GeForce 9500 GT 512MB

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my sons video card is dying. He currently has a geforce 7600gt. All he plays is WoW and battlefront (old but one of the best games). Would spending $60 for a PNY be worth it?
 
As a slightly better replacement, yeah. $30AR is a good deal. There are several much better cards for ~$80 if he wants to play better games in the future and you don't upgrade often.
 
Red Falcon said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121314

$10 more and WAY more powerful card! The 9500GT sux and isn't even worth it.
This coming from a guy who owned two of them. ;)
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actually its 25 bucks more and doesnt have free shipping. in the end that card is over twice the price of the 9500gt. thats also just a 48sp 9600gso so not quite that big of a jump except for the 256bit memory. anyway the rest of that pc may be so old that anything more than a 9500gt could be a waste anyway.
 
cannondale06 said:
actually its 25 bucks more and doesnt have free shipping. in the end that card is over twice the price of the 9500gt. thats also just a 48sp 9600gso so not quite that big of a jump except for the 256bit memory. anyway the rest of that pc may be so old that anything more than a 9500gt could be a waste anyway.
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But the 9500GT he listed is $59.99 w/ free shipping.

The 9600GSO is $54.99 after the rebate. After shipping it will be about $8 more.

The 9600GSO is actually quite a bit faster (48sp version). The memory bandwidth is huge over the 9500GT (51.7GB/s vs 12.8GB/s). Even this version of the 9600GSO is going to be about 2-3x faster than that shitty 9500GT at almost any res past 1024x768.

In STALKER Clear Sky, with two 1GB 9500GT's in SLI I got 17fps and with one only 11fps on my settings. With a 48sp 9600GSO I got 27fps with the same settings.

So yeah, for about $6-10 more, I would get the 9600GSO. :)


EDIT: Where did you get the $25 more from? Even without the rebate it's only about $18 more at most (this price includes shipping).
 
Red Falcon said:
But the 9500GT he listed is $59.99 w/ free shipping.

The 9600GSO is $54.99 after the rebate. After shipping it will be about $8 more.

The 9600GSO is actually quite a bit faster (48sp version). The memory bandwidth is huge over the 9500GT (51.7GB/s vs 12.8GB/s). Even this version of the 9600GSO is going to be about 2-3x faster than that shitty 9500GT at almost any res past 1024x768.

In STALKER Clear Sky, with two 1GB 9500GT's in SLI I got 17fps and with one only 11fps on my settings. With a 48sp 9600GSO I got 27fps with the same settings.

So yeah, for about $6-10 more, I would get the 9600GSO. :)


EDIT: Where did you get the $25 more from? Even without the rebate it's only about $18 more at most (this price includes shipping).
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either Im crazy or I dont understand your math. the 9500gt he linked to will be will be $29.99 after rebate and free shipping. the 9600gso you linked to will be $54.99 after rebate BUT doesnt have free shipping for a total of over 60 bucks when all said and done. that makes it over twice the price just like a said. also benchmarks mean little at this point since he could easily have a P4 in that system. I used a 9600gt and an 8600gt in my old system with a 5000x2 and at 1280x1024 the 9600gt certainly wasnt twice as fast. with a better cpu and/or at higher res then yes it easily would have been. the slower 48sp 9600gso will certainly not be 2 to 3 times as fast if used in outdated system with a slow cpu.
 
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cannondale06 said:
either Im crazy or I dont understand your math. the 9500gt he linked to will be will be $29.99 after rebate and free shipping. the 9600gso you linked to will be $54.99 after rebate BUT doesnt have free shipping for a total of over 60 bucks when all said and done. that makes it over twice the price just like a said. also benchmarks mean little at this point since he could easily have a P4 in that system. I used a 9600gt and an 8600gt in my old system with a 5000x2 and at 1280x1024 the 9600gt certainly wasnt twice as fast. with a better cpu and/or at higher res then yes it easily would have been. the slower 48sp 9600gso will certainly not be 2 to 3 times as fast if used in outdated system with a slow cpu.
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@_@

omg, I totally didn't see the rebate on the other card. wow, I feel smart! :p

Oh well. Yeah, I agree about his CPU, if it's a P4, the 9500GT will be more than fine.
 
I agree on the 9500GT being an awesome value, but there's one possible issue:

What motherboard chipset does he have? Early PCIe boards (1.0a or earlier) are not known to play nicely with PCIe 2.0 cards. They might work, and they might not. Unfortunately, the PCI SIG completely screwed the pooch on the 1.0 specification, and only fixed things to work properly with the future in-mind on version 1.1.
 
what does the rest of the pc look like?
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He is only 8 so he doesnt have a great PC. I bought him this along time ago. No need to upgrade since i dont let him play M rated games.

CPU is an AMD Sempron 3000 socket 754

I cant remember the exact motherboard, but i know it has an onboard nvidia 6200 which is what he is using now since the 7600 died.
 
jdl said:
He is only 8 so he doesnt have a great PC. I bought him this along time ago. No need to upgrade since i dont let him play M rated games.

CPU is an AMD Sempron 3000 socket 754

I cant remember the exact motherboard, but i know it has an onboard nvidia 6200 which is what he is using now since the 7600 died.
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Oh yeah, the 9500GT will be MORE than adequate.
 
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