9600gso -> Upgrade?

pigwalk

pigwalk

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Had a 8800gt, sold it, stuck with a 7200gs for a few months, which was horrible and eventually got a 9600gso which I've been VERY surprised with. Great performance for what ended up being a 45 dollar card. Starting to notice a little sluggishness here and there, so it's looking to be upgrade time.

Want to keep it around 150ish range. PSU has 20a+22a=365w on the 12v. One thing I'm worried about, I run a Thermaltake Tsunami case. The 8800gt and 9600gso were already pretty tight in there (9.5 inches I believe?), I don't think I'll be able to fit anything much larger without removing the HDD cage and that's not something I want to do. Game at 16x10, whole plethora of stuff, and I'm not a fps nazi, dips are inevitable for 150 bucks. What the deal?
 
with that cpu there isnt much point in going with a much stronger card. certainly anything more than a 9800gt would be mostly wasted.
 
Brampton_Boy said:
Look to see whether you card can be soft modded into a 8800gts 512.
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Unfortuntately only the Galaxy 9600gso's couldn't be modded, and those weren't sold in the US :(.

Want something a few notches faster for the time being. And then it'll go into the next build, which should be in the works for jan-feb.
 
Right now I'm running the E8400 system in my sig using a spare 8800GS and running 16x12. Everything maxed out in games and not a stutter. Your 9600GSO = 8800GS. Consider a mobo / CPU upgrade as you've hit the same ceiling I did with my AMD socket 939 system. An upgrade will be a waste as you'll see relatively little gain.

Then you can wait a while and save up for a video upgrade.

In the meantime try overclocking the card a bit.
 
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