Expert Reviews

  • …The HIS Excalibur 9600XT Turbo is a very good card, with stellar Direct X9 performance and superb overclocking ability. It was faster in most benchmarks than the Creative 5700 Ultra card we tested it against…
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  • …TOP Tech cooling design definitely does as it’s intended to do; even in the midst of benchmarks and overclocks, I had to put my ear near the card to actually hear any noise being generated. If you’re in the…
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  • …GPU core temperature monitoring capabilities. Obviously these are two major steps towards improved overclockability of the card and should prove to be quite interesting in the benchmark phases.
    This one was…
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  • …apart from the competition with a full blown silent cooling solution. Their version is quiet, overclocked and still able to delivering some nice gaming performance.
    What is generally the most exciting…
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  • …from their status as the Ferrari of graphics cards, however, especially when it comes to overclocking.
    Most graphics cards come with pictures of cars, scantily clad women or demons on the box. In…
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  • …, which increases the efficiency in accordingly lower loaded conditions.
    The CPU bids the option of overclocking the regular rate for one core from 1.6 GHz up to 2.8 GHz when not all cores are used or if maybe…
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User Reviews

  • …9500 Pro report back in my software as a 9700 Pro. Not wanting to lose this performer to heat from overclocking, I found a nice little aftermarket video chip cooler…the Vantec CCB-A4C which installed easily…
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  • …Recover” that allows the card to reset itself if it gets into a fatal snag with itself (listen up, overclockers) instead of taking your whole system down. This by and large borks whatever game you were…
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  • …supports AMD AMD® Socket AM2+ multi-core processors with unique L3 cache and delivers better overclocking capabilities with less power consumption. It features dual-channel DDR2 1066 memory support and…
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  • …a Radeon8500 128Mb, but honestly I’m glad I did. My system was getting rather dated composing of an overclocked XP1700 , AbitKT7Raid and an ElsaGladiacGTS32Mb. 3dMark2001SE score was a little over 4000 at…
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News Articles

  • … these cards are damn cheap and might even be soft-modded to ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. … The 9800SE will remain one mystery in the history of video cards. …
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  • Hi guys, I'm running an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro in an Athlon XP 2800+ / Asus A7N8X Deluxe … the kind you might see when overclocking your video card too high. …
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  • ATI has seen fit to simply refresh its current DX9 graphics card lineup this autumn. The incumbent Radeon 9600 Pro, which boasted a 400MHz core speed allied …
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  • … from the graphics card, there is one less ATI manufacturer in the field. … At the worst, you will get a Radeon 9600 performance with a TV Tuner and …
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  • The ATI Radeon 9600 Pro uses 128mb of Samsung memory on this card that is rated at 600 mhz. We found this out by looking up the model number off of …
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  • On October 1st we introduced two brand new video cards from ATI. … The predecessor to the Radeon 9600XT is the Radeon 9600Pro. That card is based on the …
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  • Currently, I'm looking to upgrade from my Powercolor ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256, … I'm no computer expert, and all my knowledge of video cards prior to now …
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  • Today we have their brand new ATI 9600 Pro based video card to test out, the Tachyon G9600 Pro. Should you wish to check out our original Radeon 9600 Pro …
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  • … standard GeForce 5700 graphics card, which competes against the ATI RADEON 9600 PRO. So long as you do not mind voiding the warranty and overclocking is …
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Blog Articles

  • I had the double-lifetime warranty, and I sold the card… could the new owner register the card again and have the double-lifetime warranty..or would they be stuck with two years? Basically, did I just screw myself over not registering …
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  • Originally Posted by Andy! View Post. i would go 5570 and if possible crossfire them i know a 9600 wont be able to handle BC 2 very well or at all …. AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE 3.8GHz, Motherboard MSI 790FX-GD70, Memory 8GB OCZ AMD BE DDR3 1600, Graphics Card ATI Radeon 4890 Toxic. Hard Drive 2 x 640GB WD Black RAID 0, Power Supply Corsair HX850, Case Lian Li Lancool PC-K62. CPU cooling. Corsair H50, OS Windows Vista HP 64, Monitor Samsung SyncMaster 24″ 2494HM …
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  • We all know that ATI’s board partners have been relatively fast to release custom versions of their HD 5000 series cards but very few have featured what could be called praise-worth clock speed increases. … A few hours ago, ASUS sent us some long-awaited information regarding the newest addition to their Republic of Gamers graphics card line and while we still don’t have a total understanding of actual performance, a clearer picture is beginning to emerge. …
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