Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Monthly Hardware Bang For Your Buck

I think I am going to start up a monthly (maybe weekly eventually) post where I put up a graphics card, motherboard, PSU etc. that is cheap and good at the same time. Before I put up this months "hardware bang for you buck" I would just like to say that my favorite place to buy hardware is Umart Online www.umart.com.au (i'm Australian hence the Australian pricing and websites)
Ok so Novembers hardware "bang for your buck" is the MSI Geforce 9600GT (512MB DDR3)
Just to get an idea on how good this card is it can run Crysis on full at a resolution of 1680x1050 (22" screen) at a playable framerate. It can also run Call of Duty 4 an Full Graphics at the same resolution with an average of 35 FPS. On Unreal Tournament III with graphics set on full at the same resolution it got an average of 45 FPS.


Features:
  • NVIDIA unified architecture
  • Full Microsoft DirectX 10 Support
  • NVIDIA SLI Technology
  • PCI Express 2.0 Support
  • Giga Thread Technology
  • 128-bit floating point High Dynamic-Range (HDR) Lighting
  • NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology
  • NVIDIA ForceWare unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
  • OpenGL 2.1 Optimizations and Support
  • Dual Stream Decode Acceleration
  • 16x Anti-aliasing Technology
  • Edge Enhancement
  • Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
  • Dual Dual-link DVI Support
  • NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology
  • Discrete, Programmable Video Processor
  • HDCP Capable
  • High-Quality Scaling
  • Integrated SD and HD TV Output
Price: AU$138.00 (http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=82&bid=2&sid=32786) This is the cheapest I have seen this card but if you have seen it for cheaper please post a comment with a link (remember all prices are Australian and are in Australian dollars)

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