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MSI N9600GT ZILENT review |
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Written by Димитър Динчев a.k.a. Veseliq
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Page 2 - MSI N9600GT ZILENT in pictures
As usual we begin with the less significant stuff - packaging an bundle. MSI offer their products in traditionally exuberant boxes, with rich bundle - usually including one one more original games, or at least that's the impression made on to us here in ModReactor, after all the tests of their products. Well, this time for better or worse, besides a driver CD there isn't any other free software. Of course you get all the necessary power cables, adapters, manuals and so on, and as for the box design - it's rather a personal point of view, should you choose to call it beautiful...
And now, the card itself ...
The PCB is non-referent and red coloured at that, just like all MSI videocards. You had you first glance at the ZALMAN cooler, and it does deserve few more words... For starters - it's completely silent. Second thing is, as to now we have never seen such low temperatures from a GeForce 9600 GT based card! Under load according to the integrated sensor the temperature was 44-45 degrees centigrade tops. Not that G94 it that hot or something, but c'mon, a mere 20 degrees above room temperature, thats just amazing considering the complexity of microelectronic elements nowadays.
And still the ZALMAN cooler has it's drawbacks - the memory isn't covered ad does get quite hot. Knowing that the the chips are with double amount of memory (128MB for each chip instead of 64MB) and being GDDR3 type, the more well informed of you are already foresee the bad memory overclock results of the card. That's right, bad, but we'll get to that later in the review.
