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GeForce 9600GT Video Card

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The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 video card chip set is one of the newest form the trusted IT manufacturer NVIDIA. This is NVIDIA’s ninth generation chip set and is good for all of you video needs. This card uses the the most modern interface PCI-Express 2.0. And with NVIDIA SLI technology (not offered on all brand names) you double your performance just like have dual core in you your video processor. This chip set is offered by several different manufactures From names like Gigabyte, Sparkle galaxy and OCZ just to name a few. This is a very fast chip set, Games really love this chip set on all brand names runs games like COD4, Fallout Goty at high settings. Fans are known to be a little noisy on some brands, and the low profile versions are known to run hot so it would not hurt to add some more fans to your Computer case. Different versions of this card come with different memory configurations and core clocks, also available ports vary from card to card. The fan speed is controlled by the drives and therefore makes the Cards a little loud until the said drivers are loaded into the operating system.

Personally i believe this is a really good chip set that everyone can enjoy from gamers to video enthusiasts and developers, however, i would do my homework to make sure that you get the features you want if just selecting by the chip set

name alone you may not get some of the really cool features listed. I really thing the Open source community would really enjoy this chip set as well seeing as how NVIDIA has great support for LINUX. And don’t forget with being SLI ready you are really future proofing your hardware because when you feel like you don’t have the horse power you need just buy a another and slap it in your box and away you go.

Dual DVI Video Card Reviews

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A Dual DVI Video Card is a must-have for graphic designers, and an extremely useful device for any gamer, programmer, or anyone who wants more screen space for work or play. Dual DVI allows you to connect two monitors to the same video card, essentially making your computer workspace twice as big. You can play around with this in all sorts of ways, depending on the size and quality of the monitors you have. If you’re a web designer, one monitor could showcase website while the other is dedicated to coding. If your hobby is gaming, you can keep tabs on multiple points of view in your game, or have one window dedicated to chat. The possibilities are endless.

Some Sample Dual DVI Cards

Before beginning, let me state that dual DVI is quite common in most new video cards. It’s an easy hardware addition, and the two main video card manufacturers, ATI and nVidia, see no reason not to include it in their cards. That said, here are some reviews of various video cards.

Budget
Geforce 9600GT – Solidly below $80 and available at some stores for as low as $60, the Geforce 9600GT is considered by most reviewers to be the best video card for anyone building a computer on a budget. With a 256-bit memory bus an 512 Mb of DDR3 memory, this card still manages to hang with the best budget cards nowadays. Despite its nearly two years of age, it even beats out the recent GeForce GT 240, just released six months ago.

Mid-range
Radeon HD5750 – A step up, the HD5750′s main draw, aside from its exceptional performance for under $150, would have to be its DirectX11 capabilities. Arguably the cheapest card with DX11, this ensures that if you’re using your dual-monitor system for gaming, you’ll be able to keep this card through the next wave of high-end games including Aliens vs. Predator, Dirt 2, Civilization V, and Lord of the Rings Online. It’s not going to be able to let you choose the highest quality on these newer games, but it’ll perform well enough to get by.

High-end
Geforce GTX 275 – For just under $250, the Geforce GTX 275 is a competitive, impressive graphics card. It performs nearly the same as the higher-tier GTX 285, but at nearly $100 cheaper it is clearly the better value for designers and gamers who want the smoothest, crispest graphics at an attractive price. The only downside? It’s got two digital inputs and zero analog, meaning that if you don’t have digital monitors, you’ll have to go with a different card.