Time for Nv to upgrade driver. 9800GTX sli test & 9800GTS 2GB

[Monkeywoman]

source; http://www.unihw.com/html/36/n-136.html

[BullGod]

Well specs are not everything you know. Look at the 9600. These cards will probably surprise everyone.

[Scyphe]

Well specs are not everything you know. Look at the 9600. These cards will probably surprise everyone.

Well, they sure surprised many with the sneaky "overclocking-via-the-PCIe-bus-without-reflecting-it-in-drivers-or-tools"-function it incorporated which caused many review cards to be unstable and fail even simple overclocks (since they were already overclocked by 10-15% depending on the current PCIe-clock). In essense they're shrunk, overclocked and very slightly tweaked 8600GTS's (or practically half a G92 8800GTS). If they hadn't cheated with that PCIe-bus clock trick the 9600GT would be a compelling mid-range card right below the 8800GT. As it is it feels shoddy to me. In fact, the whole 9-series feels kind of unnecessary since they're essentially G92's. They should've used a different nomenclature like 8900GT/GTS/GTX or something, not jumped to series-9 because they're not a generation ahead, just slight updates (shrinks, higher clocks) of G92's.