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Galaxy 9600GT Low Profile Low Power Review

by MrK on May.05, 2009, under Articles, News, Technology

Conclusion

To say that I underestimated Galaxy 9600GT would be an understatement in itself. Barring a few games, this card managed to keep up or close to the faster 9800 GT when it was overclocked. The main use of this card would be for casual gamers or budget gamers playing at a resolution of 1280×1024 or 1440×900 and for a HTPC that needs to have decent gaming capabilities. For those purposes this card is perfect, providing smooth gameplay  in almost all games except the most demanding – i.e. Crysis Warhead and Clear Sky.  Gamers could sacrifice a few quality settings and AA to get smoother gameplay in these and other games, if desired.

Galaxy has taken a good mainstream video card with a good price to performance ratio, and made it smaller, removing the power connector and giving their customers a  better price to performance and features ratio than before.

Pros-

Single Slot

Quiet Cooler even at full load

No external power connector

Perfect card for PhysX

Cons-

Cooler exhausts air into the case


We are happy to give this card Alien Babel Tech “Great Value” Award.

great value Galaxy 9600GT Low Profile Low Power Review

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4 comments for this entry:
  1. Roger

    Hi. I think this is a great looking card. I would love to put in my machine (acer small form desktop, amd dual core, 4gb ddr2) But I worry about power load because my machine has a teeny tiny 220watt psu. I can’t and don’t want to upgrade because the psu is a proprietary acer form that I cant upgrade easily. It sucks.

    What would I risk trying this card on my machine? How can I find out if this would be suitable for my situation? Thanks and great review!!

  2. MrK

    I think it should be fine

  3. Roger

    Update:

    Just got this card, put it in my small form Acer. It’s very snug and it gets really hot, but it seems to work fine. I drilled some extra holes in the case, but maybe I need some more. Right now it’s idling at 61 C after cooling off from a short time under load where it reached 80 C. I don’t know if this is normal or not. No crashes yet, but I guess I’ll continue to baby it a bit.

    Thanks for this great article!

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