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Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3 Graphics Card Review

Desktop PC Hardware — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:43:43 +0000

Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3

This time Manli released their new product the Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3 to enable them compete in the mainstream market. This graphic card is using the 9600 GT chipset which had been downgraded on the stream processor from 96 core to 48 core but with overclocked core and memories.

This graphic card is already equipped with Artic Cooling HSF to overcome the heat during workload. Unfortunately it doesn’t come with steel holder to keep the graphic card straight. The effect is that the graphic card looks a bit bended, eventhough it doesn’t interfere with its performance.

The card is stable enough at testing. Chip magazine tried to test it by playing Company of Heroes with 1024 x 768 screen resolution. It can be said that the card could play the game at medium setting.

Arctic Cooling HSF

Looking at the test results it can be said the card is quick. Eventhough it only has 48 Streaming Processors the overclocking did quite an effect and overall it offers a very good performance. Another testing using CUDA shows a good performance that would make it suitable for playing with images with Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Conclusion:
The Manli Geforce 9600OC 512MB GDDR3 is a card with good performance. A good choice for its class and it comes with very good HSF.

Specifications:
Chip: NVIDIA Geforce 9600OC ™
Interface: PCI Express x16
Memori: 512 MB
Core Clock: 650 MHz
Memory Clock: 900 MHz
Shadder: 1625 Mhz
HDTV output: Available
DVI output: Available
HDMI output: Not Available
Jenis Memory: GDDR3
Memory interface: 256-bit
Package: Quick Guide, CD Driver, HDMI Donggle, DVI, Donggle, SPDIF, PCI Converter

Benchmark:
3DMarks Vantage : P4175
Company of Heroes DX9: 59.8
Company of Heroes DX10: 33.7
F.E.A.R.: 143
Quake 4: 155.7

This product is tested with this testbed system:
Mainstream Mobo: MSI P35-NEO2 FIR
Extreme Mobo: ASUS Maximus
ATI Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD3870
NVIDIA Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT
Memory: Corsair DDR2-PC6400, DDR2-PC8500, DDR3
Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200RPM, Raptor
Power Supply: Tagan 700W, 800W, 1100W
Flash Memory: Kingston UFD, SDHC, SD, MicroSD, CF
Keyboard & Mouse: Genius USB, optical
Optical Drive: AOpen DVD-RW 2012S
Cooling System: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7Pro/64Pro dan Accelero X1/X2

source CHIP Magazine.

AMD/ATI Beats Nvidia to the 1 GHz GPU Milestone

Desktop PC Hardware — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:04:08 +0000

An interesting news we found about the ATI vs nVidia graphic card race. Here’s the complete story

AMD boasted today that it has delivered the world’s first 1 GHz GPU. Is this a new product? Not exactly.

What AMD has done is that it has taken an ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card, which normally runs at 850 MHz, and overclocked it to 1 GHz at the factory – air cooled – and voila, you have yourself the world’s first shipping 1 GHz GPU part.

In fact, if you had your own Radeon HD 4890, you might be able to reach 1 GHz too. Of course, AMD does have the advantage of binning parts to make sure that those with the most headroom get separated for this new SKU.

The flip side of that equation also means that any GPUs that aren’t able to hit the 1 GHz mark on just air cooling will be relegated to just the old “regular” pile, which will cap speeds at which the Radeon HD 4890 will run.

Look out for these juiced up video cards from Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, Gecube, Gigabyte, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), ITC, Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, Sapphire Technology and XFX.

Stay tuned for our hands on with one of these cards where we’ll put it up against a ‘vanilla’ reference board.

Interestingly enough, this is the second time that AMD has beat an arch rival to the 1 GHz milestone. Back in 2000, AMD beat Intel to the 1 GHz punch with its Athlon. Remember that? Take a trip with us down memory lane as we look back on Chris Angelini’s review of the AMD Athlon 1 GHz during his more innocent and much younger days.

source: Tom’s Hardware US

PixelView GF 9500GT 1 GB GDR2 128 BIT Graphics Card Review

Desktop PC Hardware — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:15:30 +0000

The PixelView GF 9500GT 1 GB GDR2 128 BIT comes with a generic documentation, but the documentation within the driver CD is much more comprehensive. Besides giving an instruction of how to install the card physically, it also gives how to use the nVidia control panel, the rest within the CD is DirectX 9c.

The features and the performance this card gives is not too special compared to others alike, but this card could be maximized for watching HD films that runs on HD 1080p. While testing, there were no film that had a jagged effect displayed.

PixelView GF 9500GT 1 GB GDR2 128 BIT

The results for this graphic card is satisfying and could compete evenly with rivals in its class. The 1 GB memory feels to be too much as other cards of this type could already runs very well with 512 MBs of memory.

The HSF which comes with the card have done the job very well, but it’s supported by two holder pins. So, becareful when you try to install in on a PC.

Conclusion:
If you’re choosing this card for its 1 GB of memory then it would be an unwise choice, but with its low price and performance this card is very acceptable. Unfortunately Prolink didn’t shipped the card with a stronger supporting pins.

Pros:

Cheap price

Cons:

Minimum documentation

Benchmark Results:
3DMarks Vantage : P1471
Company of Heroes DX9: 48.9
Company of Heroes DX10: 17.2
F.E.A.R.: 68
Quake 4: 74.1

Source CHIP Magazine

ECS GF 9500GT 512MB GDR3 128 BIT Graphics Card Review

Desktop PC Hardware — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:37:03 +0000

This ECS graphics card combines 32 stream processors within the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT GPU with 512 MB DDR3 memory. Ecs uses the Qimonda chip for these memories. This kind of chip is known for their overclocking capabilities.

HSF for this graphics card is very standard. It’s small and doesn’t look like other heavy-duty HSF. The SPD/IF connector for this graphic card is located at the left side of the SLI slot. Around the GPU you could see 4 pieces of DDR3 memories on each side of the card.

ECS GeForce 9500gt

Eventough the package comes with standard contents, the documentary is quite informative. Presented in four different languages the documentary also includes the way to install the card properly, how to install the SPD/IF, and the driver instalation.

The testing with games and 3DMark Vantage concluded that this graphic card is able to deliver a very good performance in its class. The HSF even though quite small does a very good job in cooling it down, even at its maksimum payload.

SPD/IF connector

In the overcloking test, the score is quite satisfiying. The core clock could be raised up to 600 MHz from the original 550 MHz. The memory clock could also be raised from 1600 MHz to 1650 MHz. The result is the performance increases by 10 percents.

Conclusion:
The product is an example of a graphic card suitable for HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer), especially because it provides an HDMI output. The performance itself is very good, and can play older games with quite high details.

Spesifications:
Chip: NVIDIA Geforce 9500GT™
Interface: PCI Express x16
Memori: 512 MB
Core Clock: 550 MHz
Memory Clock: 1600 MHz
Shader: 1375 Mhz
HDTV output: Available
DVI output: Available
HDMI output: Available
Jenis Memory: GDDR3
Memory interface: 128-bit
Package: Quick Guide, CD Driver, HDMI Converter, DVI Converter, SPD/IF

Benchmark:
3DMark Vantage : P1991
Company of Heroes DX9: 53.3
Company of Heroes DX10: 28.2
F.E.A.R.: 78
Quake 4: 89.1

The product is tested with the following testbed system:
Mainstream Mobo: MSI P35-NEO2 FIR
Extreme Mobo: ASUS Maximus
ATI Graphics: Sapphire Radeon HD3870
NVIDIA Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT
Memory: Corsair DDR2-PC6400, DDR2-PC8500, DDR3
Hard Disk: Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200RPM, Raptor
Power Supply: Tagan 700W, 800W, 1100W
Flash Memory: Kingston UFD, SDHC, SD, MicroSD, CF
Keyboard & Mouse: Genius USB, optical
Optical Drive: AOpen DVD-RW 2012S
Cooling System: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7Pro/64Pro dan Accelero X1/X2

source CHIP Magazine