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 14, 2003

Product Description

Product Description
Explore stunning new worlds of cinematic gameplay with the unprecedented combination of power, performance, and Microsoft DirectX 9 optimized support featured in RADEON 9600 family of visual processors. Maximize your long-term entertainment value with its Quad-pipe architecture and high precision cinematic shaders that will upgrade expectations for devoted gamers and casual fans alike - and push the most compelling next-generation games to their limit.Prepare yourself for cinematic levels of realism, backed by 128MB of DDR memory delivering barrier-free entertainment. Optimized Microsoft DirectX 9 support delivers jaw-dropping immersive gameplay, interactivity, and 3D environments in the most compelling next-generation games. Powered by the advanced rendering power of ATI's cinematic Visual Processing Unit (VPU), RADEON 9600 Series is designed to deliver long-term entertainment value.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BOOM, BABAY!!, November 26, 2004

By	Richard Rychetsky (Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have a 1.33GHz AMD DDR Athlon with 512Mb RAM. Slow by many standards. With my stock graphics card, playing online flight sims was a joke - even when I lowered the resolution to the 2nd-to-lowest position. So, I was flying a boxy plane and STILL couldn't get the frame rate to shoot anyone down.

Rather than look into a new computer, I gave this a try. Installation was a little tricky for someone as computer-illiterate as I am, but I did it all by myself (ie., if you know ANYTHING about these cards, then you're a step ahead of me).

Bottom line, I can now place my resolution settings to "High" and get ultra-smooth frame rates. If I bump it up to "Highest" the frame rate is a little slower, but still better than what I had with my stock card and "Low " settings before.

I was told that this card is the best for your buck and has a really nice clock speed compared to many other cards (even 256MB cards).

Get this one while the gettin's good.

rich

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Corrections, June 14, 2004

By	Karuna (Heidelberg, Germany) - See all my reviews

Wow, okay. There's just a little bad information going on here. :) First of all, the 9600XT is hands-down, without-a-doubt the best graphics card you can buy for the money right now. considering that the 9700Pro (what, a year ago now?) whipped the pants off the GF Ti4600, I think the reveiwer below might want to reconsider his installation steps (removed your old drivers? firmware updates? stop using synthetic benchmarks?) you obviously are missing something-- check benchmarks on any reputable online reviewer (*cough* hardocp.com *cough*). Surely you're not suggesting you run FarCry/UT2K4 on a Ti4600 with no problems? *smirk*

Really, I can't believe I saw this card with a 3 1/2 rating. It really does deserve better. No, it's not going to beat an X800XT (neither will anything else right now), but then again it doesn't cost $450-$500. Show me a better card in this price range. I guarantee you Nvidia doesn't make one. Maybe someday, but right now ATi owns the top and the middle of the market, and they deserve it.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great deal for gamers on a budget, February 19, 2005

By	B. Lee "Zombie Troubadour" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I didn't really have a chance to shop around and had to choose between this, a X800, or a nVidia 6800GT, that was it. Given my income and rig (a P4 2.4) i didn't think bleeding edge was what the doctor ordered, so I said what the hell and ditched the old GF ti4600.

Well, ho-lee crap, what's that about an average 67fps in Half-Life 2 with all detail settings turned up, 4XAA, 8XAF @ 1024x768? MORE than happy with those numbers for the price. How about Doom3 at 800x600 detail medium-high at steady above 60fps? Not too bad for a 2 year old rig.

The Catalyst software suite is very nice, though since nVidia also makes great drivers these days it's kind of a moot point. One thing to note, using ATI's Overdrive utility I have experienced some system hangs, particularly in HL2. Switched to Powerstrip and now I've got it lethally Oc'd on factory cooling and stable as a coffeetable... go figure.

In short, this card will run any of the current gen of games well enough for 99.9% of gamers. With full DX9 compatability, it's even got a shot at next-gen titles. Highly overclockable, well-priced, and reliable as can be. Great buy!