Reviews - XFX 9600 GSO XXX - mid-range monster or crippled competitor?

[HEXUS]

XFX has taken NVIDIA's artificially-constrained GeForce 9600 GSO 384MB and untethered the beast with increased clock-speeds.

Does it prove to be a mid-range monster or merely a crippled competitor?

Read on to find out.

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[Methanoid]

Not that I claim to have read every page (When will Hexus introduce the whole document on ONE page like Anandtech - makes for less page flipping) but no mention of Power Consumption. I believe ATI gives NVidia a serious whupping in that department. Does this require PCI-E power connector (4670 does not) ???

Was that missed from the review (like I said, not gonna page flip so many pages!) ??

[Tarinder]

So many pages? There are only 11.

Power-draw numbers were covered in a previous review, and you can find it at the following link:

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.ph...=15393&page=14

It sits somewhere between a Radeon HD 4670 and HD 3850.

[Hunkulus]

1 vote for CRIPPLE

[aldo]

I have just been the unlucky owner of an XFX 7900 GT XXX. It failed after 2 years and 2 months and XFX told me 'tough cheese' . I would strongly not recommend buying factory overclocked video cards.

[Agent]

Not that I claim to have read every page (When will Hexus introduce the whole document on ONE page like Anandtech - makes for less page flipping)

Its been there for years

Click the "printer friendly layout". You'll get a page without any of the fancy stuff, all as one. I use it all the time

[Agent]

I have just been the unlucky owner of an XFX 7900 GT XXX. It failed after 2 years and 2 months and XFX told me 'tough cheese' . I would strongly not recommend buying factory overclocked video cards.

You're lucky it lasted 2 years. Both of mine died within a few weeks....although in hindsight thats a good thing.

The failure rate for XFX cards is shocking

[Tarinder]

You're lucky it lasted 2 years. Both of mine died within a few weeks....although in hindsight thats a good thing.

The failure rate for XFX cards is shocking

This is interesting. Anyone else have XXX Edition cards die on them?

[Agent]

This is interesting. Anyone else have XXX Edition cards die on them?

Have a search in the scan forum - many people have has issues sadly . The 7XXX range from XFX was renowned for failing though, even their non OC'ed cards.

I can't speak for their newer models as I wouldn't buy from them again. More so when the one card that Scan RMA'ed back to them took over 2 weeks to get back to me (it had to go to XFX for repair). To put the icing on the cake, XFX took out all the bundled disks and DVI adaptors when sending it back.

[Methanoid]

Its been there for years

Click the "printer friendly layout". You'll get a page without any of the fancy stuff, all as one. I use it all the time

Ah, missed it.. same as Anandtech then.. except this one takes you to Signup for Trust

[aldo]

This is interesting. Anyone else have XXX Edition cards die on them?

Further on my experience with the 7900 GT XXX, on reflection I now realise that the card had been failing for several months before it actually was unusable with diagonal lines and solid blocks of colour flickering whilst playing games. I had put this down to the demands of the game being excessive. There were also a number of pixels of fixed colours which I put down to the kids damaging the lcd with their ball games. These pixels would create a trail of colours when your dragged a window across the screen. I have never had a graphics card fail on me so this was all new. So I guess the moral of the story is don't wait till the letters in the words in your bios are spelled incorrectly and parts of windows do not appear before applying for warranty as happened to me.